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2. Announcing that they have appointed the following Sub- 

 committees — 



Finance. — C. Beadon, Esq. and Dr. T. Boycott. 



Philology. — A. Grote, Esq., E. A. Samuells, Esq., Bev. J. Long, 

 and E. E. Hall, Esq. 



library. — Dr. H. Walker, E. A. Samuells, Esq., W. Grapel, Esq., 

 Babu Barnapersad Boy, and Major Sfcrachey. 



Natural History. — Dr. G. G. Spilsbury, T. Oldham, Esq., Dr. 

 H. Walker, Dr. T. Thomson, Dr. T. Boycott, Mr. E. A. Samuells, 

 Captain C. B. Young, and Major Strachey. 



Communications were received — 



1. Erom Babu Eadhanath Sikdar, forwarding abstracts of the 

 Meteorological Kegister kept at the Office of the Surveyor-General, 

 Calcutta, for the months of October and November last. 



2. Erom Mr. Asst. Secy. Oldfield, enclosing copy of a Meteoro- 

 logical Begister kept at the Office of the Secretary to the Govern- 

 ment of the N. W. Provinces, Agra, for the month of November 

 last. 



3. Erom the Government of India, through Col. Birch, Secretary 

 in the Military Department, forwarding a copy of the report by Mr. 

 A. Schlagintweit on the proceedings of the Magnetic Survey in the 

 Himalaya Mountain and in Western Thibet, from May to November, 

 1856, and that of Messrs. H. and B. Schlagintweit, on the same 

 subject, from July to September, 1856. 



4. Erom the Governor- General in Council, through Mr. Edmon- 

 stone, Secretary to the Government of India, a copy of an account of 

 the mountain district forming the western boundary of the Lower 

 Derajat, commonly called Boh, with notices of the tribes inhabiting 

 it, by Lieut. H. G. Baverty, 3rd Begt. B. N. L 



5. Erom Capt. B. J. Leigh, Senior Assistant Commissioner to 

 the Commander of Chota Nagpore, Notes on Jumeera Pat in 

 Sirgooja, Chota Nagpore. 



6. Erom Dr. Anderson, Oude Contingent, on the Indian species 

 of the genus Lycium. 



The Librarian submitted his usual monthly reports for December 

 and January last. 



Dr. Thomson read two reports from the Messrs. Schlagintweit of 



