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Rupee 1 and Eupee | respectively be deducted from their pay for 

 every day of absence. 



That an additional Taxidermist or Assistant be employed tem- 

 porarily at a monthly charge not exceeding 30 Rs. and that a Mistri 

 be employed regularly at wages not exceeding Rs. 10 per mensem. 



Confirmed. 



Communications were received — 



1. From Mr. Assistant Oldfield sending copy of a Meteorological 

 Register kept at the Office of the Secretary to the Government of 

 the N. W. Provinces Agra, for the month of December last. 



2. From the Government of India through Colonel Birch, Se- 

 cretary in the Military Department, forwarding copies of reports 

 by Messrs. H. Schlagintweit on the proceedings of the Magnetic 

 Survey. 



3. From Baboo Radhanath Sickdar, forwarding an abstract of the 

 Meteorological Observations taken at the Office of the Surveyor 

 General in the month of December last. 



The Librarian submitted his usual monthly report for the month 

 of February last. 



Mr. R. Jones then exhibited a Wheatstone's Gyroscope (a mo- 

 dification of Foucault's Gyroscope.) 



Mr. Jones explained the mechanism of the instrument and per- 

 formed some experiments by means of it. 



On the motion of the President the thanks of the Meeting 

 were voted to Mr. Jones for his interesting exhibition. 



Libeaey. 



The library received the following accessions during the month of 

 February. 



Presented. 



Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government. 



No. I.— Report on the plan of Survey and Assessment for Khandesh.— 

 By the Goveenment of Bombay. 



Ditto No. II. — On ditto ditto for Rutnagherry. — By the Same. 



Ditto No. III. — On the Zillah of Rarochee. — By the Same. 



Ditto No. IV. — On the Village Communities of Deccan. — By the Same. 



Ditto No. V. — On the Badamee and Bagulkote Talooks, Belgaum Col- 

 lectorate. — By the Same. 



