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Babu Joygopaul Bysack, duly proposed and seconded at the 

 last meeting, was balloted for and declared elected. 



The following gentlemen were named for ballot at the next meet- 

 ing :— 



Dr. W. C. B. Eatwell proposed by Dr. Thomson and seconded by 

 Dr. Boycott. 



Bajah Prasiinonath Bai Bahadur, of Degaputtee in Eajshahye, 

 proposed by Mr. Grote, and seconded by Mr. Atkinson. 



The council submitted a report announcing that they had elected 

 the Venerable Archdeacon Pratt a member of their body in the 

 place of Dr. Walker, who had proceeded to Europe, and that they 

 had added the names of Dr. Boer and Mr. Cowell to the Philological 

 Committee, and that of Mr. Blanford to the Committee of Natural 

 History. 



Babu Bajendralal Mitra exhibited an Indo-Scythian gold coin 

 with a Greek legend of the type figured by Professor Wilson in the 

 Ariana Antigua (Plate XIV. fig. 2) but differing in the figure on 

 the reverse having a javelin in the right hand and a sword in the 

 left instead of the sword alone. The legend is Mtopo and not Mupo 

 as in Professor Wilson's coin. The name of the king (Gorki) on 

 the obverse is perfectly distinct, and with the exception of the last 

 two letters of the title (Korano) the whole of the inscription is 

 legible. The coin was found in the village of Manickgunge (Dis- 

 trict Eajshahye) on the estate of Babu Ramanauth Tagore and for- 

 warded by that gentleman for exhibition to the meeting. 



The Librarian submitted his usual monthly report. 



Archdeacon Pratt, at the request of the President, explained 

 with the help of diagrams the physical cause of the motion of the 

 gyroscope, which was exhibited by Mr. Jones at the previous meet- 

 ing ; and afterwards illustrated by it the phenomenon of the 

 precession of the Equinoxes, shewing its cause and the interest 

 attaching to it, historically and scientifically, and in its bearing on 

 Chronology. Under this last aspect Mr. Pratt showed, among 

 other examples- 

 How an approximation might be made to the dates 



(1) of the formation of the " Lunar Mansions," the earliest 

 division of the Zodiac. 



