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the general arrangement, and management be declared on a reference 

 to the Society at large to be perfectly satisfactory to its members." 



This resolution having been put to the meeting by the Chairman, 

 considerable discussion ensued, in the course of which Major 

 Thuillier suggested that the words " except the Library" should 

 be inserted after the word " collections." This suggestion was 

 adopted. Subsequently Captain C. B. Young moved as an amend- 

 ment, seconded by Baboo Eajendra Lai Mittra — 



" That the consideration of the resolution be adjourned to the 

 next meeting." 



This amendment was put to the vote and lost, and the resolution, 

 as amended by Major Thuillier, was then carried. 



The Council announced that they had reconstituted a Committee 

 of Meteorology and Physical Science, consisting of the following 

 members : — 



Major E. Strachey, the Venerable Archdeacon Pratt, Major 

 H. L. Thuillier, Baboo Eadhanauth Sikdar, Dr. Von Liebig, and 

 H. Piddington, Esq. 



Eecorded. 



"With reference to the Stacy collection of coins, the Council 

 reported that the subscriptions promised amounted to Es. 2,880, 

 of which Es, 1,735 had already been realized, and that Captain 

 Wroughton having agreed to reduce the price of the collection 

 from Es. 5,000 to Es. 4,000, an additional sum of Es. 1,120 only 

 was required to complete the purchase. They therefore requested 

 authority to advance for this purpose a sum not exceeding Es. 

 1,200, so soon as all the promised subscriptions have been realized. 



Granted. 



Communications were received — 



1. From Mr. Secretary Young, forwarding with reference to 

 the correspondence which took place in 1853 and 1854 between 

 the Government of Bengal and the Society regarding the preserva- 

 tion of the ruins at Gour and Purrooah from further decay and 

 destruction, copy of a letter on the subject from the Board of 

 Eevenue, from which it appears that the Government of Bengal 

 had made an offer to purchase such of the ruins as were really- 

 worth preserving, but that the terms demanded by the zemindars 



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