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3. From the Government of Bombay, 2 copies of the Geological 

 papers on Western India, &c, with Atlas. 



4. From Babn Kali Prasana Sing, a copy of his translation of 

 Kalidass's Vikramarvasi, a pamphlet. 



The election of Mr. Eobert Schlagintweit as a corresponding 

 member of the Society was postponed under rule 6 of the Society's 

 byelaws. 



The following gentlemen have signified their wish to withdraw 

 from the Society. Their notes were recorded. 

 Lieut. H. T. Fokbes, 

 Dr. F. J. Moxjat. 



The Council announced that they had elected, as members of 

 their body, subject to the confirmation of the Society, Captain C. H. 

 Dickens, and Mr. Cowell in the place of Dr. Spilsbury deceased and 

 Archdeacon Pratt resigned. 



Communications received. 



1. From Mr. H. Piddington a description of the " Balsa" or raft 

 of the PhilKpine Island, with directions for making it. 



2. From Lieut. -Colonel Waugh, Surveyor General of India, through 

 Major Thuillier, the following papers on the identity of Mount 

 Everest with Deodangha. 



Surveyor General's Field Oeeice, 



Deyra Dhoon, 5th August, 1857. 



My dear Thuillier, — In my letter No. 29 of 1st March, 1856, 

 communicating the results of our calculations for the position and 

 height of No. XV in my list of Himalayan peaks, I stated my 

 reasons for deciding to call this peak " Mount Everest." 



At the August meeting, last year, of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 

 you were good enough to communicate the results regarding " Mount 

 Everest" in an interesting address delivered by yourself. The facts 

 having been thus promulgated, Mr. Hodgson endeavoured in the 

 Journal of the Asiatic Society to establish the identity of Mount 

 Everest with Deodangha, &c. The arguments adduced for this pur- 

 pose were so palpably conjectural, resting on hearsay evidence alone, 

 that I thought it needless to refute them, as their fallacious cha- 

 racter must be apparent to any person competent to understand 

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