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E. C. Bayley, Esq., B. C. S. 



Dr. P. Bleeker was elected a corresponding member. 



Major R. Tytler, proposed by Mr. Atkinson and seconded by Mr. 

 Sainuells, was named for ballot as an ordinary member at the next 

 meeting. 



The Council submitted the following report: — 



The Council beg to recommend that Rule 49, which directs that 

 " no person shall be proposed or elected a member of the Society on 

 the day of the anuual meeting," be rescinded. 



The annual meeting is devoted specially to business matters relat- 

 ing to the general affairs of the Society ; but there is no apparent 

 reason w T hy the election of members, which is strictly a matter of 

 business, should be prohibited. 



Practically the rule has been found for the last two years extreme- 

 ly inconvenient. In both years several candidates who had been 

 proposed in December stood over for election till February, and in the 

 former of these years, 1857-58, one candidate who was anxious to be 

 elected in order to make use of the Library expressed annoyance at 

 the delay. 



The Council therefore propose to rescind the rule ; and as an 

 appeal to non-resident members is in this case necessary under Rule 

 45, they recommend that the votes of such members be at once 

 taken, so that the question may be disposed of at the special meeting 

 which is to be held after the disposal of the ordinary business on the 

 first Wednesday in July. 



Communications were received : 



1. — From Messrs. Hermann and Robert Schlagintweit. 



A Circular note in reference to the fate of Herr Adolphe Schla- 

 gintweit. 



The note is as follows : — 



Sir, — Lord Stanley, the Secretary of State for India in Council, 

 has been kindly pleased to send us for our information a most care- 

 fully compiled collection of official papers and memoranda, which 

 the Government of Iudia as well as several Civil and Military Offi- 

 cers have been good enough to collect in the hope of elucidating 

 the fate of our brother Adolphe Schlagintweit, in charge of the 

 Magnetic Survey of India since 1854. 



