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a better arrangement; and display of other portions of the general 

 collections. 



I have, &e. 

 (Signed) W. S. Atkinson, 



Secy. Asiatic Society. 



From W. Grey, Esquire, Secy, to the Govt, of India. 

 To the Secy, to the Asiatic Society. 



Dated, Council Chamber, 3rd May, 1859. 

 Sir, — I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, No. 

 95, dated the 6th ultimo, and in reply to inform you 

 Home Dept. that the Governor-General in Council is unable to 

 comply with the application preferred by the Council 

 of the Asiatic Society for a further grant of 200 Es. a month to- 

 wards the support of the Society's Museum. 



I have the honor to be, Sir, 

 Tour most obedient servant, 



(Sd.) W. Grey, 

 Secy, to the Govt, of India. 



Communications were received : — 



1st. — From Dr. G. Buist of Bombay, a paper on the Curia Muria 

 Islands on the north-western border of the Arabian Sea. 



2nd. — From E. Blytb, Esq., a paper on the Great Eocqual of the 

 Indian Ocean, with notices of other Cetacea and of the Syrenia or 

 aquatic Pachyderms. 



3rd. — From the same, a paper entitled Notices and Descriptions 

 of various Fishes. 



4th. — From J. D. Gordon, Esq. Officiating Under-Secretary to the 

 Government of Iudia, Copy of a statement of Doodnath Tewarry, a 

 convict in Port Blair who had lived for many months with the abori- 

 gines of the Island. 



5th. — From Baboo Radhanath Sikdar, abstract of the results of the 

 hourly Meteorological Observations taken at the Surveyor General's 

 Office in the month of March, 1859. 



The Veu'ble Archdencou Pratt read a paper on the influence of 

 Mountain-attraction on the determination of the relative heights of 

 Mount Everest and the Mountains of Kashmir. 



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