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Major S. R. Tickell, Maulmain, proposed (for re-election) by Mr. 

 W. S. Atkinson, seconded by the President. 



J. Sanders, Esq., proposed by Mr. E. B. Cowell, seconded by 

 Mr. "VVoodrow. 



C. A. Elliott, Esq. c. s., proposed by Mr. Atkinson, seconded by 

 the President. 



The Council proposed Dr. Frederick of Batavia as a correspond- 

 ing member of the Society. 



Communications were received. 



1. From Col. Baird Smith, c. b., officiating Secretary to the 

 Government of India, a memorandum on the Irrawadi River by Lieut.- 

 Col. A. Cunningham, Bengal Engineers. 



2. Erom Baboo Radanath Sikdar, abstract of the Meteorological 

 Observations taken at the Surveyor General's Office in the month of 

 April 1859. 



3c From R. Davies, Esq. Secretary to the Government of the 

 Punjab a paper containing remarks on the Cataclysms of the Indus 

 by Capt. Montgomerie, Bengal Engineers. 



The paper was read by the Secretary. It will be published in the 

 Journal. 



Dr. Buist, Bombay, read a paper on the Curia muria islands to 

 which remarkable group an unusual amount of attention had of late 

 been drawn from their being represented as containing deposits of 

 guano. They were five in number, situated in a fine semi-circular 

 bay on the Southern shore of Arabia, betwixt the Sea of Oman and 

 the Gulf of Aden, under the seventeenth northern parallel and 

 fifty-seventh eastern meridian. This was the stormiest portion of 

 the Arabian sea, subject at all seasons to violent storms of wind and 

 rain, the occurrence of the latter forbidding the idea of guano being 

 stored of any considerable commercial value. Though two degrees 

 south of Bombay where 58° was a degree of cold rarely known, the 

 Belot or Belood wind from the mountains to the west often brought 

 down the thermometer to 40 degrees. 



The islands are mostly plutonic, consisting of granite, porphyry 

 and hornblende rocks, corresponding with those on the mainland 



