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Sub-Committee to consider what steps should be taken to supply 

 the vacancy. 



The Council submitted reports — 



1. Eecommending that the consideration of the proposal for 

 reducing the rate of subscriptions be deferred until a Sub-Committee 

 appointed by them to take the subject into consideration had sub- 

 mitted their report. 



2. Announcing that they have appointed the following Sub- 

 Committees. 



Sub-Committee of Finance. 

 C. Allen, Esq., A. Grote, Esq. and C. Beadon, Esq. 



Sub-Committee of Philology. 

 A. Grote, Esq., Lt. Lees, Rev. J. Long, G. G. Morris, Esq. and 

 F. E. Hall, Esq. 



Sub-Committee of Library. 

 Babu Eamaprasad Eoy, Dr. Walker, W. Grapel, Esq., A. Grote, 

 Esq. and Lt. Lees. 



Sub- Committee of Natural History. 

 Dr. G. G. Spilsbury, Dr. Walker, A. Grote, Esq., Dr. A. C. 

 Macrae, Capt. C. B. Young, Dr. T. Boycott and Dr. Thomson. 

 Communications were received — 



1. From Babu Eadhanath Sikdar, communicating abstracts of 

 Meteorological Observations taken at the Surveyor General's Office 

 in August, September and October last. 



2. From Mr. Assistant Secretary Carmichael, forwarding a copy 

 of Meteorological Eegister kept at the office of the Secretary to 

 the Government of the N. W. Provinces for the month of Novem- 

 ber, 1855. 



3. From Mons. Hermann Schlagintweit, communicating some 

 notes on the Hydrography of the Brahmaputra. 



4. From Col. E. J. H. Birch, C. B., Secretary to the Government 

 of India in the Military Department, enclosing a report on the pro- 

 gress of Mons. A. and E. Schlagintweit's researches in the Himalaya 

 mountaius, during the last season. The Secretary read to the meet- 

 ing extracts from the report. 



5. From A. Grote, Esq. forwarding, for exhibition to the meeting 



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