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said to have been founded by Rajah Muhee Pal. This Rajah may- 

 have been one of the successors of Sumoodru Pal, the Togee, who 

 followed Vikrama Sen and his son Vikramaditya." 



It was proposed by the Council that Captain Layard should be 

 thanked for the two inscriptions and requested to forward, to the 

 Museum, the twelve-armed figure mentioned in his letter. 



5th. — From Babu Eadhanath Shikdar through Capt. Thuillier, 

 Deputy Surveyor General, Meteorological Registers kept at the 

 Surveyor General's Office, Calcutta, for January and February last. 



Mr. Woodrow proposed that measures be taken to procure a 

 return of the fall of rain at places such as Cherra Punjee and 

 Darjeeling. 



Ordered that the Secretary have extracts taken from the Registers 

 in the Office of the Medical Board to be published in a condensed 

 form in the Journal of the Society. 



The following gentlemen duly proposed and seconded at the last 

 meeting were balloted for and elected ordinary members: 

 Captain J. C. Haughton, 54th N. I. 

 George A. Plowden, Esq. C. S. 

 Lieut. C. H. Dickens, Bengal Artillery. 



The Council submitted the following reports. 



1st. — Recommending the publication of the Suryya Siddhanta in 

 the Bibliotheca Indica, under the editorship of Mr. E. Hall. 



2nd. — Submitting, for confirmation, draft of a rule for regulating 

 the circulation and retention, by members, of books from the library. 



The rule is as follows : — 



" All books, plates, &c. taken from the library by parties resident 

 within twenty miles from Calcutta, to be returned for inspection by 

 the 1st January in each year, and to be returnable on the Librarian's 

 demand at the end of three months from date of issue. Where 

 however the books, &c. may not be required for loan to another 

 applicant, they may be retained on re-application for successive 

 periods of three months till the end of the year. 



" These applications shall certify to the books, &c. being forth- 

 coming and in good order ; and in future the receipt for delivery of 

 all library works shall contain the valuation of the work borrowed 

 according to the Librarian's valuation Catalogue. Books taken by 



