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Eead letters intimating that Sir L. Peel and Dr. Stewart wished 

 to withdraw from the Society, as they are shortly to leave India. 



The Council announced that they had appointed the following 

 sub-Committees, viz : 



Finance. Lt.-Col. Baker and C. Allen, Esq. 



Philological. Lt. Lees, Dr. Roer, Rev. Mr. Long, and F. E. Hall, Esq. 



Library. Dr. Walker. Mr. Woodrow, Capt. Thuillier, Babu Earn a « 

 persad Roy and Mr. Grrapel. 



Natural History. Dr. Spilsbury, Dr. Walker, Dr. Macrae, 

 Lt.-Col. Baker, and Dr. Boycott. 



They also submitted the following report. 



" The attention of the Council has been lately drawn to the magnificent 

 series of fossil specimens from the JNTerbudda contributed between the 

 years 1832 and 1848, by Dr. Spilsbury. 



" As regards the importance of the specimens, some of them, more 

 especially the magnificent series illustrating the Segownee fossil elephant, 

 are so remarkable for their stupendous magnitude and perfect preserva- 

 tion as to be unrivalled in any other Museum in the world. But their 

 scientific interest is of still greater value, as they have chiefly been the 

 means of establishing an extensive fossil Fauna on the Nerbudda. 



" Dr. Spilsbury's merits were not merely those of a collector of fossils ; 

 in most cases he accurately defined and indentified his specimens ; and 

 it was probably the want of the necessary means of reference and compa- 

 rision in a remote locality, and the innate modesty of his character that 

 prevented Dr. Spilsbury from giving to the world a full and complete 

 account of his researches in a connected form. 



" Dr. Spilsbury's contributions have further been marked by as great 

 liberality, as zeal in behalf of the Society. The Council consider, that 

 they have served alike to enrich the Society's Museum and to advance 

 the progress of science. On these grounds, they are of opinion that Dr. 

 Spilsbury is entitled to a public recognition of his services ; and the Coun- 

 cil propose that a subscription be entered upon, among the members and 

 the friends of science for a Portrait of Dr. Spilsbury, to be hung up in 

 the Society's Rooms." 



This report was unanimously adopted and ordered to be circulated 

 among the resident members ; a large number of those present at the 

 meeting entered their names as subscribers. 



Communications were received — 



1. Prom Rev. S. Slater, forwarding the remainder of an English 

 translation of an Urdu Tale by Insha Allah Khan, for the Journal. 



2. Prom Babu Radhanath Sikdar, submitting abstracts of Me- 

 teorological Register kept in the Surveyor General's Office for the 

 month of September last. 



