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question, being one of importance, should be referred to the Council 

 for report under Bye-law 45. 



The amendment was carried. 



The following gentlemen, duly proposed and seconded at the last 

 meeting, were balloted for and elected ordinary members. 



W. S. Atkinson, Esq. Principal of La Martiniere. 



T. Loch, Esq. C. S. 



Lt. R. Stewart, 22nd N. I. Kachar, was named for ballot at the next 

 meeting, proposed by Lt. Bivar and seconded by the Secretary. 



A letter from Lt. Bruce, H. M. 29th Regt. communicated his wish 

 to withdraw from the Society. 



In accordance with the notice given at the last meeting the President 

 announced that, under the 60th Bye-law, the Council have elected Dr. 

 Spilsbury as aVice-President,andCapt. James andMr. Bayley as members 

 of their body, in the room of Col. Baker and Capt. Thuillier resigned. 



The President moved that these elections be confirmed. 



The question was put and carried. 



Communications were received — 



1. From Mr. Under-Secretary Morris, announcing that His Honor 

 the Lt. Governor has been pleased to accede to the Society's request 

 for a grant of Rs. 1,200, for paving the basement story of the Museum 

 with Chunar flag-stones. 



The President proposed that the best thanks of the Society be con- 

 veyed to His Honor the Lt. Governor for this mark of his considera- 

 tion. The question was put and carried. 



2. From Babu Radhanath Shikdar enclosing abstracts of the 

 hourly Meteorological Registers kept at the Surveyor General's Office, 

 Calcutta, for the months of March and April last. 



3. From Lt. G. H. Raverty, forwarding an account of a visit to 

 the shrine and town of Sakhi Sarwar in the lower Dirajat, with a 

 notice of the Annual Mela or Fair held there. 



4. From Babu Rajendralal Mittra, submitting a note on two in- 

 scriptions from the Island of Putu in the Chusan Archipilago. 



5. From Rev. J. Hislop, communicating a paper on the age of the 

 coal strata in Western Bengal and Central India. 



The Librarian and the Curator in the Zoological Department hav- 

 ing submitted their usual monthly reports, the meeting adjourned. 



