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such general recognition and high reward than for the variety of 

 his knowledge and for the zeal and ability with which, amidst the 

 distracting cares of official life, he pursued his researches in the field 

 of Oriental literature. 



Mr. Grote seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously. 



Mr. Houstoun gave notice of a motion for the next meeting of 

 the Society, to know under what decision of the members assembled 

 in General Meeting, letter No. 217 of the 3rd December, 1853, 

 was written and made to appear as if the act and deed of the 

 Society. 



Communications were received — 



1. From E. C. Bayley, Esq. C. S. enclosing a note on the 

 Khunniara Inscriptions. 



2. Erom W. G. Young, Esq., Under-Secretary to Government of 

 Bengal, stating with reference to a communication from the Society 

 under date the 3rd inst. that His Honor the Deputy Governor of 

 Bengal has been pleased to sanction an annual grant of Rupees 140 

 for keeping the ruins of Gour and Puruah free from jungle, and that 

 the conservancy of the ruins has been placed under the Joint Magis- 

 trate of Maldah. 



3. Erom H. Cooper, Esq. Officiating Under-Secretary to Govern- 

 ment of India, forwarding transcripts of inscriptions copied at Sanchi, 

 in 1850-51, by Lt. Maisey, with a view to their translation. 



4. Erom Dadoba Pandurang, Esq. Ahmednagar, enclosing a 

 list of Mahratta books for sale at the Elphinstone Institution. 



5. Erom W. G. Young, Esq. Under-Secretary to Government of 

 Bengal, communicating a Memorandum on the Coal stated to occur 

 in the Sivok JNuddee near the river Teesta, by Professor T. Oldham, 

 Superintendent of the Geological Survey of India. 



The following is the substance of the Memo. 



" Arriving at the Sivok Nuddee I devoted some days to the careful 

 examination of the district adjoining, but was not able to discover 

 the smallest trace of the existence of any bed or regular deposit 

 of coal. Coal may undoubtedly be found in the rocks and in the 

 detritus of the stream bed, but it only occurs as the carbonized bark 

 of stems of trees of various sizes, imbedded in the thick forma- 

 tion of pebbly sand-stones which occur here. On these stems the 



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