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ing the intelligence of Dr. J. B. Mill's death, and proposed the follow- 

 ing resolution which was carried unanimously. Hesolved, that the So- 

 ciety receive with much regret the intelligence of the death of the 

 Rev. Dr. Mill, who was formerly, for many years, one of its Vice- 

 Presidents, and, in point of Oriental learning, one of its most dis- 

 tinguished ornaments. 

 Read Letters — 



1 . From Babu Radanath Sikdar, communicating Abstracts of the 

 Eesults of the Hourly Meteorological Observations taken at the 

 Surveyor General's Office, Calcutta, in the month of January, 1854. 



2. From "W. Muir, Esq. enclosing copy of the Meteorological 

 Register kept at the Office of the Secretary to the Government of 

 the North Western Provinces, Agra, for the month of January, 1854. 



3. From Mons. A Schrotter, Secretary General of the Imperial 

 Academy of Vienna, acknowledging receipt of the Journal and Re- 

 searches, and requesting to be furnished with other volumes of those 

 works. 



4. Mr. E. C. Bay ley exhibited to the meeting an interesting col- 

 lection of ancient coins, which he had brought with him from Kungra. 



5. The Librarian and the Curator of the Zoological Department 

 submitted their usual monthly reports. The latter pointed out that 

 Mr. Robinson's collection of snakes contained several species new to 

 the Society's Museum, and some which had not yet been described.* 



Library. 



The following books have been added to the library since the last 

 meeting. 



Presented. 



Memoires de la Societe des Sciences Naturelles de Cherbourg, 1 er vol. 

 2 me Livraison. — By the Society. 



Advantages of Gas in Private Houses in Calcutta, with a Description 

 of the Manufacture of Coal-gas. — By Capt. James. 



The Indian Annals of Medical Science or Half-yearly Journal of Prac- 

 tical Medicine and Surgery, No. 1. — By the Editor. 



East India Company's Records founded on Official Documents, shewing 

 a view of the Past and Present State of the British Possessions in India. 

 — By Cesar Moreau. Lithograph. — By the Author. 



Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indie, Deel. IV. and afle- 

 * Vide p. 287 et seqs, ante. 



