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The following are candidates for ballot at the next meeting, — 



Allan C. Hume, Esq., Commissioner of Customs, Agra, — proposed 

 by Dr. J. Anderson, seconded by Dr. J. Ewart. 



J. Wood Mason, Esq., — proposed by Dr. T. Oldham, seconded by 

 Dr. F. Stoliczka. 



Captain Alexander G. Ross, Staff Officer, Panjab Frontier Force ; 

 Abbotabad, — proposed by A. Cadell, Esq., seconded by Lieut. J. C. 

 Ross, R. E. 



The following gentlemen have intimated their desire to withdraw 

 from the Society — 



Dr. C. R. Francis and D. R. Onslow, Esq. ; — the elections of W. 

 Chisholm, Esq., and of R. H. Renny, Esq., have been cancelled at 

 those gentlemen's own request. 



The Council reported that they have sanctioned the appointment of 

 a Maulavi, to check the Catalogue of Arabic and Persian MSS., 

 for three months, at 30 Rs. per month ; also that of a Pandit for the 

 Sanscrit MSS., for some time, at the same monthly salary. 



A letter from the Government of India forwarding — Copy of the 

 Madras Government Resolution on the translation by the Rev. T. 

 Foulkes of Sasanas — was laid on the table. 



The following communications were brought before the meeting — 



1. Note on an Extraordinary Flood in Upper Assam, by S. E. 

 Peal, Esq. [from a letter, dated Sapahattie, Sibsagur, September 21s£, 

 1869]. 



We have lately had most extraordinary floods in some parts of Upper 

 Assam ; especially in the basin of the Desang, and at a time that the 

 neighbouring Dikho was all but dry. 



On the 17th August, I started in a " Rob Roy" canoe from.Sonarie 

 on the Towkak, and I went down stream into the Desang, landing in 

 six and a half hours at " Borboorwah Allee" Ghat, about 45 to 50 

 miles down. It was two or three days after the highest flood had 

 fallen a little ; and I noted that in the entire distance there was no 

 land to be seen from the river that had not been under water and 

 had some 2 inch of inundation mud on the top, — even the highest 

 pieces. 



When passing through Bokota Mouza the river seemed above the 



