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Babu Kadar Nath Mookerjea, proposed by Major G. B. Malleson, 

 seconded by Mr. H F. Blanford. 



Dr. J. F. Wise, Chittagong, proposed by Dr. D. B. Smith, seconded 

 by Dr. J. Anderson. 



A. P. Macdonell, Esq., proposed by Mr. W. L. Heeley, seconded by 

 Mr. H. H Locke. 



The Hon'ble G. Campbell gave notice that at the next meeting he 

 would move that the Punjab Government be requested to take measures 

 for obtaining an accurate knowledge of Arian languages (other than 

 Hindee) spoken in the territories of His Highness the Maharajah of 

 Cashmere. He addressed the meeting as follows : — • 



" On a former occasion I ventured to bring to the notice of the Society 

 an Ethnological subject, and I have been encouraged by finding that 

 I have been the humble instrument of bringing into the field several 

 most learned and scientific men, who are interested in the prosecution 

 of the object to which the motion was directed, which the Society 

 and the Council were good enough to adopt. In fact, it is now evident, 

 that as this country, in a far greater degree than any other in the 

 world, offers an unlimited field for ethnological observation and inquiry, 

 and presents an infinity of varieties of almost every one of the great 

 divisions of the human race, so also there is no lack of able and quali- 

 fied men to reap this abundant harvest. I have been delighted to 

 know that on the proposition of my friend, Dr. Fayrer, an effort is 

 likely to be made to obtain that which I have long desired to see, a 

 collection of living humans more interesting and more varied than any 

 bullocks. Meantime I seek permission to call attention to another 

 local subject of inquiry. My former motion was more especially 

 directed to the relics of an ancient Non-Caucasian and probably pre- 

 Caucasian race, existing in our immediate vicinity as well as through- 

 out Central India, and I suggested that inquiry should be directed not 

 only to language, but also to physical form and other particulars. I 

 now wish to go to the other extreme of the human scale ; to remind 

 the Society, that as we have among us the very lowest varieties of the 

 race, so we also have within the field of our inquiry in India the very 

 Highesl varieties, the most pure and perfect Caucasian races still exist- 

 ing in tin- Indian portion of the Caucasian range; and to call attention 

 to the fact that, while the physique of these races has attracted much 



