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of sick and childless people every year. Three miles to the south of 

 the tomb, stands a large mosque called the Sdtgumbaj or " the mosque 

 of 60 domes." It is an oblong building, 144 feet by 96 feet, having 

 sixty pillars of brick and stone and 77 domes on the roof. The floor is 

 paved with encaustic tiles. At the end of the paper there is short 

 account of a curious physical phenomenon, being a series of sounds as 

 of distant guns which are heard at Bagarhat and all along the mouth 

 of the Gangetic delta to Bakergunge. After storms and during calms 

 the sounds are said to be the loudest. Some suppose it to be the 

 result of the surf breaking with force on a low beech, but the Babu 

 believes it to proceed from some subterranean cause. 



At the request of the President Mr. Hill read his paper. 



Proposed by Dr. Partridge and unanimously carried, that the 

 thanks of the Seciety be given to Babu Gour Doss Bysack and Mr. 

 F. Hill. 



Library. 



The following additions were made to the Library since the meeting 

 held in May :<— 



Presentations. 

 * # * The names of Donors in Capitals. 



Durjana Kari Panchanana by Rangachari Swami. — Babu Ra'jendra 

 Lala Mitra. 



Report of the Government Charitable Dispensaries of Bengal for the 

 year 1865. — The Govt, of Bengal. 



Selections from the records of the Government of the N. W. P. 

 New Series Vol. III. — The Govt, of the N. W. P. 



The Rahasya Sandarbha, Vol. IV. No. 38. — The Calcutta School , 

 Book Society. 



Social Science for India, a paper read before the Oudh Scientific 

 Association, by Syud Shurfooddeen. — The Oudh Scientific Asso- 

 ciation. 



Bulletin de la Societe de Geographie of Paris, for February 1867. — 

 The Society. 



Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, Palseontologia Indica, 

 Vol. V. parts 1-4. — The Supt. of the Geol. Survey, 



Purchases. 



The Indian Medical Gazette, Vol, II. Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4. 



