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in supposing that they considered their Society as the first 

 Scientific Society in India. They were proud of their Ethnolo- 

 gical and Antiquarian researches. And they were willing to flatter 

 themselves that they could correspond on equal terms with the 

 Literary and Scientific Societies of Europe and America. Let them 

 remember that in these things their Secretary was the mouth piece of 

 the Society, and that certainly Mr. Blanford in discharge of these 

 duties had never failed to reflect credit upon the body. It was few 

 persons who possessed the qualifications needed for the post, and fewer 

 still, who would sacrifice their private leisure to perform its functions. 

 If they were so fortunate (as he believed he might venture to assume 

 they were) that they had already secured Mr. Blochmann to succeed 

 Mr. Blanford, they must not forget, that they had enjoyed the further 

 fortune of having Mr. Blanford as the predecessor of Mr. Blochmann, 

 and unless they gave the only return in their power, unstinted thanks, 

 to the retiring Secretary, they would be virtually telling Mr. Bloch- 

 mann that he had undertaken a thankless office. 



Dr. Fayrer seconded the motion, which was unanimously carried. 



Bead a letter from the Under-Secretary to the Government of India, 

 For. Dept., forwarding further report on the Cromlechs of Coorg 

 dated Coorg, 22nd May, 1868. 



1 In continuation of my letter No. 3301 of the 4th March last, 

 I have the ho;ior to report that in accordance with the instructions of 

 the Commissioner, I have caused eleven of the Cromlechs, lately dis- 

 covered in the vicinity of Veerajenderpett, to be excavated, and beg 

 to submit the results of the explorations made by myself and my 

 Assistant, Lieutenant J. S. F. Mackenzie.' 



2. ' The parallel barrows, or mounds of earth, alluded to in my 

 former report, though containing one or two Cromlechs, were found 

 not to cover continuous rows of these structures ; but the Cromlechs 

 now excavated were situated below large mounds and covered over 

 with trees and dense brushwood, showing that they had not been 

 touched by the hand of man for ages past. These structures consisted, 

 like the others reported on, of oblong chambers, the bottom and sides 

 composed of large single slabs of unhewn granite, and surmounted by 

 a large slab of the same description. The longest chamber was 7J 



