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The following are candidates for ballot at the November meeting : — 



Lieut. H. H. Cole, R. E., proposed by Dr. J. Fayrer, seconded by 

 Mr. C. E. Bayley. 



Captain W. R. M. Holroyd, Director of Public Instruction, Panjab, 

 proposed by Lieut. -Col. R. A. Maclagan, seconded by Mr. M. A. 

 Kempson. 



C. Pearson, Esq., Inspector of Schools, Panjab, proposed by Lieut. - 

 Col. Maclagan, seconded by Mr. A. Kempson. 



J. C. G-eddes Esq., C. S., Magistrate and Collector of Chittagong, 

 proposed by the President, seconded by Dr. F. Stoliczka. 



The following gentlemen have intimated their desire to withdraw 

 from the Society — 



G. A. D. Anley, Esq. 

 A. W. Croft, Esq. 



The Council report that they have elected C. H. Tawney, Esq. 

 M. A., a member of the Philological Committee. 



The Council also report that they have sanctioned the publication 

 of the Poems of Chand in the Bibliotheca Indica. 



Mr. Oldham, on behalf of Major Tennant, R. E., presented to the 

 Society a photograph of the moon taken on the 11th August, just seven 

 days before the solar eclipse of the 18th. It is a positive photograph on 

 glass, and shews very clearly some of those curious crater-like mountains, 

 which are so numerous on the moon's surface. 



Mr. Oldham also, regretting the absence of Major Tennant himself, 

 stated that he had received from that officer, the gratifying intelligence 

 that the party of observers at Aden had succeeded in getting some 

 rough drawings of the Protuberances, &c. Their spectroscope ob- 

 servations failed from clouds, as also their polariscope. They got spectro- 

 scope results on the Corona, and measures of the protuberances. The 

 observers at Aden were Professor Weiss, and Ensign Riha. Dr. Fritsch 

 of the Prussian party on the west side of India got some photographs. 

 Major Tennant also sent a drawing by Professor Kern Luximun, who 

 was at Bijapoor, with Captains Tanner and Haig. 



The President then called on the Secretary to read Dr. W. Oldham's 

 paper, which had been deferred at the last meeting. 





