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Ch. C. Adley, Esq., Executive Engineer, P. W. D., proposed by the 

 President, seconded by the Secretary. 



Dr. T. Dukas desires to withdraw from the Society. 



The following letter from B. W. Colvin, Esq., Magistrate of 

 Mainpuri, with reference to the copper weapons, laid before the last 

 Meeting, was read : — 



7 th November, 1868. 



" The copper weapons mentioned in your letter of the 5th instant, 

 were found by a cultivator, whose plough struck against them in 

 passing through his field. 



V He described them to me as lying littered together in a heap 

 without order, and not enclosed in any vessel or receptacle. They 

 were, of course, at no great depth below the surface. 



lf This is all the information I could gather from the man who 

 found them. I have not had an opportunity yet of visiting the place 

 myself where they were found, but I shall have shortly ; and if you 

 will let me know any special points on which further information is 

 desirable, I will do the best I can to procure it." 



The receipt of the following communications was announced — 



1. What was the Swndarbun originally, and when, and wherefore did 

 it assume its existing state of utter desolation? by II . J. Rainey, Esq. 



2. On the Results deducible from the observations made by order of 

 the Secretary of State for India, at Quntoor, on the late Eclipse of the 

 Sun, by Major J. F. Tennant, E. E., F. R. A. S. 



3. Notes on a Tour in Northern Abyssinia, and specimens collected 

 in Abyssinia, by W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



4. The Total Eclipse of the 18th August 1868, observed by the 

 Austrian Expedition, by Dr. F. Stoliczka. 



5. Description of New Marine Mollusca from Ceylon, by Messrs. 

 G. & T. Neville. 



Mr. Blochmann then said — 



Among the books purchased during last month, by the Society, there 

 is a copy of a Persian Dictionary, entitled Sirdjullughdt, in two 

 volumes. This Dictionary was compiled in 1734, by Sirajuddin 'All 

 Khan Arzii, a poet and noble of the court of Dihli. The Society, 

 I think, has been fortunate in getting this rare book at the low price 

 pf Es. 45. The copy itself is but fair, like the MS. of this work 



