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"But there is business of importance still before the meeting, and 

 I ought not to detain you longer. I again thank you for the honour you 

 have done me, and express a hope that the year to come may be even 

 more prosperous than that just passed away." 



The meeting then resolved itself into an ordinary monthly meeting. 

 The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. 

 The following presentations were announced — 



1. From Baboo Bishwambhar Nath Mookerjee ; a pair of san- 

 dals made of patha leaves, a kind of plant abundant in Peshawar. 



2. From C. J. Crawford, Esq., through Mr. Grote ; a steel print 

 portrait of Dr. Latham. 



3. From the Deputy Commissioner of the Upper Godavery 

 district, two human skulls. 



4. From the Rev. G. U. Pope, through the Bev. C. H. A. Dall ; 

 five Tamil printed works, by the Bev. G. U. Pope. 



5. From Dr. J. Fayrer ; a spear of a Naga chief, and a bow and 

 arrows from the Andaman Islands. 



The following letter from W. Masters, Esq., on the November 

 fall of meteors, was read :■— 



" I respond to the spirit of your last letter by forwarding an account 

 of meteors that fell on the 14th instant, for record in the Pro- 

 ceedings of your Society. I have sent a popular account of them to 

 the " Englishman" for general information : to this I shall add a few 

 particulars which I did not consider of sufficient interest to insert in 

 the original. 



" My attention was first drawn to these visitors to our sphere, in 

 1833 (I believe), when, a little before sunrise, while seated in an 

 upper verandah in Calcutta and looking south, I observed white, 

 pearly, fiakey, I might almost say, tiny spiritual things of the shape 

 of Bupert drops falling, as I fancied, perpendicularly down, about a 

 yard or two apart, and about 15 succeeding each other in two or three 

 minutes within the range of direct vision. Day followed too quickly 

 for this exhibition to last long, 



" Since that time I had been watching their recurrence without suc- 

 cess ; and was on the look out for them from the 9th to the 13th 

 instant, when only a few stragglers presented themselves. Up to 11 



