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William Duthoits, Esq. C. S., proposed by the Hon'ble G. Camp- 

 bell, seconded by R. Spankie, Esq. 



John Middleton Scott, Esq., A.B., C.E., &c, Assistant Professor 

 of Engineering, Presidency College, proposed by V. Ball, Esq., 

 seconded by M. H. Ormsby, Esq., for re-election. 



Babu Obhoy Chum Mullick, Roy Bahadur, Deputy Collector, 

 proposed by Babu Gour Doss Bysack, seconded by the President. 



The following gentlemen have intimated their desire to withdraw 

 their names from the Society : — 



* W. H. Stevens, Esq. 

 H. Leeds, Esq., and 

 J. H. Mathews, Esq. 



3. Read the following letter from Coowar Mohendra Narain Deb. 



" Sobhabazar, Bajbaree, 23rd April, 1867. 

 " To the Secretary to the Asiatic Society. 



" Dear Sir, — With feelings of the deepest sorrow, I beg to announce 

 to you the melancholy intelligence of the death of my father Raja 

 Sir Radhakanta Bahadur, K. C. S. I. A telegram from Brindabana 

 via Muthra, dated the 20th instant, has brought the heart-rending 

 news that the Raja breathed his last at noon on the 19th instant. 

 The information I have as yet received regarding his last illness is 

 imperfect." 



In moving the following resolution on part of the Council, the 

 President said— 



" Gentlemen,-— Since our last meeting we have received the melan- 

 choly intelligence of the death of one of our most distinguished 

 members. On the 19th of last month, Raja Sir Radhakanta Deva 

 Bahadur, a Knight of the Star of India, an oriental scholar of the 

 highest attainments, and a leader of all that was enlightened and 

 distinguished in native society in Bengal, died at the advanced age 

 of 85 years, at the ancient city of Brindabana where (as I am in* 

 formed) he had retired, to pass some portion of the close of his long 

 and useful life in repose and meditation. The loss of this dis* 

 tinguished man, who was so highly revered throughout Bengal, is 

 lamented not only by his relatives and countrymen generally, but 

 by this Society and by many European friends, who had learned not 



