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Carried. 



Dr. Colles observed that as the collection was now small, this 

 was the most proper time that measurements should be taken and 

 recorded, and that it would be easy, when Crania are added to the 

 collection in future, to measure them and compare them with the 

 typical skulls. 



Mr. Blanford remarked that though fully appreciating the importance 

 of the proposals made by the Hon'ble Mr. Campbell, Drs. Smith and 

 Colles, he was afraid that there was no one ready to devote himself to 

 these useful investigations and to work out their results. He, in com- 

 mon with others, would hail as most welcome, any contributions to the 

 ethnology of the country, founded on a study of the crania, but all 

 scientific investigations demanded time and thought, which but few, 

 who possessed the requisite preliminary knowledge could give in this 

 country. The medical officers alone possessed the latter, but who 

 among them was prepared to undertake the work ? Dilettanti such as 

 himself would undoubtedly receive such a report as that proposed by Mr. 

 Campbell with much interest, but novel investigations required great 

 thought and study, and there is no class of leisured men in India, who 

 could, as in England, be expected to respond to the call of a scientific 

 body, to devote time and attention to any line of enquiry that might be 

 recommended to them. He thought that when volunteers presented 

 themselves to carry out the measure proposed by Mr. Campbell, it would 

 behove the Society to afford them every facility. But to call for infor- 

 mation which no one was prepared to give, appeared to him premature. 



Mr. Campbell expressed a hope that the able and learned professors 

 of the Medical College and other Government Institutions who belong 

 to this Society would assist the Council and the members of the 

 Natural History Committee in this important and useful task. 



Babu Rajendralala Mitrathen gave notice of his intention to move at 

 the next meeting that the Society should recommend to Government 

 that registers of Magnetic and Ozone observations be kept at the 

 Observatory attached to the Surveyor General's Office at Calcutta. 



The Council reported that they had granted six months' leave of 

 absence to Babu Lalgopal Dutt, Librarian and Assistant Secretary, 

 and had appointed Babu Protap Chunder Ghose to officiate for him 

 during the period. 



