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As to the girls, it was beaten by the women, 

 Or, " As to the girls, they were beaten by the womeno" 



5. The agent of the verb in these preterite terms is governed by ne. 



This exposition, I conceive, makes everything connected with this 

 subject clear and harmonious. It proves the Hindustani to have a pure 

 though defective preterite Passive voice, independent of the auxiliary 

 jdnd, and shows ne to be as intelligible v/ith the Preterite tenses as d 

 with the Latin passive, or h^/ with the English„ The tenses which are 

 not derived from the Past particle must be supplied by the help of 

 Jdnd ; and thus we shall have a complete paradigm of the Passive voice 

 in the. Urdu of Hindustan. 



Mr. B. B. Stoney read a paper On the Relative Deflection of Lat- 

 tice and Plate Girders." 



The President, before leaving the chair, congratulated the Academy 

 on the number and variety of communications of great interest and 

 value which had been brought before the Academy during the Session 

 now closed. 



MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1862. 

 William E. Wilde, Esq., Yice-President, in the Chair. 



W. H. Hardinge, Esq., read (in continuation) his paper on Mapped 

 Townland Surveys of Ireland. 



The Eev. Professor Hatjghtok read the following Paper : — 



Obseevatioks on the Wind, made m the Teaes 1848-49, te Leopold 

 Haeboue, JN'oeth Someeset, oi^ Boaed Her Majesty's Ship '^If- 

 vestigatoe." 



The following observations were made during the winter of 1848-9, 

 on board Her Majesty's ship ^'Investigator," which, with the ''Enter- 

 prise," formed the first Eranklin searching expedition, under the com- 

 mand of Sir James C. Poss. 



I owe the opportunity of discussing and publishing them to the 

 kindness of Captain Washington, R. 2^., Hydrographer, who placed 

 them at my disposal, for scientific use, together with the Tidal Observa- 

 tions that accompanied them. The observations themselves were made 

 by Lieutenant Eobinson, E. JN"., and appear to have been very accurately 

 recorded. 



The latitude of Port Leopold is 73° 50^ IST., and the longitude 

 is 90° 20' W. 



E. I. A. PE0C.~V0L. VIII. 



