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T. Anderson, Esq., M. D., F. L. S., Officiating Superintendent of 
the Government Botanic Gardens, proposed by Mr. Atkinson, second- 
ed by Dr. Thomson. 
Major J. T. Walker, Bombay Engineers, Superintendent of the 
Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, proposed by Major Thuillier, 
seconded by Mr. Atkinson. 
Captain E. L. Earle, Bengal Artillery, Department Public Works, 
Kurnal, proposed by Captain Montgomerie, seconded by Major 
Thuillier. 
The Council reported that they had appointed the Hon’ble Mr. 
Laing and Mr. H. F. Blanford, members of their body, in the room 
of Dr. T. Thomson and Captain W. N. Lees, and that Mr. Oldham 
had been made Vice-President in the place of Dr. Thomson. They 
further announced that Mr. J. Obbard’s name had been added to 
the Sub-Committee for Meteorology and Physical Science. 
Communications were received : — - 
1. From T. Oldham, Esq., a note on an inscription on a stone 
found at Sahebgunj. 
The following is an extract from the note : — 
“ I send herewith a rubbing copy of an inscription found on a 
stone dug out of the ruins of the old buildings at Sahebgunj, one 
of the stations on the East Indian Railway. It is situated to the 
•North of the Rajmahal Hills, on the banks of the Ganges, and a 
short distance to the East of the well known Teleeagurhi Fort. 
“ In removing masses of these old ruins for materiel for the sever- 
al buildings, &c., required for the railway, Mr. Anley, the Engineer 
in charge of the works, was very particular in reserving any which 
were of interest as being carved or sculptured, and among others 
the stone from which this rubbing was taken. When I visited the 
place it was in the compound of his bungalow safely preserved, and 
by his kind aid, I obtained the copy. This was the only stone 
among the thousands he had raised on which there was any lettering 
or inscription whatever. 
“ I submitted the rubbing to Babu Rajendralal Mitra, and I 
quote his opinion 
“ The inscription from Sahebganj is not of much interest. It is 
inscribed in the Tirhoot character of the 16tli century, and records 
the name of a royal priest — Raja Guru Sri Uttanga Sherh. The 
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