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The following gentlemen duly proposed at the last meeting were 
balloted for and elected ordinary members : — 
Captain A. E. Fuller ; Dr. C. Williams ; Baboo Shumbhoo 
Chunder Eoy; Major P. Stewart; .T. F. Cockburn, Esq., C. E. ; A. 
Tween, Esq., Nawab Saiyid As'glmr Ali Ivhan ; Captain E. Davidson ; 
L. Griffin, Esq., C. S. and Lieut. E. C. Beavan. 
The following gentlemen were named for ballot at the next 
meeting : — 
Sahebzadah Mohammad Walagohur of the Mysore family, proposed 
by Moulvi Abdul Lutif Khan Bahadur, seconded by Mr. Cowell. 
Moonshi Suderooddeen of Pandooah, proposed by Huzrut Shah 
Kabiruddeen, seconded by the President. 
Communications were received — 
1. From the Under-Secy, to the Govt, of India in the Foreign 
Dept., a copy of a letter from the Bombay Government containing 
a report in continuation on the eruption of a Volcano on the African 
shore of the Eed Sea. 
2. From Babu Eadha Nath Sikdar, Abstracts of- Meteorological 
Observations taken at the Surveyor General’s office, in February and 
March last. 
Sir B. Frere read the following extracts from letters from Major 
Sarel, announcing his return from the expedition which started up 
the Yang-tse-Kiang in February last with the object of reaching 
India through Thibet : — 
Extract from an official letter from Lieut. -Col. Sarel, 17th Lancers, 
dated Shanghai, China, 18th July 1861, to Colonel Haythorne, 
Adjutant-General II. M.’s Forces, Calcutta. 
“ I have the honor to report my- return to Shanghai with the N. 
C. officer and men of the 11th Punjab Infantry. 
“ Sir Hope Grant granted me leave to take these men and to 
endeavour to proceed to India via Thibet, in February last, at the 
same time telling me that he would write to India to inform H. E. 
the Commander-in-Chief that I had obtained leave of absence. 
“ I regret to have to state, that the expedition has proved un- 
successful so far as the route through Thibet is concerned, our party 
penetrated 1800 miles into the interior and then found the country 
so overrun with rebels, that no men could be induced to accompany 
us, and no carriage of any sort was procurable ; the towns-people in 
