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from Jubbulpore announcing the discovery of Celts in the neighbour¬ 
hood of the Tonse river. This is believed to have been the first 
discovery of the kind in India, and gives us a special and local inter¬ 
est in questions which have lately been occupying prominent atten¬ 
tion in Europe. I am in hopes that the new year will see arrange¬ 
ments made by the Council for pursuing enquiries as to what people 
are likely to have made or used these implements, and as to whether 
similar traces of human life at a very ancient period may not be 
forthcoming in other parts of India. 
“ I have already proposed to my colleagues on the Council that all 
advantage should be taken of our position in a country so rich as 
India is in ethnological materials. We have already the Sclilagin- 
tweit casts and hope to secure a series of the photographic drawings 
which are now in course of preparation for dispatch to England by 
order of the different local governments. If we can succeed in collect¬ 
ing together the crania of some even of the many races which now 
exist in India, we shall have the means of assisting largely in 
researches which have assumed a new importance within the last 
year or two. 
“ Our March meeting was a crowded one. Captain Montgomerie, 
it will be remembered, on that evening exhibited to us his map of 
the Jummoo territories, and read his memo, on the progress of the 
Kashmir series of the Great Trigonometrical Survey, which was 
afterwards published in our Journal. It has been with the greatest 
satisfaction that I have observed during the last year or two, the 
increasing number of recruits which our list of members is receiving 
from the two great Surveys now in progress in India. I look on 
their adhesion to our Society as real strength gained, for these new 
members have the privilege of pursuing as a profession, investigations 
which enable them to contribute most valuable information to our 
Journal as well as to our general meetings. 
“ On another occasion we had from Captain Pelly an account of his 
adventurous ride without disguise and without arms from Trebizond 
to Kurracliee, and in May we listened to an interesting paper by 
Colonel Yule on some antiquities near Jubbulpore, and to some 
observations by Professor Oldham on a small but valuable collection 
of fossils which had been presented to his museum by his Excellency 
Sir William Denison who was himself present at the meeting. Mr. 
