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The Committee would wish it to be understood that the Board, the 
constitution of which they suggest, should have no power whatever 
excepting to offer its opinions on the subjects to which allusion has 
been made in this Report and perhaps on other kindred matters of 
science. It is not, however, for the Committee to offer any decided 
opinion as to any thing beyond the meteorological aspect of the 
questions. The Board would of course be purely honorary. It does 
not appear essential that all of its members should be residents in 
Calcutta or even in this Presidency. 
The Committee have no doubt that if such a Board were constituted 
from the leading men of science in India, its recommendations would 
be received with thankfulness by the Government, and by all indivi¬ 
dual observers, and that such recommendations would practically carry 
with them sufficient weight to give that spirit of unity and method 
to all meteorological observations which is so entirely wanting at 
present, and which is so essential to any real progress in the science 
and its practical application. 
Some remarks were made by Colonel Thuillier, on the subject of 
the recommendation which the Council proposed to submit to Go¬ 
vernment, and after a discussion in which Col. Strachey, Mr. Old¬ 
ham, Col. Douglas, Mr. W. T. Blanford and other members joined, 
it was resolved that the Council be empowered to address Govern¬ 
ment in furthrance of the general objects advocated in the Report; 
but instead of a Board of visitors of the Calcutta Observatory, to 
recommend the appointment of a meteorological Committee, for the 
purpose of making suggestions on the best practical way of promot¬ 
ing those subjects. 
The following report of the Phil. Committee was recommended 
by the Council and adopted. 
REPORT. 
The Philological Committee recommended to the Council that 
Pundit Nabadwip Chunder Goswami’s offer be accepted to edit the 
prose Sankara-dig-Yijaya of Anantananda Giri. The Society, last 
year, accepted a proposal to edit the poetic version by Madhava, as it 
seemed at that time hopeless to obtain MSS. of the prose work, 
but the Secretary has lately obtained several MSS. through Dr. Hall 
and pundit Lingam Laksmoji of Yijayanagaram, and the printing of 
Madhava’s work, which had just commenced, has been stopped ; and 
