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A. M. Monteath, Esq., C. S., proposed by Archdeacon Pratt, 
seconded by Mr. E. C. Bay ley. 
Captain Hyde, Bengal Engineers, proposed by Lieutenant-Colonel 
Thuillier, seconded by Major J. E. Gastrell. 
Baboo Bhola Nauth Mulliek, proposed by Moulavi Abdul Luteef 
Khan Bahahur, seconded by Mr. Atkinson. 
The Hon’ble Major General Sir Robert Napier, K. C. B., proposed 
by Lieut.-Colonel Thuillier, seconded by the President. 
Major Allen Johnson, Bengal Staff Corps, proposed by Lieut.- 
Colonel Thuillier, seconded by Mr. Atkinson. 
Mr. AV. Theobald, Junior, exhibited some celts which he had found 
in Bundlekund, and some chert implements from the Andamans, and 
read the following note on the subject:— 
D uring the past cold season I had the opportunity of examining a 
/ portion of the country in which Mr. Le Mesurier first discovered 
celts (vide J. A. S. No. I. of 1861) and I was so fortunate as not only 
to collect aJahn-sories of .these weapons, but also to ascertain their 
extension upwards of 200 miles East of the Tons River which Mr. Le 
Mesurier in his Memoir considered as their boundary in that quarter. 
In other directions I had not the opportunity of tracing them, but 
that their range extends over a much larger area than is at present 
assigned them in Bundlekund is almost a certainty. Of the most 
marked varieties of these implements I shall give a short description, 
that any one so minded may satisfy himself of the precise identity 
of these celts with those found in Europe, in confirmation of which 
I may quote Mr. Oldham, whose acquaintance with stone weapons from 
Irish and European localities, is very extensive. There is something, 
however, very peculiar in the mode of occurrence of these weapons, 
which must be cleared up hereafter, for though they may be traced as 
far into Behar as I have stated above, it is only west of the Tons that 
they are plentiful: for (rejecting a dubious case) I have not as yet 
obtained a single perfect one east of that river. The most natural 
explanation of this appears to be some superstition which induced 
men of old time to collect these relics of a stiff older age and convey 
them to the shrines and localities where they are now so abundant, 
so that celts collected over thousands of square miles are now 7 ac¬ 
cumulated about Karoi (Tirhowan or Kirwee) and its environs. This 
is of course a mere hypothesis, but agrees well with the scarcity of 
