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and, under any imaginable circumstances, no doubt will still continue 
to do so. The Council therefore trusts that the Government will see 
in this suggestion nothing but the indication on their part of what 
appears to them an equitable and practicable way of making the 
present arrangements as conducive as possible to the usefulness of 
the Society, without making any serious or undue claim on the 
Government. 
6. Should His Excellency the Governor-General in Council be 
disposed to meet the views that have thus been expressed by the 
Council, the Council trusts that the Society would ratify an arrange¬ 
ment on such a basis. 
1 have the honor to be, 
Sir, 
Your most obedient Servant, 
W. S. Atkinson, 
Secretary to the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 
The following gentlemen duly proposed at the last meeting were 
balloted for, and elected ordinary members : 
A. M. Monteath, Esq., C. S.; Hon’ble T. J. H. Thurlow; J. Gor¬ 
don, Esq., C. S.; Captain H. Hyde, Bengal Engineers; Baboo Bhola 
Nauth Mullick. 
The Hon’ble Major General Sir R. Napier, K. C. B, j Major Allen 
Johnson, Bengal Staff Corps. 
The following Gentlemen were named for ballot at the next 
meeting:— 
H. Beverley, Esq., C. S., proposed by Dr. Duka, seconded by the- 
President. 
Captain J. P. Basevi, Bengal Engineers, proposed by Lieutenant- 
Colonel Thuillier, seconded by Major Walker. 
J. W. S. Wyllie, Esq., proposed by Mr. Bayley, seconded by the 
President. 
W. L. Heeley, Esq. C. S., proposed by Mr. Atkinson, seconded by 
the President. 
Col. Vincent Eyre, proposed by Archdeacon Pratt, seconded by 
Col. R. Strachey. 
Communications were received— 
I. Frem Rev. A. Brandt through Major Dalton, a copy of a 
Phonetic table of the Alphabet prepared by a Philologer of Finland. 
