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study of Vertebrata. His Catalogues of Eeptiles and especially of Fish are 
amongst the most important works published by the trustees of the Bri¬ 
tish Museum. He is especially entitled to recognition in India on account 
of his “ Eeptiles of British India,” published by the Eay Society, a most 
valuable work, and the first complete monograph of any one class of Indian 
animals ever published. 
Henbi Milne-Edwards, Professor of Natural History in the Museum 
of Natural History, Paris, Foreign Member of the Eoyal Geological and 
Zoological Societies, has long been one of the first naturalists in Europe. 
He has written on many subdivisions of the animal kingdom, but his best 
known works refer to the Crustacea and the Corals ; the modern arrange¬ 
ment of both of which has, in great measure, been founded upon his work. 
M. Jules Janssen’s original work as a physicist has been chiefly in 
connection with the Spectroscope. His earlier observations were directed 
to a determination of the selective absorption of the atmosphere for light 
and especially that of the vapour atmosphere. But his great discovery 
made in India, when engaged in observing the Solar eclipse of 18G8, was 
the method of viewing the hydrogen flames of the Solar atmosphere at all 
times, by means of the spectroscope. This discovery was made indepen¬ 
dently and almost simultaneously, by Mr. J. Norman Lockyer. His latest 
discovery is perhaps even more important. By an ingenious limitation of 
the photogenic action of the sun, he has succeeded in photographing the 
solar surface with a degree of delicacy never before approached, and has 
thus opened out a new and most powerful method of studying the physical 
condition of the luminary. 
The President said that the Council had also proposed to nominate 
Dr. Eajendralala Mitra as an Honorary Member, but Dr. Mitra had con- 
. sidered' that by accepting the offer, he would not be in a position to do 
so much for the Society as at present, and had therefore begged to decline. 
The Council reported that Mr. H. B. Medlicott had kindly under¬ 
taken the office of Treasurer during Mr. Beverley’s absence on privilege 
leave. 
The Secretary read a letter from Mr. H. Eiyett-Carnac, c. i. e., m 
continuation of his first memorandum on the subject of the preservation of 
antiquarian remains, and in which he describes the destruction of carvings 
and sculptures from the ruins of Kanauj he had lately witnessed while 
marching between Cawnpore and Fatehgarh, where he found that the 
Herat or mounds with which the country is dotted were being excavated 
