Osborn, Captain Sherard, C. B., Inspector General, Indian Medi Bombay Branch Royal Asiatic Bombay Chamber of Commerce. Bombay Grant Medical College. Bombay Students' Literary and Scientific Society. Boston Society of Natural History. Geographical Society of Dresden. Geographical Society of Paris. cal Department. Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester. Meteorological Society of Cal cutta. Meteorological Society of Mauritius. Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Royal Geographical Society of London. Royal Institution of Great Britain. Royal Observatory of Greenwich. Royal Society of London. United States Coast Survey. PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOMBAY GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. SESSION 1864-65. FIFTH MEETING.-January 19th, 1865. THE ordinary Monthly Meeting of the Bombay Geographical Society was held in their New Rooms, on the basement story of the Town Hall, on Thursday, the 19th January, at half-past 4 P.M. Present. Capt. T. Black, Vice President, in the Chair; Capt. W. C. Barker, Vice-President; J. Burgess, Esq., F.E.I.S.; Burjorjee Sorabjee Ashburner, Esq.; Bháu Daji, Esq., G.G.M.C.; James Taylor, Esq.; Venayekrao Jugonathjee, Esq.; G. C. M. Birdwood, Esq., M.D.; Premchund Roychund, Esq.; J. E. C. Pryce, Esq.; F. A. R. Morrison, Esq.; Surgeon Major T. W. Ward, F.R.C.S.; Lieutenant Henry Morland, F.R.A.S.; Brigadier General T. Tapp, C.B.; Mirza Ali Jan, Esq.; Atmaram Pandoorang, Esq., G.G.M.C.; M. Kane, Esq., M.D., M.A:; Captain A. Phillips; J. Scorgie, Esq., F.C.S.; Rao Saheb Vishvanath Narayan Mándlik, Members; and D. J. Kennelly, Esq., Corresponding F.R.G.S. Secretary. The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. Elections.-H. Cleveland, Esq.; H. Coke, Esq., M.A.; C. Leggett, Esq.; J. Macfarlane, Esq.; A. Taylor, Esq.; Captain J. A. Fuller, R.E.; Lieut.-Colonel A. M. Murray, R.A.; Dinshaw Maneckjee Petit, Esq.; Surgeon Major T. B. Johnstone, M.D.; Jerome Burns, Esq., C.E.; George Foggo, Esq.; and Kulliandass Mohandass, Esq. Members proposed.-H. H. G. Tippett, Esq.; Lieutenant C. Swinhoe; Rev. Alexander Forbes, M.A.; and R. H. Showell, Esq. p l bg Donations.-The undermentioned donations were laid before the Society, for which their best thanks were directed to be conveyed to the donors: 1. Report on the Government Central Museum and on the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of Western India, for 1863. By Government. 2. Deaths in Bombay during 1863. By the Principal Inspector General, Medical Department. 3. Papers relating to the Cost of Working the several Branches of the Railway Traffic. By Government. 4. Observations on the influence of Forests, and on the general principles of management, as applicable to Bombay; by N. A. Dalzell, Esq., M.A., F.R.S.E., Conservator of Forests, Bombay Presidency. By Government. 5. Proceedings of the Imperial Geographical Society of Russia. By the Society. Letters. The following letters were read :— 1. From Lieutenant W. T. Crockett; 2. from Lieutenant A. Phillips, and 3. from His Excellency Rear Admiral Geo. St. Vincent King, C.B., acknowledging with thanks the Society's intimation of their having been elected Members of the Society. 4. Memorandum from Lieutenant Colonel M. K. Kennedy, Secretary to Government, forwarding one copy of "Papers relating to the Cost of Working the several Branches of Railway Traffic." 5. From Jerome Burns, Esq., C.E., and George Foggo, Esq., intimating their desire to become members of the Society. 6. From Messrs. Remington & Co., advising of their having received from the Honorable W. E. Frere, the sum of Rs. 5,000, on account of the Society; and the following was addressed to the President : : To The Honorable W. E. FRERE, President of the Bombay Geographical Society. DEAR SIR, I do myself the pleasure of enclosing a cheque for Rs. 5,000 as a New Year's Gift to the Bombay Geographical Society, and request you |