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Elections.-Edward Chapple, Esq.; J. F. Cleary, Esq.; Captain E. P. H. Thompson, of the ship Nada, and the Honorable L. H. Bayley.

Donations.-The undermentioned donations were laid before the Society, for which their best thanks were requested to be conveyed to the donors :

1. Bombay High Court Reports, Volume II., Parts I. and II. By the Bombay Government.

2. Diary of a Journey across Arabia, by Captain G. Forster Sadlier, compiled from the Records of the Bombay Government by P. Ryan, Esq. By Government.

3. Report on Vaccination throughout the Bombay Presidency and Sind, for 1865. By the Principal Inspector General, Medical Department.

4. Irrigation Projects for the Bombay Presidency. Tank at Ekrookh, near Sholapore. By the Bombay Government.

5. Deaths in Bombay during 1864. By the Principal Inspector General, Medical Department.

6. Results of Meteorological Observations taken at Port Louis, Mauritius. By C. Meldrum, Esq., Superintendent, Mauritius Observatory.

7. The first and second Annual Reports of the Geographical Society of Dresden. By the Society.

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Bulletin of the Geographical Society of Paris for January
February, March, and April 1866. By the Society.

9. Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Volume 35. By the Society.

10. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Vol. 10, Nos. 2 and 3. By the Society.

A most interesting Collection of Books received on account of the Cursetjee Furdoonjee Paruck grant was laid on the table for the inspection of Members.

Letters.-The following letters were then read :

1. From Commander G. T. Robinson, acknowledging Secretary's letter, dated the 23rd April last, and requesting to convey to the

Society the expression of his sincere thanks for the honour done him in his election as Vice-President. 2. From the Secretary, Girgaum Library, acknowledging with thanks Volume 17 of the Society's Transactions, and requesting to be supplied with all back numbers of the same. 3. From the Secretary Royal Asiatic Society, Secretary Imperial Geographical Society of Russia, acknowledging with thanks Volume 17 of the Society's Transactions. 4. From the Secretary, Geographical Society of Dresden, forwarding Annual Reports of the Society. 5. From T. D. Thomson, Esq., 11, Carey Street, advising the despatch of a case containing a fourth instalment of Books on account of the Cursetjee Furdoonjee grant. 6. From J. King, Esq., C.S., Acting Under Secretary to Government, General Department, forwarding copy of a Government Resolution calling the attention of the local Officers in Kattiwar and the countries bordering on the Runn of Cutch and the Gulf of Cambay to an article which appeared in the Bombay Saturday Review, published on the 18th August last, on the subject of geological action on the South Coast of Kattiawar and in the Runn, and requesting the Society to favour Government with a note of the principal facts to which the attention of observers should be directed, and of the manner in which observations should be taken; and the following from the Honorable C. J. Erskine, C.S. :

"To the SECRETARY to the BOMBAY GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.

SIR, In acknowledging your letter of the 23rd instant, I beg you will express to the members of the Society my acknowledgments of the honour they have done me by electing me their President.

I am conscious that I have no claims on the consideration of the Society. But if they consider that it may be in my power, owing to circumstances, to do something to promote the objects they have at heart, I can only assure them that it will give me great pleasure to take any opportunity of doing so.-I have the honour to be, &c.

Bombay, April 24th, 1866."

C. J. ERSKINE.

The Government letter noticed above was referred to the General Committee for disposal.

The business of the monthly Meeting having been brought to a termination, that of the Annual Meeting was taken up, and the following gentlemen were declared, from the Voting Lists scrutinised by the Committee, to be the office-bearers for the Session of 1866-67 :-

Vice-Presidents.

1. The Rev. W. K. Fletcher, M.A.

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Commander G. T. Robinson.

3. Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals A. H. Leith, M.D..

Resident Members of the Committee.

1. G. C. M. Birdwood, Esq., M.D.

2. Bháu Dáji, Esq., Hon. M.R.A.S.

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6. The Honorable George Foggo.

7. A. C. Gumpert, Esq.

8. The Honorable Munguldass Nuthoobhoy.

9. Cowasjee Jehangirjee Readymoney, Esq.

10. Thos. C. Hayllar, Esq.

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1. Sir Alexander Grant, Bart., LL.D.

2. Dadabhai Naoroji, Esq.

3. Col. A. B. Kemball, C.B., F.R.G.S.

4. Surgeon J. H. Sylvester, F.G.S.

5. T. C. Hope, Esq., C.S.

6. General G. LeGrand Jacob, C.B.

7. H. E. Rear Admiral George St. Vincent King, C.B., R.N.

8. H. E. General Sir W. R. Mansfield, K.C.B.

Auditors.

G. C. M. Birdwood, Esq., M.D., and J. P. Hughlings, Esq., B.A., were appointed Joint Auditors of the Society's cash accounts for the past year.

The Honorary Secretary then proceeded to lay before the Society the following brief Summary of the proceedings of the past Session :—

Annual Report.

During the year under review the Society met five times, and the following were the Papers read at their Meetings respectively :1. Remarks by Lieut. Colonel Lewis Pelly on his Tour to the Plateau of Goosakhan and its adjacent hills. Contributed by Government, and read before the Society at the first Meeting, held on September 21st, 1865.

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Report from Lieut. Colonel F. J. Goldsmid on his Overland
Journey from Bagdad to Constantinople, through Turkish
Arabia and Asia Minor. Contributed by Government, and
read at the second Meeting, held on October 19th, 1865.

3. Memorandum of Notes on Mekran, together with a Report on a visit to Kej, and route through Mekran from Gwadur to Kurrachee, by Lieut. E. C. Ross. Contributed by Government, and read at the fourth Meeting, held on February 16th, 1866. 4. Remarks on the Pearl Oyster Beds in the Persian Gulf, by Lieut. Colonel Lewis Pelly. Contributed by Government, and read at the same Meeting.

5. Report on the Soor Roadstead and on the Creek of Jeraumah between Soor and Ras-el-Hadd, by Lieut. H. W. Warner, I. N. Contributed by Government, and read at the fifth Meeting, held on April 19th, 1866.

6. Copy of a Map and of an Itinerary, received from the Political Resident at Aden, of the country passed over by the Field Force lately on service in the Foodlee Country. Contributed by Government, and read at the same Meeting.

The Members numbered on the Society's list at the last annual meeting were 152. Since then there have been removed―

By Death-3.

The Honorable Jugonnathjee Sunkersett.

Robert Haines, Esq., M.B.

J. Hurst, Esq.

By Retirement from India-4.

The Honorable H. L. Anderson., C.S.

Edwin Heycock, Esq.

Captain Thomas Black.

D. J. Kennelly, Esq., Corresponding F.R.G.S.

By Resignation of Membership-2.

M. Kane, Esq., M.D., M.A.

The Rev. Alex. Forbes.

In all eight members. On the other hand there were admitted to membership the following:

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In all 12 members, leaving a total of 155 members at this date against 152 at the last anniversary meeting.

The Society have sustained a heavy loss in the death of the late Honorable Jugonnathjee Sunkersett, who after a long, well-spent, and meritorious life, was suddenly snatched away from the sphere of his usefulness. He joined the Society in 1850, and ever since his connec

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