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The Secretary stated, that from the absence of a large number of the mem
bers of the Society from the presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. in the second week of July, there had not
been enough present to make a quorum. Captain Lynch presided, and Captain
Barr acted as secretary, when a minute of sederunt and adjournment was made.
The minutes of the previous monthly meeting of June were read and approved of
in reference to the proceedings of the Sub-Committee on Meteorological and Tidal
Observations. The Secretary stated that the papers to be laid before the Society
as the report of the Committee, had been completed, but were still subject to
the revision of the Committee, and in place of being laid before the meeting would
be circulated with the view of their being acted on, before the dispatch of next
mail for Europe.
The following gentlemen were unanimously elected Members of the Society.
Norman Oliver, Esq.—proposed by Commander G. Jenkins, I. N., and se
conded by the Revd. Mr. Pigott.
Captain S. Y. W. Hart—proposed by Captain H. J. Barr, and seconded by
Dr Buist, L. L. D., Secretary.
The following Books, Letters, and Papers, were then laid before the meeting,
and thanks directed to be given to the respective donors. The principal portion of
the time of the Society was occupied in the discussion of some private arrangements
in the details of the establishment, not requiring to be reported.^
Papers. —By Government. Memoir on the Western or Edoor Tribes, inha
biting the Somali Coast of N. E. Africa, with the Southern Branches of the fa
mily of Darrood, resident on the banks of the Webbi Shebeyli, commonly called
the River Webbi. By Lieut. C. J. Cruttenden, I. N., Assistant Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
at Aden, dated 10 th April 1848. With a letter from A. Malet, Esq., Chief
Secretary to Government, Political Department, dated 26th July, No. 3081
of 1848.
By the Author.—A Narrative of a Voyage in search of the Crew of the
Ship Charles Eaton, performed in the year 1836. By Commander G. B. Kemp-
thorne, I. N.; with a letter, dated 18th June 1848.
By the Author, through Captain S. B. Plaines, I. N,, Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at
Aden.—Meteorological Observations, as taken on Shum Shum and Seerah Island,
at Aden, &c., for the months of May and June 1848. By Sergeant W. Moyes.
Books.— By Government.—The Journals of the Indian Archipelago and
Eastern Asia on the Malayan and Polynesian Languages and Races.—By John
Crawford, Esq., F. R. S. Yol. 2 , No. 4 , & Yol. 2 , No. 5, with Supplement to No. 6
ofVol. 1 , for April and May last. With letters from J. G. Lumsden, Esq.,
Secretary to Government, General Department, dated 19th June, and 13th July,
last, Nos. 2210 & 2535 of 1848.
Letters, —From the Hon’ble Captain Byron Cary, R. N., Private Se
cretary to the Right Hon’ble the Governor of Bombay, dated Dapooree, the
18th June last, acknowledging the receipt of the Society s letter of the 12 th
June last, and intimating, by desire of the Right Hon’ble the Governor, that his