'The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1865 to December 1867. (Edited by the Honorary Secretary.) Volume XVIII.' [‎8] (35/268)

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2. Copy of a Government Selection, No. 85, entitled “Papers
relating to the Colonization of Mander Deo, and making it a
Sanitary Station. 5 ’ By’ Government.
3. Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Vol. IV.,
Part III.;No. 39, and Part IV., No. 40. By the Institution.
Letters.*— The following letters were read :—
1. Memorandum from Messrs. Remington and Co., promising to
pay the cheque for Rs- 6,000, but intimating that, for want of
previous notice, they would consider the account at call, bearing 2 per
cent, interest. 2. From Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Co., London,
enclosing statement of their account made up to the end of last year,
presenting an amount due to them of 16s. 6d., and requesting early
remittance thereof. 3. From Lieutenant W. L. Searle, F.R.A.S.,
forwarding copy of the Magnetical and Meteorological Observations
made at Bombay in 1863. 4. From Lieutenant Colonel M. K.
Kennedy, Secretary to Government, forwarding copy of Government
Selection No. 85. 5. From T. D. Thomson, Esq., London, informing,
among other things, that he would send nearly every Book ordered
in the Secretary’s letter, by the Steamer that would leave on the
26th ultimo, and enclosing further List of Books. 6. From Messrs.
Williams and Norgate, London, requesting to let them know who
acts as the Society s Agent for the sale of its publications in London;
and the following from Bhugwandass Purshotumdass, Esq., was read
by the President :■—
“To the Honorable W. E. Frere, F.R.G.S.,
I resident of the Bombay Geographical Society.
S IR > I have much pleasure in forwarding for the acceptance of the
Bombay Geographical Society the sum of Rs. 3,500, for the purpose of
compiling and publishing a General Index to the Society’s Transactions,
to be combined in one volume with reprints of the Catalogues of its
books, maps, charts, & c ., &c., to be edited by D. J. Kennelly, Esq.,
t re onoraiy Secretary, who has very kindly consented to undertake
the work.
I have, &c. &c.,
Bhugwandass Purshotumdass,
Member of the Bombay Geographical Society.
Bombay, 16M March 1865.”