'The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1865 to December 1867. (Edited by the Honorary Secretary.) Volume XVIII.' [‎20] (47/268)

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proceedings oi< the
t uh„„„l, tlie number „fP.p»r s re,d during tins Session .a,
f rom „ r i.»s causes, so great as during the t.o preceding ones, ,et i,
be recorded with pleasure that .he, were net wanting ...interest
or Lie, tide value. Of the fire Papers read, three were contrrbiited
1„ Government, and two b, the authors, and were the following
1 Visit to the Wanica country in the vicinity of Mombassa, and
the progress made by the Christian Missionaries at that place.
By Lieut. Colonel R. L. Playfair, II. M.’s Consul and Political
Resident at Zanzibar ; contributed by Government. Read at
the first Meeting, September 15th, 1884.
2. Notes on the recent Earthquake in the North-western part of
the Bombay 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. . By D. J. Kennelly, Esq., Corres
ponding F.R.G.S. Read at the Second ^Meeting, 20th
October 1864.
3. Deport on Dhur Yaroo, in the Shikarpoor Collectorate. By
Assistant Surgeon J. Laloi% B.A.; contributed by Government.
Dead at the fourth Meeting, December 15th, 1864.
4. Gleanings as to the present state of Abyssinia, and a short
account of a visit to the Hot Springs of “ Ailaat.” By Lieut.
Henry Morland, F.B.A.S. Dead at the fifth Meeting, January
19th, 1865.
5. Memoir to accompany the Map of the Survey of a part of
Mesopotamia, from Billah to the Ruins of Niffer, surveyed in
the autumn of 1861 and the spring of 1862. By Lieut. W.
Coilingwood, I. N., then Commanding H. M/s Steamer
“Comet,” and Surveyor in Mesopotamia; contributed by
Government. Dead at the eight Meeting, April 20th, 1865-
The Members numbered on the Society’s List at the last Annual
Meeting were 105 ; and the number admitted during this Session is
52 (of whom 11 are Natives)—by far the largest number ever
•admitted during any one of the previous Sessions. But against
this the Society has lost five Members, of whom three have been
removed, viz.—
By Retirement from lndia.~\. The Honorable W. E.
Frere?