'Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from September 1850 to June 1852. Edited by the Secretary. Volume X.' [‎51] (72/458)

LETTERS AND PAPERS
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4 . We are sensible that this unanimous expression of our feelings inadequately repays you
for the benefits you have conferred on us, but their remembrance hereafter will doubtless
offer you no unpleasing reward.
5 . While thus addressing you in fulfilment of a resolution of the Society, and on their
behalf, we t eg to add their heartfelt wish for your happiness and prosperity on retirement
from the scene of your successful labours. We have the honor to subscribe ourselves your
most faithful servants,
Stephen Lushington.
Griffith Jenkins.
G. LeG. Jacob.
CuRSETJEE JAMSETJEE.
1st May, 1851. G. Bgist.
The following is Mr. Willoughby’s reply
Gentlemen,—I receive with the highest satisfaction the very flattering compliment you
have paid me on the occasion of my resigning the office of President of your Society.
The objects for which the Society was established, and most of which have, for some time
past, been zealously and assiduously prosecuted by it, claim the active co-operation and
■support of all who are interested in the extension of geographical knowledge and research,
and I can claim no merit for the little assistance which my position has enabled me to afford
in furtherance of those objects.
My Ion® connection with 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. of Bombay will ever make me take the deepest
interest in the various Societies established in it for the promotion of science and literature,
and I consider the Geographical Society in a special manner deserving of support.
I need scarcely assure you, that although about to leave India, I shall al ways continue to take
a very deep interest in the proceedings of the Society, and of my desire, if I should at any
time have it in my power, to aid in its extension, and in the promotion of the objects for
which it was instituted.
Again thanking you for the high honor which the Society has conferred upon me, by
presenting this address, I offer to all of those gentlemen who have honoured me on this
occasion, my best thanks for the kind sentiments they have expressed towards me, and my
warmest wishes for their welfare and prosperity, and that we may at some future period be
again associated together in our native land, in the prosecution of researches similar to those
to which the attention of the Bombay Geographical Society is directed.
I have the honor to be, &c.,
J. P. Willoughby.
The following letters &c. were laid before the Meeting :
LETTERS RECEIVED SINCE THE MEETING OF APRIL,
1— From Corporal R. Leach, 22nd Regiment, dated Dugshai, 27th April 1851, acknowledging
the receipt of a Post Bill for Company’s rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. 120 ; and offering his services to the Geogra
phical Society as an observer*
2— From Commodore Stephen Lushington, R. N., dated 1st May, intimating his having
resigned the office of Vice-President, and requesting to withdraw his name from the list of
members of the Society.
^ rom Norton Shaw, Esquire, Secretary to the Royal Geographical Society of London,
ac nowledging the receipt of the Society s Transactions, vol. IX, and conveying the Society’s
s for this donation. Also presenting his best thanks for the honor done him in electing
him a member of this Society, and placing his services at the disposal of the Society.
4—From Captain W. Strange, Nizam’s Cavalry, dated Goolburga, 28th April 1851, acknow.
edging the receipt of an Aneroid Barometer sent to him by banghy.
om W. D Oyly, Esquire, dated Dhoolia, 7th May, informing of his having remitted
ough the Civil Remittance list of this month, rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. 103, the balance due by him on account
of instruments.