'Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from September 1850 to June 1852. Edited by the Secretary. Volume X.' [‎105] (126/458)

LETTERS, &c.
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Member Proposed.— Dr. John Forbes Watson,—by the Secretary, seconded by Dr. Haines.
Letters Read. — Nos. 3195 and 1447 of 1852, from J. G. Lumsden, Esquire, Secretary to
Government, General Department. No. 962 from John Scott, Esquire, Secretary to the
Medical Board, and a letter from Captain A- B. KembalL
The following Books &c., were laid on the table.
Books.
1 . Manual of Physical Research for India. By Dr. G. Buist.— Presented by Government.
2. The Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, for January 1852
No. XIV. Vol. IV.—Presented by the Society.
3. The Journal of the Indian Archipelago, and Eastern Asia, for December 1851, and
January 1852.—Presented by Government.
4 . The Bombay Engineers’ Report for the official year 1849-50.—Presented by ditto
5. Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society, No. X.—Presented by the Medical
Board.
6. The Geography of Hudson’s Bay. By John Barrow, Esquire.—Presented by the
Hakluyt Society.
METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS.
From the Surveyor General’s Office, Calcutta, for March 1852.
From the stations of Bangalore, Bellary, Calicut, Cannanore, Coimbatoor, Cochin, Chittoor,
Cuddalore, Cuddapah, French Rocks, Guntoor, Hurryhur, Kamptee, Kurnool, Madura, Mangalore
Mercara, Nellore, Palamcotta, Penang, Secunderabad, Saint Thomas’s Mount, Tavoy, and
Trichinopoly for the months of December 1851, and January and February 1852.
From Sattara and the stations of Cuddalore and Cocanada, for January and February 1852.
From the stations of Calicut, Cannanore, Cochin, Mangalore, and Palamcotta, for March
1852.
From Ahmedabad, Futtehgurh, and Kolapoor, for January, February, and March 1852.
From Bushire, from April to December 1851.
From the station of Salem, from January 1851 to February 1852.
From Bagdad, from September 1851 to January 1852..
Abstract of Mean Pressure, Temperature, &c., for the fourth quarter 1851, and for the whole
year 1851, from four quarter observations made at Futtehgurh.
State of the Thermometer in the shade at Nusseerabad, for January 1852.
The business of the meeting was confined to mere matters of routine.
Annual Meeting.
The business of the Monthly Meeting being concluded, that of the Annual Meeting was
entered on. The minutes of last year’s meeting having been read
Report. —The Secretary stated that, according to custom, he would now proceed to lay
a short account of the proceedings of the Society during the year before the meeting. The
past twelvemonth had not been a very active or a very auspicious one, and an account of what
had occurred would not occupy any great amount of their time. The number of members
removed by death was unprecedentedly great : they had lost in this way their original founder
Sir Charles Malcolm,—one of their Vice Presidents, Captain Hawkins,—and Captain Sanders
and Messrs. Vaupell and Cormack, three of the most esteemed of their members. No member
had in the course of the year returned permanently to England, and but one had resigned.
On the other hand, three new members had been elected, restoring the balance of resident