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tended, should such be the pleasure of Government, to the limits originally pro
posed.
A fresh issue of the Transactions was laid before the Society, and it was intimated
that the store of papers considered worthy of publication was at present nearly
exhausted.
The Treasurers reported that after the defrayment of all their liabilities, and
collection of the payments now falling due, the Society would have a balance of
nearly three thousand rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. in its favour ready to be expended on further
publications.
The thanks of the Society were ordered to be given to the various contributors
to its repositories and transactions.
The Secretary was directed to write to the Lords of Her Majesty's Admiralty
on the subject of the scheme of observation formerly patronized by them, so soon as
an answer had been received from the Local Government.
The meeting then adjourned till the 1 st Thursday of May.
✓
The Anniversary Meeting of this Society took place in their Rooms, Town Hall,
on Thursday the 6 th May 1847, at 3 o’clock p, M.
Present.—Dr. J. Bird, (in the Chair); Dr. J. Scott; Captain H. J. Barr ; and
Dr. Geo. Buist, L. L. D., Secretary.
The minutes of the Ordinary Quarterly Meeting held on the 4 th February last
were read and approved.
Resolved.—That the Hon’ble the Governor should be requested to become
Patron to the Society.
Thefollowing papers,books, letters, and map, were then laid before the meeting :—
Papers. — By Government. —Extract from a Journal of a Steam trip to the
North of Baghdad in April 1846, with notes on the various objects of interest met
with, by Lieutenant J. F. Jones, I. N., accompanied by three drawings represent
ing the modern town of Samarah, and the ruins around it, and the remains of the
Forts of Quadasiyeh and Tekrit; with a letter from A. Malet, Esq., Secretary to
Government, Secret Department, dated 9 th February, No. 65 of 1847.
By the Authors, through 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. —Maximum and Minimum of Barometer and Thermometer, as taken by
Captain Haines, at Steamer Point, and by Sergeant W. Moyes, at Aden, from 1 st
June to 10 th October, 1846.
Books.-—B y Government. — Thornton’s [Edward, Esq.,] History of the British
Empire in India, vol. 6 ; with a letter, No. 751, dated 20 th March, 1847 ? General
Department, from W. Escombe, Esq., Secretary to Government.
By Government. —Observations made at the Magnetical and Meteorological
Observatory at Bombay, from ikprilto December, 1845, and printed by order of the
Hon’ble East India Company, under the superintendence of A. B. Orlebar, M. A.,
Lincoln College, Oxford, Elphinstone Professor of Astronomy and Mathematics;
with a letter, No. 15, dated 23rd April 1847, from Commander C. W. Montriou,
I. N., in charge Observatory of Bombay, Colaba.
Map. By the Quarter-Master-General of the Army. — Route Map A map depicting a specific journey. of the Bom
bay 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. , including Scinde, surveyed and collected by the Quarter-Master-