'Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from January 1847 to May 1849. Edited by the Secretary. Volume VIII.' [‎10] (25/496)

Some discussion occurred in reference to the backward state of the scheme of
tidal and meteorological observations sanctioned by H. M.’s Lords of the Ad
miralty, and subsequently in part by Government. A letter had been written so
far back as the 15th February, to the Secretary in the Military Department,
renewing the offer formerly made by the Secretary, to superintend the observations
over which it was purposed to place Mr. Orlebar in charge. To this no reply has
hitherto been received. The letter proposed to have been sent to H. M. Lords of
the Admiralty had been delayed until the receipt of the answer of the Bombay
Government, as it appeared to be owing to the estrangement of the local observa
tions from under the control of the Society that all other delays had arisen*
The meeting then adjourned till the 1 st Thursday of August.
The Ordinary Quarterly Meeting of this Society took place in their rooms,
Town Hall, on Thursday the 5th August 1847,—the Hon’ble L.R. Reid, Member
of Council, Vice-President, in the Chair. The following Members were present:—
Dr. J. Bird; C. J.Erskine, Esq., C. S. ; Dr. J. Glen; Lieut.-Col. G. Moore ; Ma-
nockjee Cursetjee, Esq.; Ali Mahomed Khan, Esq.; and Dr. G. Buist, Secretary,
The Minutes of the Anniversary Meeting held on the 5th May last, were
read and approved of.
Commander G. B. Kempthorn, I. N., was proposed as a member of the Society
by Dr Buist, seconded by Dr. J. Bird, and unanimously elected.
The following donations were presented, for which the Secretary was directed
to return the best thanks of the Society to the donors :—
Papers.— By the author, 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.—Meteorological Observations, as taken on Shum Shum,
and on Seerah Island, during the month of June 1847 : and Diagram, shewing the
time of high and low water at Aden, as traced by the tide-gauge, between the
13th and 29th June, and from 29th June up to the 13th July 1847, by Serjeant W.
Moyes,—with a letter dated Camp Aden, 16th July, 1847.
Books. By Government. Printed Copy of the Report of the Superintendent
of Roads and Tanks for the year 1845-46, with a letter, No. 1780, of the 25th June
1847, from W. Escombe, Esquire, Secretary to Government, General Department.
By the Royal Geographical Society of London, through Mr J. W. Richardson,
Bookseller of London, to the care of J. T. Bell, Esquire, of Bombay.—The Jour
nal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, vol. 16th, part 2 d, of 1846; with
a letter from the above Bookseller, East India Agent, &c., dated London, No. 23.
Cornhill, March 12 th, 1847.
'. By th T e Sociefce de ^graphic <*e Paris, through the Royal Geographical So-
C !! ty O 5 I i 0nd0n, and Peston jeeFramjee and Co., of Bombay.—Bulletin de la So-
ciete de Geographic, tome 5 of 1846, tome 1 of 1844; and Grammaire et Diction-
naxre abreges de la langue berbere composes par feu venture de paradis, &c. &c , of
1844,—with a letter dated Paris, le 1 st Mai, 1844.
.fj ^ So( f fce Asiatique de Paris, through the Royal Geographical So-
y o ondon.—Journal Asiatique on Recueil de Memoires &c., tome 7 ,