'Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from January 1847 to May 1849. Edited by the Secretary. Volume VIII.' [‎54] (70/496)

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Alexandria free of charge in 1845, and that Captain Gribble had repeatedly frank
ed the Society’s parcels to Madras and Calcutta.
It was stated that no answer had been received from Government on the subject
of establishing immediately Observatories at Kurrachee and Viziadroog.—The
meeting was adjourned to the 2nd Thursday of November next.
The Ordinary Monthly Meeting of this Society took place at their Rooms in the
Town Hall, on Thursday the 9th November 1848, at three o’clock p. M. —The
Hon’ble J. P. Willoughby, Esq., Vice President, in the Chair. Present—Com
mander G Jenkins, I. N. ; Major J. Holland ; Dr J. Burnes, K.H., M.D.; Dr J.
Glen; and Dr G. Buist, Secretary.
The minutes of last meeting having been read and approved of, the following
members were proposed, seconded, and elected unanimously :—
Proposed by Dr J. Burnes, K.H., M.D., seconded by Dr J. Glen, and elected
unanimously—Dr John Patch, Member of the Medical Board.
Proposed by the Hon’ble J. P. Willoughby, Esq., seconded by Captain G. Jen
kins, I. N., and carried unanimously^—Dr M. T, Kayes, Assay Master, Mint.
The following papers, books, &c., were laid before the Society :~—
Papers —By the Government.-—Narrative of a Journey through parts of Persia
and Kurdistan, undertaken by Commander J. F. Jone s, I.N., of the Hon’ble Com
pany’s steam vessel Nitocris, in company with Major Rawlinson, 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.
in Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. -—dated Bagdad, 31st December, 1847. With a letter from A.
Malet, Esq, Chief Secretary to Government, Political Department, dated 21 st
October, No. 4409 of 1848.—By the Author, through Captain S. B. Haines, I.N.,
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,
from 5th to 30th September, and on Seerah Island at Aden, &c., for the month of
September 1848. By Sergeant W. Mayes.
Books. ~-By Government,—The Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern
Asia, for August 1848, Vol. 2nd, No. 8. With a letter from J. G. Lumsden, Esq ,
Secretary to Government, General Department, dated 12th October, No. 3640 of
1848.
The Secretary stated that as the time for preparing the Meteorological and
Tidal Observations now approached, it would be expedient to make some arrange*
ment for preparing them and passing them through the press. The usual mode in
which such things were managed was by a Committee on papers by the Secretary,
in connection with a Committee, or by the Society directly under the Secretary.
It was then resolved that the Committee which had been appointed to report on
the making of the scheme, should be re-appointed; but that the Secretary should
first prepare the papers, and then submit them to the Committee for revision, and
when revised to be placed before the Society, previous to publication.