'Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from January 1847 to May 1849. Edited by the Secretary. Volume VIII.' [‎59] (75/496)

at Viziadroog, stating that he was prepared to attend to the wishes of a 0 .
vernment as soon as the instrument was ready, and requesting to address it to th*
care of Bappoo Kalga, if sent to \ iziadroog.
From Major G. LeG Jacob, dated Sawunt Warree, tbe 2Ttli November, I848 t
intimating his having remitted his subscription to the Society, and expressing his
wish that a proposition might be submitted to the Committee to allow of commu.
tation of subscription being made by payment of a fixed sum, instead of an annual
subscription, which he considers would be more advantageous to the Society.
Major Jacob also inquires whether the Society could not do something to benefit
Members in what he considers a matter of one ot their greatest wants, viz., Maps
of India of the several portions that have been surveyed. As the Chief Engineer’s
and Quartermaster-General’s Offices have a valuable store, it is suggested that
Government might, if no political objection to it existed, on application permit
them being copied, and the Society’s copies might afterwards be made available
for such of its Members as would pay the expense of a draftsman at some 30 Ru
pees per month.
From Corporal Robert Leach, H. M.’s 22nd Regiment, dated Bombay, the 29th
November 1848, offering his services for employment in charge of the Tidal and
Meteorological Observations at Kurrachee, Viziadroog, or elsewhere, under the
superintendence and direction of the Society,—forwarding at the same time, copy
of a letter to his address from the Astronomer Royal Observatory at Greenwich,
showing his ability to fill such a situation.
From Mr. H. G. Briggs, dated Bombay, the 25th September 1848, forwarding
a Prospectus of a Work, in the Press, entitled “ The Cities of Gujarashtra,” and
soliciting the Society’s subscription thereto.
From Messrs. Smith, Elder and Co., dated London, the 19th September 1843,
acknowledging the receipt of a bill for £15 6s. 6d, in their favour, in liquidation
of their account, and £2 2s. in payment of the Society-s subscription to the
“ Hakluyt Societyalso forwarding an invoice of the expences of the Hakluyt So
ciety’s publication, Letters of Columbus, Hawkins’s Voyage, and Raleigh’s Guiana.
From John Peet, Esq., Secretary, dated Bombay, the 2Dth November 1848, re
turning the best thanks of the Medical and Physical Society for the complete set
of the Geogiaphical Society s Transactions forwarded to them, and transmitting^
in return, a complete set of the Medical and Physical Society’s Transactions.
Fiom Sergeant W. Mayes, dated Seerah, 14ih November last, forwarding a
Memorandum of the Instruments received by him from Bombay, and requesting
that he might be supplied with two or three good Thermometers, &c. &c.
Note from Captain G. Fulljames, on a Meteoric Stone, accompanied by a spe -
sfimen, which fell in Guzerat in 1842,
Piece of Iron, supposed Meteoric, found by the Rev. Mr. Reynolds on Singhs