"معاملات الجمعية الجغرافية في بومباي. من يناير ١٨٦٣ حتى ديسمبر ١٨٦٤. (تحرير السكرتير.) المجلد XVII." [‎٢‎٢] (٥٢٤/٥١)

PROCEEDINGS OF THE
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gess, Esq., F.EJS-; Edwin Hej^cock, Esq.; Commander G. T
Robinson; Commander W. P. Mitcheson; I.N.; Munmohandas
Davidas, Esq. ; Captain Mohammed bin Hamees, Members; and
D. J. Kennedy, Esq-, Secretary,
The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed.
Election. —Professor F. J- Candy, M.A.
Donations—HhQ undermentioned donations were laid before the
Society, for which their best thanks were directed to be conveyed to
the donors :—
1. —Bulletin de la Socie'te de Geographic Cinquieme Serie, Tome
IV. By the Geographical Society of Paris.
2. —Jahrbuch der Kaiserlich Koniglichen Geologischen Beichsan-
salt. By the German Geological Society.
Letters read :—
C—From T. Rice, Esq., forwarding a Bottle Log found a day
or two before the 2/th of February last, by one Anthony
Fernandez of Negombo, near Katty Kadoe. This Bottle tra
versed a direction of East South East—1180 miles—with a period
of 462 days.
2.—From Comte d’ Hericourt, Paris, requesting to be furnished'
with the names of the active members of the Society, such as
President, Secretary, Treasurers, &c. as also the publications
made in 1862, and forwarding a form and address for the
purpose.
o. Fiom the Royal Geographical Society of London, furnishing
a detailed account of the circumstances which contributed to
derange the brain of their Chief Clerk Mr. R. J. F. Wheeler,
who is now an inmate of a Lunatic Asylum, and forwarding a
su sciiption list in favour of his unfortunate wife and children.
. That the papers on behalf of the Wheeler Relief Fund be
u ate . to the Honorable President and Members of the Bombay
Geographical Society.
mg no other business before the Society, conversation
rmsce aneous scientific subjects followed, after which the Meet:
adjourned to Thursday, April 16th, 1863.