"معاملات الجمعية الجغرافية في بومباي، من يناير ١٨٤٧ حتى مايو ١٨٤٩. تحرير السكرتير. المجلد VIII." [‎١] (٤٩٦/١٦)

MEETINGS
OF THE
BOMBAY GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.
A meeting of this Society took place in their rooms, Town Hall, on Thursday
the 4 th February 1847—the Hon’ble J. P. Willoughby, Esq., Vice-President in
in the chair. Present—-the Hon’ble L. R. Reid, Esq.; Dr J. Bird, member of the
Medical Board ; Colonel N. Campbell, Quarter-Master General; C . J. Erskine,
Esq., C. S., Private Secretary to the Hon’ble the Governor; Dr J. Glen, member
of the Medical Board; Major J. Holland, Deputy Quarter-Master General; Dr
J. Scott, Secretary Medical Board; Ali Mahomed Khan, Esq.; and Dr G.JBuisfc,
Secretary.
The minutes of last General Meeting having been read, the following donations
and letters were laid before the Society:—
Paper. —By Government.—Extract paras. 2 at 6 of a letter from the officer
commanding the steam vessel Victoria, with a letter from Lieut. Colonel P. M,
Melvill, Secretary to Government, dated Bombay Castle, 28th September, No.
1421 of 1846, Marine Department.
Books. —By the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries at Copenhagen,
through the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society .—2 copies of Memoires
de la Societe Royale des Antiquaires du Nord, for 1840-43 ; Memoirs sur la de»
couverte de 1’ Amerique, audixieme siecle, par C. C. Rafu, for 1843; Antiquarisk
tidsserift udgivet af det Kongelige Nordiske Oldskrift, Selskab, for 1843 ; 2 copies
Nemoires de la Societe Royale des Antiquaires du Nord, for 1844; 1 copy of the
Annual Report for 1834; 3 copies of the General Anniversary Meetings which
took place on the 29th January 1838, 31st January, 1839, 31st January 1840 ; 5
copies of the Liste de ses Membres Fondateurs for 1845; 4 copies of the Asiatic
Section; 1 copy of the works lately published on America; 1 copy of the works
recently published by the Society on Critical Opinions; 1 copy of Extrait de«
Statuts Constitutifs; and 1 paper of Sanct Thomae Tidende, 11 th Juni, 1845 ;—■
with two letters dated Copenhague, le 19th Novembre, 1845.
By the Author, through Capt. H. B. Lynch, I. N.—Documents sur P Histoire,
la Geographic, et le Commerce de la Partie Occidentale de Madagascar, recueillis
et rediges par M. Guillain, Capitaine de Corvette—Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1846.