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[Extract from the Proceedings of the Bombay Branch Royal Asiatic Society for the month of April 1887.]

A Meeting of the Society was held on Friday, the 15th April 1887.[1]

The Hon'ble Mr. Justice West, President, in the Chair.

The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed.

Dastur Darab Peshotan Sanjana read the first part of his paper on "The Alleged practice of next-of-kin or consanguineous marriages in ancient Irân."

Mr. Justice West, in proposing a vote of thanks to the lecturer, said they would all agree with him that the paper that had been just read

  1. There were present on the occasion: Sir Jamshedji Jijibhai, Bart., C.S.I., Mr. Justice Jardine, Mr. C. E Fox, Mr. Kharshedji Fardunji Parakh, Mr. Sorabji Shapurji Bengali, C.I.E., Mr. Jehangir Kavasji Jehangir Readymoney, Dr. J. G. da Cunha, Mr. Kharshedji Rustomji Cama, Mr. Jamshedji Bahmanji Wadia, Surgeon Steele, Dr. Atmaram Pandurang, Dr. de Monte, Mr. Jamshedji Kharshedji Jamshedji, Segnior O. S. Pedraza, Mr. Javerilal Umiashankar Yajnik, and others.