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- A meeting of the Central Asian Society was held on Wednesday, October 27, 1926, at 74, Grosvenor Street, W. 1, Sir Michael O'Dwyer (Chairman) presiding. A lecture was delivered by Captain G. J. Eccles, I.A., on “The Sultanate of Muscat and ‘Oman.” The CHAIRMAN: Ladies and Gentlemen—The Council has to‐day elected thirty‐eight new members, the first being the Viceroy of India, Lord Irwin. The members include people from all parts of Asia, Africa, and Europe in which the Society is interested, beginning with China and ending with Nigeria. The subject for our address this evening is the Sultanate of Muscat and ‘Oman. I fancy most of you, like myself, are blissfully ignorant of those delectable regions. Muscat, we know, is the place where the dates come from, and ‘Oman is the place where the pearls come from; but by the time Captain Eccles has enlightened us, we shall know a great deal more than we do now about them. Captain Eccles is fortunate in having a unique experience of that coast of Arabia, so little known. From recent lectures we have come to know a good deal about the Hejaz, the Yemen, and even about Nejd; of the further side of Arabia we know very little. But within the last two years Captain Eccles, who is an officer of the Indian Army attached to the Sultan of Muscat, and in command of the Muscat levies, has had the opportunity of penetrating into the interior and carrying out a survey of the eastern side of Arabia. The results of that survey he will now put before us, and illustrate with an admirable series of slides which he has been fortunate enough to obtain.