PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 



1833-34. No. 3. 



December 2. 



Sir THOMAS MAKDOUGALL BRISBANE, K.C.B., 

 President, in the Chair. 



The following Donations were presented : — 



Flora Batava. Nos. 93 and 94. — From the King of Holland. 



The Fortunate Union, a Eomance. Translated from the Chinese 



original, with Notes and Illustrations, by John Francis Davis, 



F.E.S. 2 vols. 

 Hoei-Lan-Ki, ou i'Histoire du Cercle de Craie, Drame en Prose et 



en Vers, traduit du Chinois, et accompagn^ de Notes. Par 



Stanislas Julien. 

 San Kokf Tsou Pan To Sets, ou Apergu G6n6ral des Trois Roy- 



aumes. Traduit de I'original Japonais-Chrnois, by Mr J. 



Klaproth. 

 The Shah Nameh of the Persian Poet Firdausi. Translated and 



Abridged, in Prose and Verse, with Notes and Illustrations, 



by James Atkinson, Esq. 

 History of the Pirates who infested the China Sea from 1807 to 1810. 



Translated from the Chinese Original, with Notes and Illustra- 

 tions, by Charles Fried. Neumann. 

 The Life of Hafiz Ool-Moolk, Hafiz Rehmut Khan, written by his 



son. Abridged and translated from the Persian, by Charles 



Elliot, Esq. 

 The Geographical Works of Sidik IsfAhani, Translated by J. C. 



from original Persian MSS. in the collection of Sir "Wilham 



Ouseley, the Editor, 

 The Algebra of Mahommed Ben Musa. Edited and Translated by 



Frederic Rosen. 



