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Proceedings of Learned Societies. 



[June, 



Harwood, Dr. Horsfleld, Mr. Barnard, 

 Mr. Clift, Mr. IMurchison, Captain de 

 Ca])el Brooke, Dr. Waring, Mr. Stephens, 

 the Rev. Mr. Rackett, Mr. Hawortli, Mr. 

 Griffitlis, Rev. Mr. Hope, &c. &c. &c. 



Sir Stamford Raffles having been called 

 to the chair, a series of resolutions were 

 proposed and passed unaninnously for the 

 organization of the Society ; and a Presi- 

 dent, Council, and Officers appointed. An 

 opening address was then read by the 

 President, explanatory of the past and 

 present state of Zoology in tliis country, 

 and of the objects and views of the 

 society. 



In addition to the friends of the .Esta- 

 blishment present at the meeting, the Socie- 

 ty already numbers amongst its most zea- 

 lous supporters — H. R. H. the Duke of 

 Sussex, the Dukes of Somerset, Northum- 

 berland, and Bedford ; the Marquesses of 

 Hertford, Salisbury, and Stafford ; Earls 

 Carnarvon, Caledon, Cower, Hardvvicke, 

 Lonsdale, Malmsbury, Mountnorris, Min- 

 to, Spencer, Stanhope, Winchclsea, Or- 

 ford, iind Grosvenor ; Viscount Dudley and 

 Ward, Viscount Gage ; the Bishops of 

 Bath and Wells, London, and Carlisle ; 

 Lords Calthorpe, Clifton, DoMiies, Ducie, 

 Ellenborough, Levison Govrer, Holland, 

 Lovaine, and Selsey ; Rt. Hon. Charles Ar- 

 buthnot, Rt. Hon. Sir Charles Long, Bt. 

 Hon. Sir George Rose, Rt. Hon. Robt. 

 Peel, Rt. Hon. Sir John Leach, Rt. Hon. 

 the Lord Mayor, Rt. Hon. John Beckett, 

 Rt. Hon. F. C. Robinson, Hon. Col. 

 Bligh, Hon. G. Agar Elli.s, Hon. Capt. 

 Percy, Hon. Wm. S. Ponsonby, Hon. R, 

 Stopford, Hon. and Rev. Dr. Wellesley, 

 Sir H. Banbuiy, Sir C. H. Cootc, Sir San- 

 ford Graham, Sir Robt. Heron, Sir Benj. 

 Hobhouse, Sir W. Jardine, Sir I. Shelley, 

 Sir J. T. Staunton, Sir J. Croft, Sir F. 

 Baker, Sir Thos. Lawrence, Sir W. F. 

 Middleton, Sir W. Rawson, Sir P. C. 

 Silvester, Admiral Sir C. Pole, Sir I. E. 

 Smith, Sir H. Halford, &c. &c. &c. 



F O R K I G N. 



ASIATIC SOCIETV OF CALCUTTA. 



A meeting of the members of the Asiatic 

 Society was held at Chouringhee, on Wed- 

 nesday the 2d November, the Hon. J. H. 

 Harrington, Esq. President, in the chair. 



At this meeting the Hon. Sir Charles 

 Grey, Mr. J. Paxton, Captain T. Macan, 

 and Mr. Conolly were unanimously elected 

 members of the Society. 



The Secretary read a paper by Lieut.- 

 Col. V. Blacker, on the geographical 

 boundaries of India. The Secretary also 

 read a letter from Mr. Moorcroft, dated 

 Cashmere, the 8th of February 1S23, but 

 owing to the difficulties of transmission 

 from that remote quarter, it was not re- 

 ceived before the 2d of November 1825. 

 The letter contains a sketch of the language 

 of Thibet, illustrated by drawijigs of the 



various alphabets employed in that country. 

 Mr. Moorcroft has sent, at the same time, 

 some stereoty])e line engravings of mytho- 

 logical and real personages, and a few pen 

 drawings executed in a similar style. 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF PARIS. 



Meeting of February 6tk. — The following 

 persons were admitted members. — Messrs. 

 Biart ; A. H. Brue, geographer; Gros, 

 professor at the Royal College of St. Louis; 

 Pacho, a traveller late from Cyrenais, P. 

 Wynch, in the serv'ice of the English East- 

 India Company. M. de Hammer com- 

 municated to the Council certain fragments 

 relative to Masondi, and the origin of the 

 Thousand and One Nights. 



M. Klaproth communicated the contents 

 of a work, which he proposes to publish, on 

 the ancient Turkish dialect, called Coman. 



M. Jonannin, of Constantinople, trans- 

 mitted to the Council a memoir of M. 

 Ruffin, for insertion in the Journal Asia- 

 tique ; also the design of an ancient monu^ 

 ment, found in a valley near Nicomedia. 



M. Coesar Moreau transmitted from Lon- 

 don some tables relating to the commerce 

 of the East-India Company, also a dona- 

 tion of a Chinese celestial planisphere, of 

 which M. Abel Remusat will give an ac- 

 count at the ensuing meeting. 



Some passages were communicated of a 

 letter from Count Rzewouski, of Warsaw, 

 relative to the labours of M. Majewski on 

 the Sanscrit language, and announcing the 

 transmission of a work by the latter. 



A passage of a letter from M. L. Van 

 Alstin, of Ghent, to Messrs. Dondey 

 and Dupre was communicated, offering 

 the means of making scientific researches 

 into different parts of Asia. 



The President then delivered a Report 

 of the Presentation made to the King on 

 the 31st January, of the first six volumes 

 of the Jourruil Asialique. 



HELVETIC SOCIETY OF PUBLIC UTILITY. 



The proceedings of this society have re- 

 ference to three objects. Public education 

 andparticularlythatoftlie lower classes— in- 

 dustry, and improved means of its applica- 

 tion, more especially in favour of the poorer 

 classes — public assistance, or the investiga- 

 tion of means for relieving the sufferings of 

 our fellow creatures. The meetings of this 

 society take place in the different cantons 

 alternately, and occasion a national and 

 domestic festival. That for the last year 

 was held in the city of Lucerne ; it was 

 numerously attended ; and seventy new 

 members, of whom twenty-four were the 

 most distinguished inhabitants of Geneva, 

 were elected. The jiroceedings were open- 

 ed by the Councillor of State E. Pfyffer ; 

 and the meeting, which lasted for two days, 

 and for six hours during each day, was in- 

 sufficient for the perusal of every communi- 

 cation. According to ancient usage the 

 members afterwards diiied togetlier, and 



