298 Proceedings of Societies. [July, 



V. — Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 



Wednesday, the Uh July, 1832. 

 The Hon'ble Sir C. E. Grey, President, in the chair. 



1. Mr. J. Pearson was elected a Member of the Society, 



2. The Acting Secretary reported, that the amount of the late Dr. Bruce's 

 legacy had been received and invested in Government Securities. 



3. Upon the motion of Mr. F. C. Strong, seconded by Mr. D. Ross, the 

 following resolution was passed unanimously : 



" A Report upon the progress of the boring experiment having been sub- 

 mitted at the last meeting of the Physical Class, 13th June, from which it 

 appears, that a second perforation has been commenced upon and carried 

 down to the depth of 160 feet successfully, having been already tubed to the 

 depth of 120 feet : and further, the Government having expressed great in- 

 terest in the result of the experiment, and having through Colonel Case- 

 ment, Military Secretary, placed at the disposal of the Physical Class the ser- 

 vices of three European soldiers of the Sapper and Miner Corps, lately ar- 

 rived from England, who have been regularly instructed in the art of boring 

 for water, — 



Resolved, that a sum of Rs. 500, in addition to the 2000 already expend- 

 ed, be placed at the disposal of the Committee, for the further prosecution 

 of the boring experiment." 



4. For the Museum, — Mr. F. P. Strong presented a flying fish. 



Mr. J. F. Cathcart presented a specimen of a Cape fish, called there " Sea- 

 horse fish ;" also a pair of Cape pheasants. 



Captain Sanders, Engineers, presented an ancient coin recently procured 

 at Kanouj, by Mr. E. V. Irwin, C. S. 



5. For the Library. — The following rare and valuable works were pre- 

 sented by the Hon'ble Sir C. E. Grey, President. 



Lexicon Grseco-Latinum Constantini, 1592. 



Platonis Opera Omnia, 3 vols, folio, 1578. 



Aristotelis Opera Omnia, 11 vols. 4to. in 6, 1587. 



Ciceronis Opera Omnia, 10 vols. 4to. 1783. 



The works of Dugald Stewart, 5 vols. 4to. London. 



Histoire de la Philosophic Moderne, par Jean Gottlieb Buhle, 6 vols. 8vo. 



The following works were also laid on the table : 



Lament on the capture and destruction of Edessa, an Armenian Poem, writ- 

 ten in the middle of the twelfth century, hy Nierses Shinorbali, published in 

 Calcutta, in 1832 ; presented by the Editor Mr. John Avdall. 



Dictionary of the Tamul and French Languages, presented by Lieut. A. Blin, 

 Mem. As. Soc. Paris, who announces his intention of publishing a French trans- 

 lation of Shakespear's Hindustani Grammar, printed "par le procexle autogra- 

 phique." 



Meteorological Register for A pril— from the Surveyor General. 



