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XII. — Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 



Thursday Evening 30th January, 1834. 

 The Rev. Principal W. H. Mill, Vice-President, in the chair. 

 After reading the proceedings of the last meeting, the Society proceeded 

 to ballot for the officers of the ensuing year, when Sir C. T. Metcalfe, Sir 

 J. Franks, Rev. Principal Mill, and Mr. W. McNaghten, were elected 

 Vice-Presidents : and 



J. Tytler, Esq. Capt. A. Troyer, C. E. Trevelyan, Esq. 



Baboo Ramcomul Sen, J. R. Col- Dr. J. T. Pearson, 



vin, Esq. D. Hare, Esq. 



Capt. W. N. Forbes, Dr. N. Wallich, 



were elected Members of the Committee of Papers. 



Messrs. Hamilton, Mackenzie, Stopford, and Beattie, proposed at the 

 last Meeting, were unanimously elected Members. 



Before proceeding to the business of the meeting, Mr. J. T. Pearson pro- 

 posed the following resolutions, which were carried unanimously : 



1. That the thanks of the Society be tendered to Mr. J. Prinsep, for his 

 liberality in circulating copies of the Journal, edited by him, gratuitously to 

 the Members. 



2. That under existing circumstances it is expedient that the Society 

 pay for all copies distributed to its members for the future, as well as for 

 the past year. 



Read a letter fromW. E. Frere, Esq. Secretary, Bombay Branch Royal 

 Asiatic Society, acknowledging the receipt of the 17th and 18th volume of 

 the Asiatic Researches, and requesting to be furnished with the 15th and 

 16th volumes. Also letters from H. Harkness, Esq. Sec. Roy. Asiatic So- 

 ciety, and from J. Fouhall, Esq. Soc. of the British Museum, advising re- 

 ceipt of the 17th volume. 



Read a letter from J. Tytler, Esq. Sec. Oriental Translation Commit- 

 tee, regretting that the state of their funds would not admit of their 

 undertaking the publication of Mr. Yates' Nalodaya, in India, and proposing 

 either to transmit it to the Home Translation Committee, or to subscribe for 

 copies, should the author prefer printing it on his own account. To be 

 referred to Mr. Yates. 



The Secretary read the following report on the accounts and proceeding 

 of the past year. 



Annual Report. 



" In drawing up a report upon the affairs of the Society for the past year, I shall 

 confine myself to points connected with the finances and constitution of the Society ; 

 the literary and scientific objects which have been brought forward during the year 

 have been already noticed in the printed proceedings of the monthly meetings, and 

 are therefore well known to all the members. The mode of publishing these proceed- 

 ings in detail, and furnishing lists of all the books presented, members elected, and 

 papers read, has only been adopted for the last two years ; but it has already been 

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