50 Asiatic Society. [Jan. 



of material benefit to distant members, who have become more connected with the 

 main body through these means, and have frequently applied for books which they 

 have seen announced, or have taken part in discussions going forward within our 

 walls, and have become more active contributors of new facts in the literature and 

 science of the vast country within our range. The good effect of publishing and 

 spreading abroad at once all that goes forward in our Society cannot be better 

 proved than by instancing the letter read this evening from the Secretary to the 

 Bombay Branch of the Asiatic Society, which was before ignorant that any volume of 

 Researches had been published later than the fourteenth ! That the published Re- 

 Siarches are not so wellknown, or so generally distributed, as they ought to be, may 

 be implied from the complaint in the third volume of Professor Heeren's Historical 

 Researches, that he was only able to get access to the first twelve volumes of the 

 Transactions. All this will now be corrected through the activity of our agent, the 

 Boden Professor, whose interference has already been visibly productive of amend- 

 ment in the despatches of books from Europe, latterly left too much at the discre- 

 tion of the book -seller. 



The number of members at present on the list is 85 : the diminution during the 

 past year has been, by death, 2 ; by retirement to England, and other causes, 10 : 

 the addition from new elections has been 14. 



The receipts and disbursements, as abstracted from the collector's general account, 

 are exhibited in the accompanying statement. They contain many items belonging 

 properly to the last year ; such as the printing of the last two volumes, which have 

 necessitated an encroachment on the stock of the Society to the extent of 7500 ru- 

 pees. Strict economy has however been preserved with regard to the expences of 

 the present year — the whole, including a remittance of £'100 to our agent in Eng- 

 land, being within the sum absolutely collected in the same period, and leaving a 

 balance in hand, if the outstanding quarterly bills be included, of nearly five thou- 

 sand rupees. 



Payments. 

 To paid Military Orphan Press, for 



printing 500 copies of the 18th 



vol. Asiatic Researches, 4,286 14 



To Bill for Repairs, Museum &c. 



passed in December, 1832, 1,023 15 1 



7'o Establishment from Dec. 1832 to 



31st Oct. 1833. 1,9,33 11 



To Contingent expences, 115 12 9 



To Orphan Press Bills, for Binding, 206 



To Dufturees, for ditto, 206 3 



To 12 copies, 1st vol. Journ. As. Soc. 144 

 To Museum Collection and Cabinets, 109 



To Repairs of House, 77 13 9 



To Orphan Press for printing 500 co- 

 pies, 2nd part of the 18th vol. 



Asiatic Researches, 1,962 



To engraving Maps and Plates, ■ ••• 316 8 



To Experimental Boring, 500 



To remitted to H. H.Wilson, Esq. 



£100, as Agent in England, 923 1 3 



11,804 14 10 

 By Balancelof Cash in hand, this day, 20 8 5 



Receipts. 



By the Sale of Researches, 160 



By Subcriptions collected, 3,904 



By Interest on 7,500, Paper sold 243 12 5 



By Sale of Company's Paper, 7,429 10 11 



By cash from Government for the 



Burmese Image Pedestal, 88 



Sicca Rupees 11.825 7 3 



Stock and Dependencies. 

 Company's paper deposited with the 



Government agents, 17,500 



Interest for one year (not drawn),- • 700 

 Outstanding Quarterly Bills, reco- 

 verable, 4,286 



Dividends on Macintosh & Co'sDebt 

 Sicca Rupees, 11,825 7 3 of 11,964. 6. 6. 



With regard to the collection of the quarterly contributions, the late unfortu- 

 nate failures have necessarily caused much inconvenience both to the collector and 

 to absent members, and to this cause may be attributed the apparently large amount 

 on the defaulters' list. Still there are some names against which too large a balance 

 appears to stand as due, and it is for the Society to determine, whether the mem- 

 bers thus continuing in default are to be allowed the privilege of calling themselves 



