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IX — Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 



Thursday Evening, the 20th March, 1834. 



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



Read the Proceedings of the last meeting. 



Mr. Alexander Csoma de Koros, proposed by Mr. Trevelyan, second- 

 by Mr. J. Prinsep, was elected an Honorary Member. 



The Secretary announced that a vacancy had been caused in the office of 

 Vice-President, by the departure of Sir John Franks, when a ballot was 

 held, and the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Calcutta was declared 

 unanimously elected. 



Read a letter from G. Money, Esq. expressing his wish to withdraw from 

 the Society. 



Read a letter from Rev. W, Yates, stating that he would prefer publish- 

 ing his Translation of the Nalodaya in this country, on his own account, 

 under the patronage of the Asiatic Society, with the hopes that the Asiatic 

 Society would, in addition to their own subsci iption, forward the specimens 

 to the Oriental Translation Fund, with a recommendation that they should 

 also patronize the work, or adopt it on the list of their publications. Refer- 

 red to the Committee of Papers. 



Read a letter from the Assignees of Mackintosh and Co. forwarding 

 proposals for a lottery of the household property of the late firm, and 

 soliciting the Society as a creditor to invest a portion of its claim in the 

 same, at 2,000 rupees per ticket, there being 2,500 tickets, and 14 prizes, 

 valued at a total of 5,20,000 rupees. 



Moved by Mr. Bagshaw, seconded by Mr. Hare, and resolved, that the 

 Society cannot entertain the proposal. 



Read a letter from J. Robison, Esq. Secretary to the Royal Society of 

 Edinburgh, expressing the thanks of the Society for the present of the 

 XVII. Vol. of their Transactions. 



Read a letter from Mr. C. E. Trevelyan, presenting for the Museum, on 

 behalf of His Excellency the Right Hon'blethe Governor General, a native 

 picture representing the interview between His Lordship and the Maharao 

 and Raj Rana of Kota, which took place at Ajmere in January, 1832. 



Library. 



The following Books were presented : 



Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh for the years 1832-33, Nos. 1 

 and 2 — by the Society. 



Transactions of the Batavian Society, vol. 15 — by the Society. 



The letters of T. on the employment of the English language as a medium for 

 Native Education — by the Author. 



The Indian Journal of Medical Science, Nos. 2 and 3 — by Messrs. J. Grant and 

 J. T. Pearson, Editors. 



Ceylon Almanac, for 1834 — by his Exc. Sir R. W. Horton, Gov. Ceylon. 

 [This volume, like the preceding vol. for 1833, contains much original and valu- 

 able information on the ancient history, antiquities and geography of Ceylon.] 



