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volumes of the Asiatic Researches, and announcing thatMr.WALTERELLiOT 

 of the Madras Civil Service, had placed in his hands, for presentation to the 

 Society, 20 copies of the ancient Canarese Alphabet, lithographed in Bombay 

 through the liberality of the Right Honorable the Earl of Clare. 



Library. 



Read a letter from J. Vaughan, Esq., Librarian of the American Philo- 

 sophical Society, forwarding on behalf of Isaac Hays, Esq. M. D. descrip- 

 tions of the fossil Mastodons in the Philadelphian Museum. 



The following books were presented : 



Malatimadhavee, Fabulse Bhavabhutis, actus primus, ex Recensione Christiani 

 Lasseni, Prof. Bonn. — By the author. 



Gymnosophista, sive Indicse Philosophise Documenta : 1 fascicvdus, by Professor 

 Lassen. — Ditto. 



Journal Asiatique, No. 70. — By the As. Soc. of Paris. 



Meteorological Register, for April, 1834. — By the Surveyor General. 

 The following books received from the book-sellers : 



Lardner's Cab. Cyclopedia, Middle Ages, 2nd vol. 



, British Admirals, 2nd vol. 



Library of Useful Knowledge, Lives of Eminent Persons. 



Museum. 



A large Asamese ornamented chhatta was presented by Dr. Burlini. 



A stuffed Saw-fish, eight feet in length — purchased. 



Two boxes of geological specimens, collected in the course of a survey of 

 the river Satlej, from Ludiana to its confluence with the Indus — presented by 

 Captain C. M. Wade. 



Antiquities. 



Read a letter from H. Walters, Esq. forwarding fac similes of the inscrip- 

 tion on the Ramree stone, and a rough translation in Persian and English, 

 made by himself, with the aid procurable in Arracan. 



The stone was found in Ramree. It had been brought from a temple somewhere 

 in the island to Kyuk Phyii, whence it was shipped off, both to serve as a speci- 

 men of the sandstone of Arracan and as a curious monument : there were several 

 similar in different parts of the province. 



Mr. Walters also forwarded specimens of shells encrusted with stalactite from 

 the Musmye Cavern, Silhet ; this cave is remarkable for the sparkling purity of 

 its calcareo us encrustations, which give it a singularly clean and imposing appear- 

 ance. 



The Secretary submitted the fac simile of an inscription in the Burma 

 language, and Pali character, found at Gya, and copied by the pandit in 

 attendance on the Burmese ambassador, with a translation of the same, as 

 explained by Ratna Paula. 



[Printed in the present number.] 



Read extracts of letters from B. H. Hodgson, Esq, resident at Nepal, 

 on the subject of inscriptions in the character No. 1, of the Allahabad 

 column, and forwarding a native drawing of the Matthia Lat'h, situated in a 

 wilderness, between Bettiah and the Gandak river, in the Sdran district, 

 with an accurate transcript of its inscription. Also an accurate fac simile 



