300 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [June, 



VII. — Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 

 Wednesday Evening, the 2nd July, 1834. 



The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Calcutta, Vice-President, in the chair. 



Read the Proceedings of the last Meeting. 



Read letter from Dr. A. Hamilton, and Capt. William Foley, acknow- 

 ledging their election as members of the Society. 



Read a letter from M. A. Langlois, Professor of the University of 

 France, acknowledging his election as an honorary Member of the Society. 



Read extract of a letter from T. Clemishaw, Esq. stating that he regrets 

 being obliged to withdraw from the Society from motives of economy. 



Read a letter from H. T. Prinsep, Esq. Secretary to Government in the 

 General Department, forwarding copy of a letter from Monsieur Cordier, 

 administrator of the French Possessions in Bengal, soliciting on behalf of a 

 learned Society at Paris, a complete set of Meteorological Tables for this 

 country, from January, 1823, to June, 1834. 



Resolved, that such records as exist for the period in question shall be 

 placed at the disposal of the French Society. 



Library. 



Read a letter from Edward T. Bennett, Esq. Secretary of the Zoological 

 Society of London, forwarding the Journal of their proceedings, January to 

 October, 1833, together with the first part of 1st volume of their Transac- 

 tions, for presentation to the Society. 



The following books were also presented : 



Memoirs of the Astronomical Society of London, 6th vol. — by the Society. 



De la Beche's Geological Manual, 3rd edition — by the Author. 



Chrestomathie Chinoise, comprising six Chinese works, (including the Santsuk- 

 ing, or Vocabulary, in three characters,) lithographed at Paris under the charge of 

 Monsr. Klaproth, at the expence of the French Asiatic Society — by the Society. 



Observation on Cholera Asphyxia, by J. Hutchinson, Esq. — by the Author. 



Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society, vol. vii. Pt. 1 — by the 

 Society. 



The Indian Journal of Medical Science, Nos. 5, 6, and 7 — by Messrs. J. Grant 

 and J. T. Pearson, Editors. 



The Bytul Pachisee, and the second edition of the " Vidvun Moda Taranginee,'' 

 translated into English, by Raja Kalikishen — presented by the Author. 



Meteorological Register for May, 1834 — by the Surveyor General. 



Ditto, kept at Cawnpore, for October, November, and December, 1832, and 

 March, April, and May, 1833 — by Lieut. Col. Pollock, C. B. 



Read extracts from a letter addressed to the Secretary by Professor H. 

 H. Wilson, announcing the receipt of the Moorcroft Manuscripts sent 

 home under charge of Lieut. Burnes, and stating that an arrangement was 

 under negociation to print them free of expence to the Society. 



" Part of the journals, digested and corrected as I propose, have been already 

 placed in the publisher's (Murray's) hands. I sought for Trebeck's map, at the 

 India House for some time in vain, but at last found it had been incorporated 

 with other cis-Himalayan maps, by Mr. Walker in his atlas. He is willing to 

 prepare it in as much detail as Trebeck's field books will allow." (We have rea- 

 son to know that the matter incorporated in Walker's atlas was taken from « 



