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from his information and research. As an ardent Botanist, indeed, he had done 

 much for the science in India, and one of the last works upon which he had heen 

 engaged, was the publication, as Editor, of his deceased friend Dr. Roxburgh's 

 Flora Tndica. 



His Bengalee, Marhatta, Telinga, and Punjabi dictionai-ies and grammars, 

 his translation of a portion of the Ram^yana, and other works, were on our 

 shelves, to testify the extent of his learning as an oriental scholar. It was well 

 known that he had prepared some time ago an elaborate dictionary of the 

 Sanscrit language, the manuscripts of which, and a considerable portion of 

 the work already printed off, the result of many years' intense labour and 

 study, had been destroyed by the fire which burnt down the Serampore premises. 

 He had also been of great assistance, as the author testified, in the editing of Ba- 

 boo Ram Comul Sen's Anglo-Bengalee Dictionary. 



The memory of those members, who had been longer associated with him than 

 liimself, would easily fill up this very imperfect estimate of his various services. 



During 40 years of a laborious and useful life in India, dedicated to the highest 

 objects which can engage the mind — indefatigable in his sacred vocation, active in 

 benevolence, yet finding time to master the languages and the learning of the East, 

 and to be the founder, as it were, of printing in these languages, he contributed by 

 his researches, and his publications, to exalt and promote the objects, for which the 

 Asiatic Society was instituted. The close of his venerable career should not there- 

 fore pass without a suitable record of the worth and esteem in which his memory 

 was held ; and His Lordship begged to move that the following minute be entered 

 on the Journals of the Society : — it was seconded by Colonel Sir Jer. Bryant, 

 and carried unanimously : 



" The Asiatic Society cannot note upon their proceedings the death of 

 the Rev. Wm. Carey, D. D., so long an active member and an ornament of 

 this Institution, distinguished alike for his high attainments in the oi'iental 

 languages, for his eminent services in opening the store of Indian literature 

 to the knowledge of Europe, and for his extensive acquaintance with the 

 sciences, the natural history and botany of this country, and his useful con. 

 tributions in every branch towards the promotion of the objects of the 

 Society, without placing on record this expression of their high sense of 

 his value and merits as a scholar and a man of science ; their esteem for 

 the sterling and surpassing religious and moral excellencies of his charac- 

 ter ; and their sincere grief for his irreparable loss." 



VIII. — Indian Zoology. 



Notices extracted from the proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 



January 22, 1833. 

 Mr. Bennett called the attention of the Society to a stuffed specimen of an An- 

 telope, from the southern part of the peninsula of India, which had been present, 

 ed to the Society several months since by Charles Telfair, Esq., Corr. Mem. 

 Z. S. He remarked, that notwithstanding some discrepancies between the speci- 

 men exhibited and the description published by Pallas, he was disposed to regard 



