410 Asiatic Society, [Aug. 



VIII. — Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 



Wednesday Evening, the 3rd September, 1834. 



The Reverend W. H. Mill, D. D. Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Read the Proceeding's of last Meeting. 



Read a letter from Mr. M. M. Manuk, intimating his desire to withdraw 

 from the Society. 



Read a letter from H. Harkness, Esq. Secretary to the Royal Asiatic 

 Society of Great Britain and Ireland, expressing the thanks of that So- 

 ciety for the 17th volume of the Asiatic Reseai*ches. 



The Secretary apprized the Society, of the arrival per Ship Edmonstone, 

 of the twenty copies of the ancient Canarese Alphabet adverted to on the 

 Meeting of 28th May, 1834, as presented by Walter Elliot, Esq. 

 through the Bombay Branch Asiatic Society. 



It was resolved that copies of the Alphabet should be sent to the Bishop's Col- 

 lege, the Education Commiltee, the Sanscrit College at Benares, and to such per- 

 sons as may be engaged in decyphering ancient inscriptions. 



Library. 



Read a letter from Dr. N. Wallich, presenting on the part of the 

 Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries at Copenhagen, the following works 

 with complimentary expressions : 



A circular accompanied, explaining the objects of the association, and 

 soliciting the co-operation of those, especially of the English nation, who 

 may be able to assist in developing the early history of Northern Europe. 



[A copy of the prospectus is printed on the cover of the present number.] 



1. E. Rask's Commentatio de pleno systemate decern sibilantium in Unguis 

 montanis, item de methodo Ibericam et Armenicam linguam litteris Europseis ex- 

 primendo. Hafnise, 1832, 4to. 



2. Ditto, Singalesisk Skriftlserr, (Cingalese Grammar,) Colombo, 1821, 8vo. 



3. Ditto, Vejledmnff, or Introduction to the Akra language of the Coast of 

 Guinea, with an Appendix on the Akvambu language. 



4. Ditto, Lapponic Grammar. 



5. Ditto, Italian Grammar ? 1827. 



6. Ditto, on Ancient Egyptian Chronology. Copenhagen, 1817, 4to. 



7. Ditto, on Ancient Hebrew Chronology, 1828, 8vo. 



8. Old Northern Saga's (Tales). Edited by the R. S. of North Antiquities, 

 11th vol. 1833. 



9. Fareyinga Saga, or A History of the Inhabitants of the Islands called the 

 Fseroes. The original Icelandic text, with translations into Fseroe, Danish, and 

 German, 1829. 



It). 11. Tidzskrift, Journal of the Northern Antiquities, by ditto. 



12. Nordisk Tids^hrift, Northern Journal of Antiquities. Edited by the Royal 

 Society of Northern Antiquities, 1826-9. 



13. Paradisa Missir, (Paradise Lost,) translated into Icelandic, by Joe Thor- 

 laksson. 



14-15. Scripta Historica Islandorum, vols. iv. and v. Hafnise, 1833. 



16-17. Logboklslandinga, Codex Juris IslandorumAntiquissimus,I.and II. 1829. 



18. L. Giesebrecht. The R. S. of N. Antiquities at Copenhagen. 



