476 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [Sept. 



Extracts were read of private letters from Professor Wilson, and Mr. 

 George Swinton, on subjects interesting to the Society. 



The celebrated sculptor Chantrey has at last undertaken to execute the bust 

 of our late Secretary. Some delay is anticipated, as he is at present engaged in 

 a colossal equestrian statue of Sir Thomas Munro for Madras, and a full length 

 of Sir J. Malcolm for Bombay. 



A fresh supply of the 15th volume, Asiatic Researches, was required, all hitherto 

 sent home having been disposed of. 



Sir David Brewster is at present engaged in a work on the crystalline lenses 

 of animals, and he is anxious to procure specimens of the eyes of all the fishes of 

 the Ganges. Those who have opportunites of supplying this desideratum are 

 requested to wrap the eyes up in thin-sheet-lead, numbered with reference to a 

 catalogue of their names and species, and then all may be enclosed together in 

 spirits of wine. Mr. Swinton thus sent home the eyes of elephants, tigers, &c. 

 on a former occasion. 



Mr. Swinton, referring to the notice in page 304 of the Journal for July 1833, 

 intimates that he has received back from Sir D. Brewster the amount of Indian 

 subscriptions for the polyzonal lens, with bank interest at 2 per cent., and that he 

 holds it at the disposal of the subscribers to be paid to their agents in England. 

 (A notice to this effect is printed on the cover of the present month.) 



Library. 



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

 sophical Society, forwarding the undermentioned books for presentation. 



Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, volume 4th, part 3rd, new 

 series. 



Facts, observations, and conjectures relative to the Generation of the Opossum 

 of North America, in a letter from Professor Barton to Mons. Roome of Paris. 



Laws and Regulations of the American Philosophical Society. 



Note of the effect upon the magnetic needle of the Aurora Borealis visible at 

 Philadelphia on the 17th May 1833, by A. D. Backe. 



Observations on the disturbance in the direction of the horizontal needle, by 

 A. D. Backe. 



Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania ; and various pamphlets on 

 the subject of canals and institutions for education. 



The following works were also presented : 



Memoirs of the Astronomical Society, volume 7th— presented by that Society, 

 through the Honorable the Court of Directors. 



Select papers on expressing the languages of the East in the English character — 

 presented by Mr. Trevelyan. 



A brief account of the religion and civil institutions of the Burmans — by H. N. 

 Thakoor. 



Journal Asiatique, Nos. 73 and 75, — by the Asiatic Society of Paris. 



Boorh&ni Qatiu, a Dictionary of the Persian language, a new edition, edited 

 and printed by Hakim Abdulmojid — by the editor. 



Museum. 



Model of a musical instrument and a battle-axe used by the hill people 

 near Hazaribagh — presented by Lieutenant J. Awdry. 



