150 Asiatic Society. (Mancry, 
amounted from the time that the Society became its own publisher to, Rs. 82000 
While the return by sales has been { an E ngland, Bs. 3200 
in India, 6000 9200 
leaving a balance of loss on 13 volumes, Rs. 72,800 
Baboo Ram Comul Sen proposed that in future the matter for publication should 
be transmitted to Europe, where a printer may be found to print it on his own 
account, Mr. Wilson kindly correcting the press*. 
After some discussion a Committee composed of Dr. J. Tytler, Major 
Benson, Dr. J. T. Pearson, and Mr. J. R. Colvin, was appointed to consi- 
der on the best mode of publishing the continuation of the Researches. 
Extract of a letter from J. F. Royle, Esq. to the Secretary was read, an- 
nouncing the intended publication of his “ Illustrations of the Botany and 
Physical Geography of the Himalaya mountains and Kashmere.” 
Library. 
The following books were laid on the table :— 
Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, vol. xi. 2nd part, and 
vol. xii. Ist part—presented by the Society. 
Professor Buckland’s account of the animal and vegetable remains and of 
rocks collected in Ava by Mr. Crawfurd—by the author, through Dr. Wallich. 
Ditto on the oceurrence of the remains of elephants, &c. in the frozen 
mud of Behrings Straits—by ditto. 
Proceedings of the Royal Asiatic Society at the Anniversary Meeting of 
Saturday, 7th June, 1832—presented by the Society. 
Proceedings of the Mauritius Natural History Society, for September and 
October, 1832—by the Society. 
Journal Asiatique, No. 56, August, 1832—from the Asiatie Society of Paris. 
Meteorological Register for February—from the Surveyor General. 
Syr-ul-Mutakherin, 1st volume—presented by the publisher and editor, Mulvé 
Abdil Mojid. 
Anglo-Persian Anecdotes, translated by Krishnachundra Ghose.—Pre- 
sented by Raja Kalikrishna Buhddur. 
The following works, received from the Oriental Translation Fund of 
Great Britain and Ireland. 
Fraser’s Annals of the Turkish Empire, from A. D. 1591 to 1659, 1st vol. 
Stewart’s Tezkereh al Vakidt, or Private Memoirs of the Moghul Emperor Hu- 
mayan, 1 vol. 
Klaproth’s San Kokf Tsou Ran To Sets, ou Apergu general des trois Royaumes, 
with a volume of plates. 
Stenzler’s Raghuvansa, Kalidase Carmen, Sanskrité et Latiné, 1 vol. 
The Geographical works of Sadik Isfahani, translated by J. C. 
Julitn’s Hoei Lan-ki, ou Vhistoire du cercle, de craie, drame en prose et en vers, 
1 vol. 
* This is however hardly a fair way of stating the case: the members are in fact 
the purchasers of the Society’s volumes, which they pay for by their subscriptions, 
Publication is the main object and the main expence of every literary association ; 
without which it would be of comparatively little utility or interest to the world. 
