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IV.—Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 
Wednesday Evening, the 31st July, 1833. 
The Hon’ble Sir Epwarp Ryan, President, in the Chair. 
The Proceedings of the last Meeting were read. 
Captain C. M. Wapz, Political Agent at Ludiana, proposed at the last 
Meeting, was elected a Member of the Society. 
Dr. J. T. Pearson was elected Curator of the Society’s Museum of 
Natural History. 
The Secretary submitted the Report of the Committee appointed on the 
27th March, regarding the continuance of the Boring Experiment [see below } 
which was read, and it was resolved, that the Society adopt the Report of the 
Committee, and direct it be forwarded to Government, in reply to the com- 
munication from Major Benson, Mil. Sec., &c. 
The Secretary reported the completion of the second part of the 18th 
volume of the Asiatic Researches, or Transactions of the Physical Class, 
and submitted a bill from the Military Orphan Press, for Rupees 1962, being 
the expence incurred in its publication. 
Resolved, that the bill be discharged from the fund invested in Government 
Securities, and that the usual distribution of copies be made. 
Mr. A. Csoma pe Koros’ Manuscript Abstract of the Contents of the 
Kaueyur, and his comparative Index of Tibetan and Sanskrit Proper Names 
and Titles, as arranged by the pandits and Tibetan /otsdvas (translators), when 
compiling the sacred books of the Suaxya faith, in the Tibetan language, 
having been brought again to the notice of the Society, it was resolved to re- 
fer them tothe Committee of papers, to determine on the expediency of 
making them over to the Local Committee of Oriental Translation Fund, 
with a recommendation for their early transmission to England for publica. 
tion through that channel. 
Library. 
The following books were presented : 
Journal Asiatique, Nos. 57, 59, 60, 61—By-the As. Soc. of Paris. 
The third series of J. Prinsep’s Lithographic Illustrations of Benares—By the 
Author. 
A Meteorological Register for the first six months of 1833, kept at Kyook 
Phyoo—By Colonel W. H. Wood. 
_ Calcutta Meteorological Register for June—By the Surveyor General. 
The following, received from the Booksellers: 
Lardner’s Cabinet Cyclopedia, Spain and Portugal, vol. 5. 
Lardner’s Treatise on Heat. 
Be. Museum, — 
A note was read from M. Z. Bramley, Esq. presenting for the Society’s 
Museum the following articles procured by him in Nipal. 
A Chinese map of the Celestial Empire. 
A map of his imperial Majesty’s Durbar. 
“ Nipalese musical instruments, curiously fashioned like snakes and dragons, 
3 Horns called in Hindi ** Bhorang.” 
