1833.5 Asiatic Society. 547 
Read, a letter from the Rev. Dr. Burrow, forwarding the printed pros- 
pectus of a plan for an expedition into Central Africa, and requesting the 
encouragement and assistance of the Physical Class of the As. Soc. 
Resolved, that the funds of the Society are not in a state to allow a con- 
tribution towards the objects of the African expedition, but that the aid of 
individuals be invited by circulation of the prospectus amongst the mem- 
bers*. 
Library. 
The following books were presented : 
Third part of the sixteenth volume of the Transactions of the Linnzan Society, 
together with a list of its members, for 1832—6y the Society. 
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, part 2nd, vol. 4th, new 
series—by the Society. 
Memoirs of the Astronomical Society of London, vol. 5th—by the Society. 
Report of the First and Second Meetings of the British Association for the ad- 
vancement of Science—by the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. 
Proceedings of the Natural History Society of the Mauritius, for June, 1833—éy 
the Society. 
Proceedings of the Geological Society of London, No, 28—by the Society. 
Madras Journal of Literature and Science—by the Madras Literary Society. 
Journal Asiatique, Nos. 58, 62, and 63—4éy the Asiatic Society of Paris. 
Thirteenth and fourteenth volumes of the Transactions of the Batavian Society— 
by the Society. 
Second Annual Report of the Council of the Naval and Military Library and 
Museum—Jy Messrs. Bagshaw and Co. for the Council. 
Von Hamner’s History of the Ottoman Empire, 9th volume, and some loose 
tracts—by the Author. 
Jahrbucher der Literature, vols. 57, 58, 59, and 60—dy Councellor Von Hammer. 
Marcoz, Astronomie Solaire Simplifiee—by H. T. Colebrooke, Esq. 
De Tassy, Memoire sur le Systeme Metrique des Arabes—by the Author, 
Leipziger Literature Zeitung, Nos. 206, 207, 208, and 209—dy the Editor. 
D. H. Firron on the Progress of Geology in England—by the Author. 
Ditto’s Geological Sketch of the Vicinity of Hastings—by the Author. 
A short system of Polite Learning, compiled and translated by Maha Raja Kari 
Kissen Bahadur—by the Translator. 
Select Extracts from Lord CHESTERFIELD’s Advice to his Son, translated into 
Bengalee, by RapHANATH DEy—bdy the Translator. 
SrocauELeEr’s Fifteen Months’ Pilgrimage through untrodden tracts of Khuzistan 
and Persia—by the Author. 
The following books were received from the Book-sellers : 
LarRpDNER’s Cabinet Cyclopedia—British Admirals, Ist vol. 
Tron and Steel, 2nd vol. 
Christian Church, Ist vol. 
Library of Useful Knowledge—Wanpineron’s History of the Church, 
Spain and Portugal. 
* Printed on the cover of the present number. 
or Bw 
