646 Asiatic Society. [Dec. 



the Secretary of the Asiatic Society, and extending to the Journal of the 

 Asiatic Society, should cease from the 4th June, 1834. 



After some discussion, the Secretary was empowered, in any representa- 

 tion he might think fit to make to the Government, on the plea of his en- 

 gagement to print official documents of a scientific nature, to express the 

 earnest desire of the Society for the continuance of a privilege which has 

 already proved so highly beneficial to the interests and extension of Science 

 in India. 



Library. 



The following Books were presented : 



Marcel's Contes Arabes du Cheykh El-mohdy, for July, August, September, 

 October, and November, 1832, and February, March, April, and May, 1833 — by 

 the Author. 



Journal Asiatique, 64, 65 — by the Asiatic Society of Paris. 



Abdul Mujeed's edition of the Seyr-ul Mutakhereen, 1 vol. — by the Editor. 



Sixth volume of the Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society — by the 

 Society. 



Select Speeches of John Serjeant of Pennsylvania — by Herambanath Thakoor. 



The following works, published under the auspices of the General Com- 

 mittee of Public Instructions, were forwarded by the Secretary, Mr. J. C. 

 C. Sutherland. 



Inaya, vol. 4. Fatawa Alemgiri, vol. 4. 



Kefaya, vols. 3 and 4. Raghuvansa. 



Aphorisms of Hippocrates. Retnavali. 



Sudeedee. Wilson's Sanscrit Dictionary. 



Meteorological Registers from July to November, 1833 — by the Surveyor Gene- 

 ral. 



MS. Register of the Weather at Jorhat, Assam, for the months of August and 

 September, 1833 — by Mr. H. Bigge. 



The following books were received from the book-sellers : 



Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia, Herschel's Astronomy. 



. Chronology of History. 



Read an extract of a letter from Captain J. B. Jervis, Bombay Engineers. 



The letter announces, that the writer is engaged in the publication of a systematic 

 account of the weights and measures of India, to which is annexed an account of 

 Indian Chronology, gleaned from the Vedas, Siddhantas, Puranas, &c. and brought 

 into one view with the systems that have prevailed in all ages over the world. 

 Whence he hat, deduced that all have a common origin, and that the measures of 

 time in use among the Hindus were introduced so late as A. D. 607-8. The work 

 is in octavo, 700 pages, and is now nearly through the press. It is to be published 

 by subscription. 



Resolved, that the prospectus be circulated among the members, and a 

 list of subscribers returned to Captain Jervis. 



Antiquities. 



A large Lingam, from the Jangira rock — presented by Lieut. T. S. Burt, 

 Engineers. 



