238 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society . [March, 



IX. — Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 

 Wednesday Evening, 5th April, 1837. 



The Hon'ble Sir Edward Ryan, President, in the chair. 



Mr. Henry Torrens, Colonel Joseph de Hezeta, and Mr. Storm 

 were unanimously elected Members. 



The Right Reverend Jean Louis, Bishop of Isauropolis and Vicar 

 Apostolic of Cochin-China, was, on the favorable report of the Committee 

 of Papers, unanimously elected an Honorary Member. 



Colonel D. Macleod, Chief Engineer, and Captain S. F. Hannay, were 

 proposed by Captain Pemberton, seconded, the former by Major Taylor, 

 the latter by the Secretary. 



Mr. M. A. Bignell was proposed by the Rev. Dr. Mill, seconded by 

 Mr. Dobbs. 



Dr. W.Griffith proposed by the Secretary, seconded by Mr. W. Speir. 



An estimate for the repair of the Society's premises was submitted, but 

 it was resolved to postpone such repairs as were not urgent until next 

 year. 



An estimate for the repair of Sir W. Jones's monument was submitted 

 by Messrs. Llewelyn and Co. amounting to Rs. 191 : also deferred. 



Library. 



The Secretary reported that, in obedience to the instructions of Govern- 

 ment, he had selected and packed, for transmission to the Honorable Court 

 of Directors, the duplicates of the Sanskrit, Arabic, and Persian manu- 

 scripts, transferred from the College Library. 



The following books were presented. 



A grammar of the Sindhi language— by the author, H. Wathen, Esq-, Chief Secre- 

 tary to the Bombay Government. 



Dispatches of the Marquis Wellesley, 2 vols.— presented by Government through 

 the Sec. General Department. 



A descriptive and illustrated catalogue of the Anatomical Museum of the Royal 

 College of Surgeons in London — by the College. 



President's address to the Geological 'Society, 1836, (copies for distribution) — by 

 C. Lyell, Esq. 



Scientific Memoirs selected from the Foreign Journals, a new periodical, Vol. I. 

 Part I. — by Richard Taylor, Esq. the Editor. 



The Madras As. Soc. Quarterly Journal, January, 1837 — % the Society. 



The Indian Medical Journal, and Scientific Review— by Dr. Corbyn. 



Meteorological Registers to March — by the Surveyor General. 



Museum of Antiquities. 



The Honorable F. Shore presented two pieces of sculpture brought 

 from the Goand country on the Nerbudda. One, an erect image of Bud- 

 dha, surmounted by an arch of celestial attendants; the other, an image 

 of Vishnu in the form of a snake intertwined with Lakshmi as Ndga kunya. 



Major Coventry delivered, on the part of Colonel Stacy, an accurate 

 cast of a curious piece of ancient sculpture discovered by this indefatiga- 

 ble antiquarian in the neighborhood of Mainpiiii, and conjectured by 

 him to be of a mixed Grecian and Buddhist style. 



" I have the pleasure to submit a drawing on a scale of one-eighth, of a Sculpture 

 on white marbie, which I found at the village of Prow or Pirow, about 12 kos W. 

 of Mainpuri. It was lying on the ground, where I conclude from the mound, the 

 original temple had stood. Finding so much of Grecian style in the ornamental 

 t.arts, I resolved to purchase it, if possible ; but after several months, having failed 

 in ray endeavours to induce the people to part with it, I sent a kalassi to take a cast. 

 In his hurry to finish his work and return to his family, lie took off the composition 



