1837.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 317 



erroneous locality is possessed of a temperate climate, whereas the real 

 one is occasionally subject to the invasion of fields of ice, and therefore 

 more strongly contrasted with the observed habitats in the vicinity 

 of the line, and in the Bay of Bengal. 



VII. — Proceedings of the Asiatic Society* 



Wednesday Evening, 3rd May, 1837. 



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



Colonel D. Macleod, Engrs. M. A. Bignell, Esq. Capt. S. F. Hannay, 

 and Dr. W. Griffith, were elected Members of the Society. 



Dr. J. Swiney and Lieut. M. Kittoe, 6th N. I. were proposed by the 

 Secretary, seconded by Capt. Cunningham. 



Professor O'Shaughnessy, proposed by Dr. Corbyn, seconded by Sir 

 E. Ryan. 



G. W. Bacon, Esq. C S. proposed by Dr. Falconer, seconded by Mr. 

 Macnaghten. 



Francis Robinson, Esq. C. S. Futtehgurh, proposed by Captain 

 Forbes, seconded by Mr. Macnaghten. 



The Bishop of Cochin-China returned thanks for his election. 



Read extract of a letter from Major Troyer, the Society's Agent at 



Paris, proposing that honorary membership should be conferred on Baron 



Schilling of Cronstadt, the Mongolian and Tibetan scholar. 



[Referred to the Committee of Papers.] 



Major Troyer mentions that M. Guizot, Minister of Public Instruction, is about 

 to sanction a yearly grant of about 2,000 francs, for procuring copies of Sanskrit 

 manuscripts from Calcutta. The study of the Oriental languages is increasing fast 

 on the Continent, and a fresh supply of our publications indented for on London has 

 been immediately disposed of. Capt. Troyer's French translation of the Raja 

 Tarangini would not issue from the press under a year, on account of the difficulties 

 of printing the Sanskrit text. 



Read a letter from the Secretary to Government, General Department, 

 directing the packages of Oriental books to be sent to the Export Ware- 

 house-keeper, and passing the bill for their package, Rs. 17. 



The Secretary reported the death of Behadur, the pensioned furash of 

 the Museum, who had been on the establishment since Sir William 

 Jones's time. He was with his wife burnt to death in one of the late 

 dreadful conflagrations. 



The account current of the Society with Messrs. Morris, Prevost and 

 Co. shewed a balance of £75 18 1 in favor, after paying the arrears due 

 to the Oriental Translation Fund. 



A letter from N. Carlisle, Sec. Antiquarian Society, dated November, 

 1836, acknowledged the receipt of the Journal for 1835. 

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