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ralists not in the Society, and foreigners visiting the place for scientific 

 objects, to join in these reunions. 



After much discussion, the Lord Bishop proposed, seconded by Sir 

 B. Malkin, that as 200 rupees was the sum actually wanted to support the 

 museum in its present state, a second application should be made to 

 Government for a temporary grant of that amount, pending the reference 

 to the Hon'ble the Court of Directors. 



Colonel Caulfield proposed as an amendment, that in addition to 

 the 200 rupees for the establishment, the Society should request a further 

 monthly sum of 800 rupees to be expended on the collection of specimens 

 of natural history and other objects of scientific interest, the produce to 

 be made over to Government as a repayment of advances, in case of an 

 unfavorable reply from the Hon'ble Court. 



The amendment having been put from the chair was carried by a large 

 majority. 



Dr. D. Stewart, secretary of the Statistical Committee, communicated 

 the following letter from Government on the subjects of the committee's 

 researches which were now progressing with vigour, although very speedy 

 or showy results were not yet to be expected. The following gentlemen 

 (Members of the Society) had by invitation been joined to the Committee : 

 Messrs. G. T. McClintock, H. Piddington, J. Curnin, J. Bignell, 

 J. Bell, Baboos Pkassonnocomar Tagore, and Rusomoy Dutt. 



To D. Stewart, Esq. 



Sec. to the Statistical Committee of the As. Soc. 

 Sir, 



I am directed by the Right Honorable the Governor of Bengal to acknowledge the 

 receipt of your letter of the 17th ultimo, and to request that you will inform the 

 Statistical Committee, that His Lordship has learnt with great satisfaction that 

 the Asiatic Society has directed its attention to a subject of the utmost importance, 

 for the details of which the Government has necessarily very little leisure. 



The Governor will gladly permit the Committee to have access as they request to 

 any Statistical documents of value which are deposited in any of the public offices 

 and to make public such parts of their coutents as may appear to deserve it. 



The circular letter which you allude to, in your 3rd paragraph as having issued 

 (under date the 25th of April last) to the several commissioners in the Lower 

 Provinces, was merely a requisition upon the several functionaries of Government 

 in the Judicial and Revenue Departments for all the aid which they could afford to 

 the Medical officers employed in collecting Statistical information. 



A copy of the instructions issued by the Medical Board to the officers under 

 their authority above-mentioned, is annexed for the information of the Statistical 

 Committee. 



After perusing that paper in connexion with the circular from this Department above 

 referred to, the Statistical Committee will perhaps be able to point out in what 

 manner all the means employed or available may be so used in union or collaterally 

 as to produce the effects most beneficial to the general interests of knowledge. 



The Committee are probably aware that a number of essays on subjects of 

 medical topography are in course of publication by the Medical Board. 



I have, &c. 



Fort William, i (Signed) R. D. Mangles, 



6th June, 1837. J Secy, to the Govt, of Bengal. 



Library. 



The following books were presented : 



The dispatches of the Marquis Welleslev, vol. III.— presented by the Hon'ble 

 Government of India. 



Marathee Atlas containing nine maps by Dadoba Panduring and Nana Na- 

 rayun— by the Author, through Mr. W. H. Wathen, Chief Sec. Bombay Government. 



Moysis Chorenensis Historial Arminiacae Libri III. Armenian and Latin, 

 London, 1736, Edition Whistoni— by Mr. Elias Avdall, through Mr. J. Avdall. 



Eusebii Pamphili Caesariensis Episcopi Chronicou Bipartium, Armenian and Latin 

 with Greek fragments, Venice, 1818, in 2 vols.— by ditto, ditto. 



Meteorological Register for May, 1837— by the Surveyor General. 



