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VII. — Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 

 Wednesday Evening, the 6th April, 1836. 



G. J. Gordon, Esq. Senior Member present, in the chair. 



Lieut.-Col. Caulfield, was proposed as a Member of the Society by 

 Mr. James Prinsep, seconded by Mr. Piddington. 



Mr. J. S. Stopford requested that his name might be withdrawn from 

 the Society. Mr. Stopford had deposited 80 Rupees with the Secretary, to 

 cover the cost of four volumes unfortunately lost by the wreck of his pin- 

 nace, until they shall be replaced from England. 



Read letters from Lieut. A. Cunningham, Engrs., and Raja Vijaya- 

 Govinda Singha, acknowledging their election as Members. 



Also, from Professor T. Rosen, acknowledging his election as an Honor- 

 ary Member. 



A private letter from M. Eug. Burnouf, Secretary to the Asiatic Soci- 

 ety of Paris, noted the arrival of the 100 vols, of the Tibetan Kahgyur, 

 and of the other dispatches sent by General Allard. 



Read letters from the Secretaries to the British Museum, and the 

 Royal Asiatic Society, returning thanks for the Tibetan Dictionary and 

 other works. 



Extract of a letter from Professor Wilson, intimated the distribution 

 of the Tibetan works sent home for the various continental learned socie- 

 ties. It also reported that a portion of the Moorcrort papers had been 

 finally placed with Murray and Co., for commencement of publication. 



Professor Wilson estimates that the whole will occupy, when re-written, and 

 shorn of repetitions and redundancies, two octavo volumes. The terms agreed 

 upon are, that 50 copies are to be at the Society's disposition. Any final loss on 

 the publication to be made good by the Society : and the relations of the author 

 to participate in any success. 



Read a letter from M. Csoma de Koros, saying that although the fac 

 simile from Iskardo, taken by Mr. Vigne, was evidently Tibetan, it was 

 in too imperfect a condition to be decyphered. 



Library. 



The following books were presented to the Society : 



A copy of the Appendix of the third volume of the Transactions of the Royal 

 Asiatic Society — by the Society. 



The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, No. 4 — ly the Society. 



A children's map of the world in Bengali — by Raja Kdlikrishna. 



A daily register of the tide in the harbour of Singapur, from 1st Sept. 1834, 

 to 31st Aug. 1835 — by the Government . 



Meteorological Register for the months of January and February, 1836 — by 

 the Surveyor General. 



The Indian Journal of Medical Science — by the Editor. 



The following received from the book-sellers : — 



The Political and Statistical History of Guzerat, translated from the Persian 

 by James Bird, Esq., and published by the Oriental Translation Fund. 



Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia — Literary Men, vol. 2nd. 



