248 Asiatic Society. [April, 



Paschal Aucher's Armenian translation of Milton's Paradise Lost, 

 was presented by Mr. Johannes Avdall. 



Mr. Hodgson, Resident in Nepal, forwarded to the Secretary several 

 specimens of the drawings prepared for his proposed Illustrations of the 

 Geology of Nepal. 



Subscribers had held back from patronizing his work because no mention is 

 made of price in Mr. H.'s Prospectus. Without consulting publishers at home, 

 this cannot be done with any certainty ; but as a guarantee that the charge shall 

 be below actual cost, Mr. Hodgson states that he is willing to devote 3000 

 rupees towards the publication, of what has already cost him so much to accu- 

 mulate. Any subscriber may withdraw hereafter should he disapprove of the 

 terms; in fact, as he quaintly but truly observes, he does not seek to put himself 

 under obligation to others, but rather others under obligation to him, by his 

 devotion of time, labour, and money to this grand object*. 



Resolved, that the Asiatic Society subscribe for two copies of Mr. 

 Hodgson's work, and that the Prospectus be circulated among its Members. 



The Second volume (or rather the preface) of the Sairul Mutakherin , 

 was presented by Maulavi Abdulmojid the editor and publisher. 



Museum and Antiquities. 



An elephant's tooth, carved all over with images of Gautama, an object 

 of considerable curiosity and antiquity, procured in a cave near Moulmein, 

 was presented by Captain W. Foley. 



Dr. Wallich presented in the name of Captain Bogle, a wooden stand- 

 ard taken from the Bhotia army. 



(See Plate VI. fig. 4.) It is a bit of plank mounted on a staff, painted red, 

 with an image of Buddha, belligerent (?) on one side, and a Tibetan inscription 

 on the back, (copy of which has been sent to Mr. Csoma Korosi for transla- 

 tion. " The Demangari Raja always had it carried before him with great 

 solemnity, and under the special keeping of a large guard of honor, who how- 

 ever in the affair of Subang-kotta ran away without it, and it fell into our 

 hands." 



A Burmese musical instrument was presented by Ensign Phayre. 



A small antique Persian image, dug up by a peasant near Bushire. By 

 Capt. J. Heunell. This is depicted as fig. 3, of Plate VI. 



Mr. Avdall presented three Arsakian and one Sassanian coin. 



Literary. 



Read a note from Johannes Avdall, Esq. on the reverse legend of some 

 of the Indo-Scythic coins found by Mr. (J. Masson at B gram in the 

 Kohistan of Kabul. 



A census of the Armenian population of the city of Calcutta was also 

 presented by Mr. J. Avdall. 



Read a letter from Ensign Newbold, forwarding for presentation to 

 the Society an account of the 3rd of the four Menankabowe states on the 

 Malay Peninsula. 



Read a letter from Major James Low, dated Province Wellesley, 10th 

 February, forwarding two manuscripts on Siamese literature, games, 

 and music, and on the nature of the Siamese government, with specimens 

 of Burmese and Malayan music. 



* In any other country it would be termed national object, but here such a 

 term might be misapplied ! In France, the Government, alias the nation, 

 publishes M. Jacqukmont's works, — purchases M. Ventcra's collections, 

 — devotes an annual grant to the Asiatic Society of Paris of 12,000 francs, as 

 part and parcel of the national instruction system. — We need not pursue the 

 parallel. 



