1836.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society . 371 



Secretary, when drawing up the catalogue*, that the specimen referred 

 to promised to be useful to engravers on wood, it was accordingly 

 put into the hands of Mr. Branston, who reported very favorably 

 respecting it. That specimen was a piece of a bough or trunk a few 

 inches in diameter, and had been taken sufficiently high above the 

 root to be of a perfectly uniform texture. The present sample, from 

 its broad irregular rings, appears to have been cut as near as possible 

 to the root, in order to get it of the greatest size : but, in so doing, 

 the uniformity of texture absolutely necessary to fit it for use by the 

 engraver has been wholly overlooked, and the result is a sample 

 perfectly worthless for the object for which it is intended. 



By order : 



(Signed) Arthur Aikin, Secy. 



IX. — Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 



Wednesday Evening, the 6th July, 1836. 



The Rev. Dr. Mill, Vice-President, in the chair. 



Captain R. Lloyd, I. N., Dr. D. Stewart, and Dr. McClelland, pro- 

 posed at the last meeting, were ballotted for, and elected members of the 

 Society. 



Mr. Wm. SpEiRwas proposed by Mr. J. Prinsep, seconded by Dr. Mill. 



Sergeant Dawe, of the Delhi Canal Establishment, proposed as an asso- 

 ciate member by Mr. J. Prinsep, seconded by Dr. Pearson. 



Read a letter from Wm. Mackenzie, Esq., stating that, in consequence 

 of the pressure of business, and other indispensable engagements, he was 

 obliged to retire from the Society. 



Read a letter from Charles Konig, Foreign Secretary to the Royal 

 Society, acknowledging the receipt of the Journal, and Index As. Res. 



The following circular, enclosed in the above, was read and directed to 

 be printed for general information : — 



Royal Society of London, Somerset House, Nov. 19, 1835. 

 Sir, 



I am directed by His Royal Highness the President and Council, to acquaint 

 you, for the information of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, that His Majesty the 

 King has been pleased to grant two Gold Medals, of the value of Fifty Guineas 

 each, to be awarded by the Royal Society on the day of their Anniversary 

 Meeting in each succeeding year, for the most important discoveries in any one 

 principal branch of Physical and Mathematical knowledge. 



His Majesty having graciously expressed a wish that scientific men of all 

 nations should be invited to afford the aid of their talents and researches, I am 

 accordingly directed by the Council to announce to you, Sir, that the Royal 

 Medals for 1838 will be awarded in that year, the one to the author of the most 

 important unpublished paper in Chemistry which may have been communicated 

 to the Royal Society for insertion in their Transactions, after the present date 

 and prior to the month of June in the year 1838 \ — the other, to the author of 



* See Journal As. Soc. II. 182. 



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