372 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [June, 



the most important unpublished paper in Physics, which may have been com- 

 municated to the Royal Society for insertion in their Transactions, after the 

 present date and prior to the month of June in the year 1838. 



I have the honour to be, 

 Sir, 

 Your very obedient humble servant, 



Chas. Konig, For. Sec. R. S. 

 To James Prinsep, Esq. 



Secretary of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta. 



Read a letter from H. T. Pbinsep, Esq. Secretary to the Government 



of India, General Department, intimating that the Right Honorable the 



Governor of Bengal had been pleased to empower the Curators of the 



Public Library to make over to the Society the Oriental books printed in 



Europe, on the same conditions, with the manuscripts and works already 



transferred from the College of Fort William. The Secretary stated that 



he had in consequence received charge of three hundred volumes — some 



few being, however, duplicates of works already in the library. 



A letter from the Civil Auditor, desiring to be furnished with an abstract 

 of the establishment entertained for the care of the Government Oriental 

 Works. Understanding the 78 rupees monthly to be a consolidated allow- 

 ance, in which case no detail of its expenditure need be furnished, Resolv- 

 ed to make a reference on the subject to Government. 



Library. 



Read a letter from H. T. Prinsep, Esq. Secretary to the Government 

 of India, forwarding on behalf of the Honorable the Court of Directors 

 for presentation to the Society, a copy of the Catalogue of Stars in fhe 

 Southern Hemisphere, by Lieut. Johnson, H. C. Ast. at St. Helena. 



Read a Persian note from Manu Lal, presenting a copy of a compila- 

 tion from standard Persian and Hindustani Poets, published by himself 

 under the name of Guldesteh i Nishdt, — The Nosegay of Pleasure. 



Read a letter from Kumar Radhacanth Deb Behadur, forwarding 

 for presentation to the Society a copy of his great publication, entitled 

 Sabda Culpa Drama, an Encyclopedical Lexicon in Sanscrit, vols. 1, 2, 

 and 3. The subsequent or the remaining vols, will be forwarded when 

 published. Also translation of an extract from a Horticultural work in 

 Persian, printed by the Roy. As. Soc. of London. 



A volume of selected papers of a literary nature published in the 

 Government Gazette while Mr. Wilson was Editor, was presented by 

 Mr. James Prinsep. 



Meteorological Registers for April and May 1836, were presented by the 

 Surveyor General. 



Museum. 



Read a letter from Prof. Goodeve, Secretary to the Medical and Phy- 

 sical Society, requesting the Society's acceptance of a pair of glazed 

 almirahs, their contents having been transferred to the Medical College. 



Two large chatta-hats from Assam, were presented by Dr. W. B. Davis. 



Various rude specimens of domestic implements from New Zealand, by 

 Mr. H. T. Prinsep. 



