436 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [July, 



Historical Oriental Translations and Researches, 2 vols, quarto, by the Rev. 

 W. Taylor, Madras — presented by the author. 



Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, No. 4 — by 

 the Society. 



A descriptive and illustrated catalogue of the Physiological Series of Compara- 

 tive Anatomy, contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeous in 

 London, Vol. III. Part l. — by the President of the College. 



The Sixth Annual Report of the Society of Natural History of the Mauritius — 

 ly M. Julien Des Jar dins, See. 



Madras Journal of Literature and Science, No 12, for April and July, 1836— 

 ly the Madras Literary Society. 



The Indian Journal of Medical Science, No. 8, and Review of Works on Sci- 

 ence — by F. Corbyn, Esq. the Editor, 



Meteorological Register for June 1836 — by the Surveyor General. 



The following- looks were received from the booksellers :— 

 Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia — Botany, 1 vol. 

 = , Foreign Statesmen, vol. 2nd. 



Museum. 

 Ren .1 a letter from J. Bell, E^q. Secretary Agricultural and Horti- 

 cultural Society, forwarding- for the acceptance .of the Society two blankets 

 and two woollen cloths on behalf of Lieutenant H. Vetch. 



The blankets are made from the Simal tree ; the woollen cloths are of Bho- 

 tian manufacture. 



Literary Communications. 



The Government of Madras referred for the consideration of the 

 Society, through the Supreme Government, a proposition submitted by 

 Cavelly Venkata Lacshmia, Pandit, to re-establish the system of Histo- 

 rical Research so successfully pursued by the late Col. Colin Mackenzie 

 in the Peninsula, by collecting inscriptions, manuscripts, grants, &c. as 

 well as to translate and digest the mass of materials all eady collected, and 

 now in the possession of the Royal Asiatic Society. 



Cavelly Venkata had drawn up a report-progress of the researches, in 

 which he states himself to be still engaged, classifying the different dynasties, 

 ancient and modern, of South India, on which light has been thrown by the 

 Mackenzie collection. This paper and the correspondence were reftrred to the 

 Committee of Papers for their examination and report, previous to discussion 

 of the question in the Society. 



Mr. W. H. Macnaghten presented an elaborate Memoir by Lieut— 

 Colonel Burney, Resident in Ava, entitled " An account of the wars 

 between Burmah and China, together with the journals and routes of three 

 different embassies sent to Pekin by the king of Ava, taken from Bur- 

 mese documents. 



[Referred to the Committee of Papers. This account has peculiar interest 

 at the present moment, when the offer of Mr. Gtjtzlaff to penetrate through 

 Chiua to Ava or Assam has been much discussed.] 



Mr. Tkevelyan on behalf of M. C. Masson presented a third memoir 

 on the coins discovered at Beghram. 



This paper is a careful and laborious recapitulation of all that has been done 

 in this curious branch of discovery, with the addition of the results of a third 

 year's search. The acquisition of new coins and new names naturally becomes 

 every day more rare ; so that notwithstanding the addition of 2,294 coius to nis 



