674 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [Oct. 



Substance of the Speech of Charles Purton Cooper, Esq. as Counsel for 

 the Rev, Charles Welleeloved, iu the suit of the Attorney-General versus 

 Shore, instituted in the High Court of Chancery, respecting Lady Hewley's 

 Foundations ; 1 pamphlet. 



Memoria du Commissao dos Arquivos du Gran Bretanha dirigida aos Car- 

 torarios Bibliothecarios e Antiquarios de Portugal, pello que resputa aos traba- 

 thos e Exames da mesma Commissao ; 1 pamphlet. 



Proceedings and Ordinances of the Privy Council of England, 5 vols. 

 Rotuli Curiae Regis, 2 vols. 



Rotuli de Oblatis et Finibus in Turri Londinensi, 1 vol. 

 Rotuli Selecti Ex Archivis in Dom. Cap. Westm. 1 vol. 



Exeerptae Rotulis Finium in Turri Londinensi asservatis Henrico Tei tio, 1 vol. 

 Fines 7, Ric I. 16 Johan, ] vol. 

 Rotuli Normannise in Turri Londinensi, 1 vol. 

 Statutes of the Realm, 12 vols, including 2 vols, of Index. 

 Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library, 1 vol. 

 Calendarium Rotulorum Patentium in Turri Londinensi, 1 vol. 

 Calendarium Rotulorum Chartarum et Inquisitionum ad quod damnum, 1 vol. 

 Taxatio Ecclesiastica Angliae et Wallise, 1 vol. 



Read a letter from Mr. H. A. Hobneman, forwarding for presentation 

 a copy of the first number of the Numismatic Journal, on behalf of Mr. 

 John Yonge Akerman, F. S. A. the Editor. 



Meteorological Register for September, 1836, was presented by the 

 Surveyor General. 



Second Annual Report of the Statistical Society of London, presented 

 by Dr. D. Stewart. 



Literary and Antiquities. 

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

 of India, General Department, forwarding copy of a report furnished to 

 the Government of Bombay from Colonel Chesney, of the proceedings 

 of the Euphrates expedition, in its various departments. 



[The substance of this report is published below.] 

 A memoir on the Antiquities of Bamian was submitted by Mr. Tre- 

 velyan, on the part of Mr. C. Masson. 



The same member presented also a notice by Munshi' Mohan La'l, 

 of Uch Sherif, a town near the junction of the five streams in the Punjab, 

 celebrated as the place of sepulture of many Mahommedan saints. 



Mr. S. G. Heatly presented through Dr. Corbyn, the first of a series 

 of mathematical essays on the use of functions in geometrical analysis. 



Physical. 

 A large fossil fragment of the acetabulum of an elephant was presented 

 by Dr. Spilsbury, found by him at Sigouni, the place where Captain 

 Si.eeman discovered the first indications of the Nerbudda fossils. 



Brigadier Anburey, Engineers, presented on the part of Mr. Sweten- 

 ham, s«me incrusted petrifactions of leaves from the calcareous springs 

 in the Dehra Dun. 



A specimen of the red-billed parrot (Psittacus Sinensis) was presented 

 by Dr. Burlini, and a woodpecker by the curator, both mounted in the 

 museum. 



The Secretary read the following extract of a private letter from Dr. 

 W. Griffith, dated Sadiya, Assam, 12th Oct. 



" I have much pleasure in informing you that I have lately completed the 

 arrangement of the collections of the Musci and Hepaticse made during our late 

 deputation into Assam. The collection of the former amounts to 154 species, 

 or to about an eighth of the whole known number. It includes twenty-seven 

 genera, of which I have ventured to characterise two as new. That of Hepaticse 

 includes forty-eight species, of which thirty-one belong to Jungermannia 

 alone, and ten genera, of which five appear to be new. Almost the whole of 

 both these collections were made by myself on the Khasiya Hills between Chur» 



