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had requested that the Asiatic Society would undertake to distribute copies of the 

 work to the principal learned Societies and Universities of Europe and 

 India. In complimenting the Author upon the successful performance of his 

 task, and ordering payment of printing expences, and arrears of salary, the Gover- 

 nor General was further pleased to direct the sum of money remitted to M. Cso- 

 ma by Prince Esterhazy and other Hungarian Noblemen in 1832, which was 

 unfortunately lost by the failure of the house of Alexander and Co. to be re- 

 stored out of the public purse, an act of liberality which will doubtless be appreci- 

 ated in Vienna. 



The Papers submitted to the Society, during the past year, had embraced the 

 discoveries of Bactrian Antiquities by General Ventura, M. Court, Dr. Mar- 

 tin, Mr. Masson, Dr. Gerard, Syed Kera'met Ali, and Mohun Lal. The 

 notice of various Hindu Inscriptions, and particularly the Translation of one of 

 the Allahabad Inscription, by Captain Troyer and Dr. Mill : — the discovery 

 of a submerged town, replete with antiquities, by Captain Cautley ; and ma- 

 ny other subjects of considerable interest. In physical research, the progress 

 of discovery had been unprecedently rapid, and the gigantic fossil bones exhu- 

 mated from the lower range of hills, by Dr. Falconer and Captain Cautley, 

 had even surpassed the noble specimens presented by Dr. Spilsbury. It was 

 now rendered most probable that a belt of fossil deposit existed throughout the 

 whole line of secondary hills skirting the great Him&layan ridge from Cashmir to 

 Ava. It had been penetrated in a few places — at Sewalik, Kooch Behar, and on 

 the Irawadi ; but for many years, it might be anticipated that other spots yet unex- 

 plored would continue to furnish abundant stores for the investigation of the geo- 

 logist and the speculation of the cosmogonist. 



Library. 



Read a letter from Monsieur Lair, Secretary of the Society of Agri- 

 culture and Commerce at Caen, forwarding copies of the various publica- 

 tions of that Society for the past two years. 



Read a letter from Monsieur Dutrouille, Secretary of the Royal Aca- 

 demy at Bordeaux, forwarding copies of its proceedings, &c. for the years 

 1832 and 33, and proposing an exchange of publications. 



Read a letter from Professor J. J. Marcel, acknowledging his election 

 as an Honorary member, and presenting his recent publications : 



Histoire de l'Egypte depuis la conqufite des Arabes jusqu'a celle des 

 Francais. 



Contes Arabes du Shekh el Mohdy, Nos. 10, 11, 12, 13. 



The following Books were also presented : 



Journal of a Tour through the Panjab,Afghanistan, &c. in company with 

 Lieut. Burner and Dr. Gerard, by Munshi Mohan La'l, a native of 

 Delhi — by the author. 



Papers relative to the Mahratta War in 1833-4, by Mr. G.T. Lushington. 



Hitopadesi, with aHindee translation, made by a Pundit of the Raja of 

 Bhartpur — by ditto. 



Prithivi Raja Basa, a Hindee Poem, by Chand, — by ditto. 



Journal Asiatique, No. 77, August, 1834 — by the Asiatic Society of Paris. 



Meteorological Register, Nov. and Dec. 1834—6?/ the Surveyor General. 



A lithographed map of the Indus and the neighbouring countries, from the 



