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VIII. — Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 



Wednesday Evening the llth March, 1835. 



The Rev. W. H. Mill, D. D. Vice-President, in the chair. 



Captain T. M. Taylor, proposed at the last meeting, was duly elected 

 a member of the Society. 



The Chevalier General Ventura and M. A. Court, proposed as honor- 

 ary members at the last meeting, were unanimously elected. 



The Honorable George Turnour, of the Ceylon civil service, was pro- 

 posed as an honorary member, by Dr. Mill, seconded by Mr. J. Prinsep, 

 and referred to the committee of papers. 



The Secretary announced that two vacancies had been caused in the 

 committee of papers by the departure of Captain Troyer and Dr. Tytler, 

 for Europe ; upon which a ballot was held, and Mr. H. T. Prinsep and 

 Captain Pemberton, were elected by the majority of votes. 



Read a letter from C. K. Robison, Esq. intimating, with reluctance, 

 that he was compelled to withdraw from the Society. 



Read a letter from Dr. J. T. Pearson, stating that in consequence of 

 his residing at such a distance from the museum of the Society, he could 

 not any longer perform the duties of Curator, and therefore tendering 

 his resignation of the situation, and proposing that a person be sent for 

 in that capacity from England. 



Resolved, that the thanks of the Society be presented to Dr. Pearson, 

 for his past services, and that the subject of his present recommendation 

 be referred to the committee of papers. 



Read a letter from Mr. C. Trebeck, on the subject of his brother's 

 and Mr. Moorcroft's manuscripts. The Secretary also had received 

 a letter from Mr. W. Fraser of Delhi, .offering to place such papers as 

 were still with him in the hands of the Society, on condition of their being 

 published for the sole benefit of the author's family. 



Referred to the committee of papers. 



Read a letter from Monsieur E. Burnouf, Secretary to the Asiatic 

 Society of Paris, acknowledging his election as an honorary member, and 

 noticing the receipt of the 17th volume of the Asiatic Researches and 1st 

 volume of the Journal of the Asiatic Society. 



Library. 



Read a letter from Captain H. Harkness, Secretary to the Royal Asia- 

 tic Society, forwarding the 3rd part of the 3rd volume of the Society's 

 Transactions, also the first part of the New Quarterly Journal. 



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

 India, General Department, forwarding on behalf of the Right Honorable 

 the Governor of Bengal, a copy of the 1st volume of Colonel Beaufoy's Nau- 

 tical and Hydraulic experiments, with numerous Scientific miscellanies. 



Read a letter from Baron Silvestre de Sacy, presenting his recent 

 publications as follows : 



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