182 Asiatic Society. [March, 



netism, concluding with the experiment urn crucis of Dr. Faraday, by which 

 the identity of the galvanic and magnetic fluids, is considered to be 

 finally established. The magnetic spark was produced continuously by 

 Saxton's rotating apparatus, of which a description will be found in the 

 Arcana of Science for 1834. 



Wednesday Evening, the 1st April, 1835. 



The Honorable Sir Edward Ryan, President, in the chair. 



The Honorable George Turnouk, of the Ceylon Civil Service, proposed 

 as an Honorary Member at the last Meeting, was unanimously elected. 



Captain M. G. White, Sen. Asst. Commissary, Arrakan, proposed by 

 Mr. W. H. Macnaghten, seconded by the Honorable Colonel Morrison. 



Professor Lea and Dr. Harlan, of Philadelphia, were proposed as 

 Honorary Members by Mr. J. Prinsep, seconded by Mr. Macnaghten. 



Read a note from John Lackersteen, Esq. enclosing a letter from the 

 Right Reverend Jean Louis, Bishop of Isauropolis, and Vicar-Apostolic of 

 Cochinchina, Camboge, and Ciampa. 



The Reverend gentleman's letter, in French, stated, that he had in his possession 

 a manuscript Dictionary, Cochinchinese and Latin, originally prepared more 

 than 40 years ago by his predecessor, Monseigneur Pigneaux, Bishop of Adran, 

 and revised and much augmented by himself during 14 years' residence in the 

 country. He had also nearly completed a second volume of the same materials 

 reversed, or Latin-Cochinchinese, and he had prepared a grammar of the same 

 language in Latin, adopting for all three works the Roman alphabet, in lieu of the 

 complex hieroglyphic characters of the country, which somewhat resemble those 

 of China, but have different powers. 



These three volumes he tendered to the Asiatic Society, requesting to be in- 

 formed of its intentions in regard to their publication. If it were possible to 

 print them at Penang, where the Bishop and a few of his Cochinchinese con- 

 verts have sought refuge from the severe persecutions to which the Mission has 

 been subjected by the present king (who owes his seat on the throne to this very 

 mission), he would there undertake the revision of the proofs : or if it should be 

 necessary, he would proceed to Calcutta for the purpose of superintending the 

 publication under the auspices of the Society. In the latter case, he must look 

 to the Society for pecuniary aid, as all had been lost to the mission, through the 

 cruel treatment it had lately endured. 



Resolved, that this important communication be submitted to the Com- 

 mittee of Papers, who will make the requisite inquiries regarding the 

 work, and report on the expediency, and on the means, of effecting its 

 publication. 



Library. 



Mr. C. E. Trevelyan, presented, on the part of the author, a copy of the 

 Jdme Bahddur-khdni, an epitome (4to, 600 pp.) of European sciences 

 in the Persian language, compiled by Khan Bahadur, son of Raja Mitra 

 JIta of Patna, including treatises on astronomy, optics, and mathematics, 

 and copious tables of logarithms for natural numbers, sines, tangents, &c. 

 Also, a small octavo volume on Perspective (llm-ul MandzaratJ, in the 

 Persian language, by the same author. 



