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" Your Committee therefore is unanimous in recommending, in modification of 

 the resolution of the 1st April, that the services of Dr. Pearson he secured at 

 the rate of 150 rupees per mensem, for a limited term at first, say one year, at the 

 expiration of which it would be seen whether or not it would be desirable to con- 

 tinue the system, or to have recourse to the obliging assistance of the Baron 

 Hugel to procure a regular curator from Europe." 



(Signed) E. Ryan. 



W. Morrison. 



W. H. Macnaghten. 



J. T. Pearson. 



After some discussion, it was resolved ; that the Society should avail it- 

 self of the services of Dr. J. T. Pearson as curator, and that a sum of 200 

 rupees per mensem should be devoted to the purposes of the museum for 

 the period of one year : the 50 rupees excess being intended for con- 

 tingencies, cabinets, &c. or for an assistant, for the office of which M. 

 Bouche' of Chandernagore was an applicant. 



A letter from J. B. Gardner was read, proposing to repair the monu- 

 ment of Sir W. Jones, in the church-yard, for rupees 250. Referred to the 

 Committee of Papers. 



Read a letter from Mr. J. K. Kane, Secretary of the American Philo- 

 sophical Society, forwarded by Mr. T. Ryan, acknowledging the receipt 

 of Part 2nd of volume xviii. of the Asiatic Researches. 



Library. 



Read a letter from Monsieur M. D'Avezac De Macaya, Secretary to 

 the Geographical Society of Paris, &c. &c. presenting two pamphlets. 



1. — '' Examen et Rectification des Positions determines Astronomiquement 

 en Afrique par MungoPark." 



2. — "Notice sur L'apparition nouvelle D'un Prophete Mussulman en Afrique." 



The following books were also presented. 



Transactions of tbe Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta, Part 2 of volume 

 vii. — by the Society, through Dr. Hutchinson, Secretary. 



The Tndian Journal of Medical Science, volume 2nd, Nos. 16, 17 — by the 

 Editors. 



Madras Journal of Literature and Science, No. 7 — by the Madras Literary 

 Society. 



Scott Waring's Tour to Shiraz by the route of Kazroon and Feerozabad — 

 by H. N. Thakur. 



Meteorological Register for March, 1835 — by the Surveyor General. 



Dr. R. Harlan's Fauna Americana, presented for the author — by Mr. H. 



PlDDINGTON. 



Antiquities. 



A letter was read from Mr. J. B. Elliott, Commissioner of Patna, for- 

 warding an impression taken in sheet-lead of an inscription on the plinth 

 of some figures of the Avatars, sculptured on a black stone which he ob- 

 tained at Kesariah in the neighboui'hood of the mound depicted in the 

 last No. of the Journal. 



A note on the interpretation of the line was read by the Rev. Dr. 

 Mill. 



Extracts of a letter from Captain Wade were read, communicating 

 interesting accounts of further progress made by M. Masson in his ex- 

 ploration of the Afghan topes. 

 Extracts of letter from Mr. Masson to Captain Wade, dated the 15th July, 1834. 



" I had the pleasure of addressing you from Peshawar about the middle of May, 

 and now avail myself of a Cossid proceeding to Cabul to transmit through 

 your Agent Meer Syao Karamat Ali, a brief account of my proceedings since 

 that time. 



