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VIII. — Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 

 Wednseday Evening, the ith November, ] 835. 



Captain Pemberton, Senior Member present, in the chair. 



The Hon'ble Sir Benjamin Malkin, Kt., and Charles Hay Cameron, 

 Esq., proposed at the last meeting, were ballotted for, and unanimously 

 elected Members of the Society. 



Read a letter from Lieut. W. C. Baker, acknowledging his election 

 as a member. 



Read a letter from Thomas Dickenson, Esq., Secretary Bombay Branch 

 of the Royal Asiatic Society, acknowledging the receipt of a copy of the 

 Index to the Asiatic Researches. 



Read a letter from Charles Konig, Esq. Foreign Secretary to the Royal 

 Society of London, acknowledging the receipt of a copy of M. Csoma de 

 Kokos's Tibetan Grammar and Dictionary. 



Library. 



The following books were presented: 



Proceedings of the Geological Society of London, No. 39 — by the Society. 



Madras Journal of Literature and Science, No. 9, October 1835 — by the 

 Madras Literary Society. 



A Treatise on the manufacture of Saltpetre, descriptive of the operations and 

 proper plans to be used for the manufacture of Culmee and Cooteah — by Mr. J. 

 Stephenson, and presented by him. 



The Indian Journal of Medical Science, No. 23 — by the Editors. 



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



The following books were received from the Oriental Translation 

 Fund: 



The Chronicles of Rabbi Joseph Ben Joshua Ben Meir, the Sphardi. Trans- 

 lated from the Hebrew by C. H. F. Bialloblotzky, vol. I. 



Miscellaneous Translations from Oriental languages, vol. 2nd. 



Les Aventures De Kamrup, par M. Garcin De Tassy. 



Harivansa, or Histoire de la Famille de Hari, part 1st — by M. A. Langlois. 



Ethiopic Didascalia, or the Ethiopic version of the Apostolic Constitutions 

 received in the Church of Abyssinia, with an English translation — by Thomas 

 Pell Plat, Esq., F. A. S. 



Nipon o Dai itsi Ran, ou Annales des Empereurs du Japon, 1 vol. — by M. J. 

 Klaproth. 



Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia, Swainson's Animals. 



A piece of ancient Hindu Sculpture, representing a female (goddess), 

 with a child, walking, dug up in the ruins of Canouj, was presented by 

 Colonel Stacy. 



Literary. 



Read a letter from W. H. Macnaghten, Esq., Secretary to Govern- 

 ment, Political Department, forwarding on behalf of the Honorable the 

 Governor General of India in Council, a copy of notes taken by Captain 

 Wade, relative to the territory of Iskardoh, and of his correspondence 

 with the ruler of that country. 



A memoir on the mountain tribes, on the extreme N. E. frontier of 

 Bengal, by J. McCosh, Civil Assistant Surgeon at Goalparah — presented 

 by the Author. 



Extracts from both these papers were read. 



Physical. 

 The following extract of a private letter from Captain Cautley to the 

 Secretary was read, noticing the discovery of further fossils in vast quan- 

 tity in the Sewalik range. 



