1863.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 179 
The President remarked that the question was one of considerable 
interest and importance to the Society ; it had been submitted for the 
approval of the Government with the warm support of the Survey 
Department, but no orders had yet been received. He trusted that 
the Society would co-operate and add the weight of their influence in 
inducing the Government to contribute the small means necessary to 
carry out the measure. When they referred to the new map of Cen- 
tral Asia lately constructed under the direction of Major Walker, and 
published in the Surveyor General’s office here, and observed the 
comparatively short distance between the British and the Russian 
frontier, the growing importance of a better geographical knowledge 
of the intervening countries would be apparent. It was a most re- 
markable fact that up to the present time, our geographical explora- 
tions beyond the British Frontier in almost every direction round 
Hindustan, were lamentably limited; this was specially the case on 
the North-East frontier round Assam, and the valley of the Brahma- 
pootra river, owing to the persevering hostility of the hill tribes against 
all Europeans. The employment of qualified natives of India, there- 
fore, appeared to present almost the only means, at present likely to 
be of any avail, and he, therefore, looked hopefully for much good to 
arise from the present movement. 
5. From Baboo Gopinauth Sein, abstracts of the results of the 
Hourly Meteorological Observations taken at the Surveyor General’s 
Office in December last. 
6. From the Under-Secretary to the Government of India, in the 
Public Works Department, a copy of Major General Cunningham’s 
diary as Archxological Surveyor to the Government of India, for the 
month of December, 1862. 
Extracts from Major General Cunningham’s abstract printed report 
of his proceedings as Archeological Surveyor to Government of 1861- 
62 were read and commented upon by Mr. Bayley. 
The President stated that the proceedings of the Archeological 
Surveyor to Government were of the first importance to the Society, 
and looking to the interesting contents of the two printed abstract 
reports which were only intended as mere diaries to satisfy the 
Government as to the progress made, the ultimate value of Major 
General Cunningham’s researches might be inferred. Doubtless when 
his work was matured and published, it would prove a most valuable 
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