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by the Asiatic Society of Bengal, but are simply desirous of aiding, 
by an organized effort, the promotion of the objects of the Society, 
I have &c., 
(Sd.) T. H. Toorytoy, 
Secretary to the Provincial Committee. 
“Proceedings of a meeting held on 27th January, 1863, with a 
view of devising some plan for collecting information regarding the 
antiquities, ethnology, climatology, arts, manufactures, &c., of the 
Punjab and adjoining countries. 
“ Present :—Lieutenant-Colonel Maclagan, Secretary to Govern- 
ment, Department of Public Works; R. H. Davies, Esq., Secretary 
to Government; Dr. Cleghorn, Conservator of Forests, Madras, (on 
deputation to the Punjab); T. H. Thornton, D.C. L., Judge of 
Small Cause Court, and Curator of the Lahore Museum. 
“ Unavoidably absent.—T. D. Forsyth, Esq., C. B. ; Commissioner 
of Lahore Division ; D. F. McLeod, Esq., C. B., First Commissioner, 
Punjab ; R. N. Cust, Esq., Judicial Commissioner of the Punjab. 
“ Tieutenant-Colonel Maclagan having consented to preside, and 
Mr. T. H. Thornton to act as Secretary. 
“It was resolved— 
1. “That communication be opened with all Commissioners and 
Deputy Commissioners and Assistants in independent charge, writing 
to them to co-operate, and also with the following gentlemen :— 
Rev. Isidore Loewenthal, (Missionary, Peshawur); Rev. H. A. 
Jaesche (Missionary, Kotgurh,) and Mr. Drew (Kashmir). 
2. “That the following gentlemen be asked to be members of the 
Committee :—R. Stevens, Hsq.; Dr. Brown; Dr. Neil, and Pundit 
Munphool. 
3. “That Mr. Davies be requested to prepare a memorandum of 
the existing information regarding the tribes, &c. inhabiting the 
Punjab and adjoining countries. 
4, “That Lieutenant-Colonel Maclagan be requested to prepare 
a similar memorandum regarding the arts and manufactures. 
5. “That Dr. Cleghorn be requested to afford his aid in the same 
manner, regarding the fauna and flora of the Punjab. 
6. “That Mr. T. H. Thornton be requested to prepare from local 
reports, and other memoranda, a list of objects of historical and 
