old Proceedings of the- Asiatic Socvety. [No. 3, 
9. From J. F. Shekleton, Esq., M.D., Officiating Assay Master,—A 
copy of the Assay Tables, in continuation of Tables VIII. and IX. of 
Mr. James Prinsep. 
A letter from Mr. D. Fitzpatrick, intimating his desire to withdraw 
from the Society, was recorded. 
The following gentlemen, duly proposed at the last meeting, were 
balloted for and elected ordinary members:—H. S. Kane, Hsgq., 
M.D.; G. E. Porter, Hsq., C.S.; C. Horne, Esq., C. S. 
R. H. Barnes, Esq., of Ceylon was also balloted for and elected a 
Corresponding member. 
The following gentlemen were named for ballot as ordinary mem- 
bers at the next meeting :— 
Coomar Chunder Nath Roy of Nattore, proposed by Mr. H. C. 
Sutherland and seconded by Mr. Cowell. 
Baboo Bunkim Chunder Chatterjea, B. A., proposed by Baboo Gour 
Doss Bysack and seconded by Mr. Atkinson. 
The Council reported that they had adopted the following report 
of the Philological Committee. 
KEport OF THE PHILOLOGICAL COMMITTEE. 
The Philological Committee submit the following suggestion to 
the Council : 
In 1854 Dr. Sprenger published the first Vol. of a catalogue of Per- 
sian MSS. at the expence of the government; similarly in 1855 Dr. 
Ballantyne published the first Vol. of the great Sanscrit grammar, 
the Mahdbhashya with native commentaries; and in 1860 Dr. Hall 
published his Contribution to an Index of the Hindu Philosophical 
Systems. ‘These three works possess respectively great value to 
Huropean scholars, but unfortunately they are almost entirely un- 
known even by name in Kurope. ‘The Secretary has made enquiries 
of the Curator of Government Books at Allahabad, and he has learned 
that the stock of the two latter works is at Allahabad, but we fear 
that the first mentioned work on Persian Literature was probably 
destroyed during the mutiny. 
As the Government so liberally advanced the expence for the 
printing of these books, it can hardly have been their intention that 
the volumes when printed, should remain locked up from the learned 
world who alone could appreciate them. Now if fifty or eighty 
copies were ordered for distribution among the principal learned socie- 
