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Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 



(Wednesday Evening^ 1th July, 184J.^ 



Dr. J. J. HjEBERLIN, Senior Member present, in the Chair. 



Mr. S. G. T. Heatly proposed at the Meeting of the 2(i June last, was ballotted for and 

 duly -elected. 



Ordered, that the usual communication of his election be made to Mr. Heatly, and that he 

 be furnished with a copy of the rules of the Society for his guidance. 



Library and Museum. 



Books received for the Library of the Asiatic Society, for the Meeting of the 7th July, 1841 . 



Mantell's Wonders of Geology, London, 1838, 8vo. 2 vols. 



The Calcutta Christian Observer,, for June and July 1841, New Series, vol. 2d, Nos. 18 

 and 19. 



Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia — Swainson and Shuckard's History and Natural arrange- 

 ment of Insects. 



Transactions of the Linnean Society, vol. 16th, part 1st, vol. 17th, part 1, 2, 3, and vol. 18, 

 parts 1, 2, 3, 7 vols. 



Calcutta Monthly Journal, &c. for May 1841, 1 vol. 



Yarrell's History of British Birds, part 23d. 



Annuals and Magazine of Natural History, No. 4,1, March 1841. 



Oriental Christian Spectator, Second Series for March, April, and May 1841, Nos. 3, 4, 5, 

 Bombay. 



Maha-Nataka, a Dramatic History of King Rama, by Hanumat, translated by Kali Krishna 

 Bahadur, Calcutta, 1840, 1 vol. 



Genealogical and other accounts of Maha-Raja Kali Krishna Bahadur, Calcutta, 1841. 



Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 1st, Nos. 12 and 13 for 1840. 



Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. 



Catalogue des Livres composant la Bibliotheque de feu M. Klaproth, Paris, 1839. 1 vol. 



Read the following report from Dr. E. Roer, appointed Librarian to the Asiatic Society of 

 Bengal in the room of Mr. Csomo De Korosi, resigned. 



H. ToRRENS, Esa. 



Secretary, Asiatic Society. 



•'Sir, — I have the honor to submit to you the following report: — 

 Having taken charge of the Library on Monday the 21st of June, I thought it my duty to ascer- 

 tain the number of the European Books; the number not being specified in the Manuscript 

 Catalogue, and I found it to be the following : — 



English Books, 2,292 



Ditto Pamphlets, 211 2,503 



French Books, ,. 1,140 



Ditto Pamphlets, 209 1,349 



Latin Books, 537 



Ditto Pamphlets 27 6C4 



Miscellaneous Books, 331 



Ditto Pamphlets, 39 370 



Books lent out, 205 



Ditto Pamphlets ditto, 14 219 5005 



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