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Asiatic Society. 



[No. 119. 



Wilson's Dictionary,. 

 Bebaud Chentamony, 

 Malatee Madhava, 

 Retnavoli, .... . 

 Khetro Tutto Depica, 



Persian and Arabic Works. 



Kyfayah, 4 vols. .,. 



Suddedee, 



Fussoli Abqrat, 



Mill's Bridge's Algebra, 



Shanamah, 



Mujumah Sumshi, 



jEsop's Fables, 



Syer Mutakherin, 



Total No. of Copies, 29 



Read letter dated Simla, 16th November 1841, from Capt. J. T. Boileau of the 

 Engineers, forwarding an account of the Meteors which appeared there on the night of 

 the 12th idem, in suflScient quantities to establish the fact of their excess over ordinary 

 occurrences of the kind. 



Read a 4th Memoir on the Law of Storms in India, being remarks and documents 

 relative to the loss of the ship Golconda in the Tyfoons of 22d to 24th September 1840, 

 in the China Sea, by H. Piddington, Esq. 



Read remarks by Capt. J. T. Boileau, Bengal Engineers, on the Construction of 

 Newman's improved Portable Barometer, and on the mode of renewing the Guage 

 Point when lost, with a drawing. 



The Secretary also submitted to the inspection of the meeting, a Perpetual Moon 

 Table by Capt. R. Shortreede, who on a former occasion favored him with a Per- 

 petual Time Table. 



The foregoing Papers and Table, the Secretary noticed, would appear in early 

 numbers of his Journal. 



Read the following Report of the Curator for the month of November last:— 

 Sir, 



During the brief period that has elapsed since the occasion of our last Meeting, 

 but little has transpired that can be embodied in my present Report. Due progress 

 has been made in determining and labelling the collection of Birds, which I trust will 

 be entirely accomplished by our next Meeting. I have also commenced arranging 

 the Insects, and shall soon have ascertained and labelled the order Lepidoptera, 

 to the extent of my present means of determining the genera and species. The 

 donations received for the Museum consist solely of Zoological specimens : viz. 1st, a 

 Bat from Dr. Cantor, being the third species of Indian Taphozous now in the 

 collection, whereas I believe but one has hitherto been described from this part of the 



