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Directors, with reference to a resolution passed at the Meeting of the 13th January 



last. 



Read a letter from Mr. James Dodd, Assay Master at Agra, offering to the Society 



a valuable collection of minerals chiefly Cornish ; most of them good and instructive, 



and some few rare. 



Resolved — That a communication be made to Mr. Dodd, to the effect, that if he 

 should feel inclined to take into consideration an offer for his collection of rupees 600, 

 the Society would be recommended to purchase it, as an addition to their Museum. 



The Officiating Secretary noticed the existence of a number of models of crystals 

 in the Assay Office of the Calcutta Mint, where they were of no use, and might with 

 advantage be placed in the rooms of the Society. 



Application to the Officiating Assay Master to this effect having been made, and that 

 Officer not appearing to come into the views of the Society as to the expediency of the 

 removal of the models. 



Resolved — That the request of the Society be submitted to the Government, so that 

 the Officiating Assay Master may be authoi'ized to transfer the models in question to 

 the Museum of the Asiatic Society. 



Read a letter from Mr. Secretary Bushby of the 20th January last, conveying the autho- 

 rity of the Supreme Government to the application of the Society of the 13th Novem- 

 ber last, to purchase certain instruments and cabinets from the collection of the late 

 Jas. Prinsep, Esq. for a sum not exceeding rupees 1,350. 



Read letter from the Officiating Curator of the 25th January last, reporting purchase 

 of the instruments and cabinets for rupees 735. 



Resolved — That the thanks of the Society be conveyed to the Government for this 

 grant, and that an order be issued for the payment of the amount, from the General 

 Treasury in favour of the Secretary. 



Read a letter from Professor O'Shaughnessy of 21st January last, applying for the 

 use of the Society's rooms, for a course of Lectures. 



Resolved — Thatthe Officiating Secretary inform Professor O'Shaughnessy, that the 

 President and Committee of Papers of the Asiatic Society are happy to have it in 

 their power to facilitate the delivery of the course of Lectures he contemplates giving, 

 on the Laws and Effects of Galvanic Arrangements, by placing at his disposal the 

 rooms of the Society, the costs and charges of lighting being borne by him. 



Read a note submitted by Mr. W. H. Bolst, Accountant to the Society, on the 

 pecuniary grant made to the Society by the Honorable the Court of Directors, the 

 object being to point out the i*eal intentions of the Court, as connected with that grant. 



Resolved — That as doubts are entertained by the Society, a reference be made to 

 the Government, and through them ultimately to the Honorable the Court of Direc- 



