THE JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY 



BEIT6AL 



EDITED 



BY THE SECRETARY. 



VOL. IX. 



PART I.— JANUARY TO JUNE, 1840. 



NEW SERIES. 



" It will flourish, if naturalists, chemists, antiquaries, philologers, and men of science, in differ- 

 ent parts of dsia will commit their observations to writing, and send them to the Asiatic Society 

 in Calcutta ; it will languish, if such comniu»ifa*i©a& e shall be long intermitted ; and will die away, 

 if they shall entirely cease." — Sir 



CALCUTTA: 

 BISHOPS COLLEGE PRESS. 



1840. 



