92 Asiatic Society. ["No. 121. 



The adoption of the first of these resolutions was then proposed by the Honorable 

 H. T. Prinsep, seconded by the Secretary, and carried unanimously. 



The Honorable W. W. Bird then rose, and after a just eulogy on Mr. H. T. 

 Prinsep's merits as an Oriental and general scholar, and as a most zealous and indus- 

 trious member of the Society, with many feeling allusions to the transcendant merits of 

 Mr. James Prinsep, a name so justly dear to the Society as that from whose labours 

 alone have raised its fame so far above what it had ever before attained — Proposed in 

 continuation, "That the Honorable H. T. Prinsep be requested to accept of the 

 office of President of the Asiatic Society." 



The Right Reverend the Lord Bishop, in rising to second this motion, paid a 

 warm and a just tribute to the zeal and interest so constantly shewn in every 

 matter relative to the Society's pursuits and affairs by its late President, the 

 Honorable Sir Edward Ryan. His Lordship then addressing himself to Mr. 

 Prinsep as the future President of the Society, adverted to the Discourses of its 

 founder, Sir William Jones, as compositions well worthy of the close attention of 

 its Presidents, from their enlarged views, and their general tendency to raise the cha- 

 racter of its pursuits, and to render it, as it always had been, both in India and in Eu- 

 rope, the just and fruitful parent of Oriental learning and science. His Lordship also 

 adverted in feeling language to the merits of the late Mr. James Prinsep, observing, 

 that no one individual could do justice to them. 



The motion was carried by acclamation. 



The Honorable H. T. Prinsep, on taking the chair, and returning thanks for the 

 honour conferred upon him by the Society, said, that he felt he owed much more to 

 the labours of his brother, than to any merits of his own : (hat he felt and knew that 

 his heavy official duties during many years had left him far less leisure than he could 

 have desired for the prosecution of his Oriental and other studies, and that he had 

 thus been unable to do much, which he feared may have been expected from him. 



He feared also, that it might now, with the scanty leisure he could still command, 

 be too late to repair this, and to regain lost time, and that he could only thus promise 

 zeal and devotion to the pursuits and interests of the Society, and express his earnest 

 desire to tread in the footsteps of his lamented brother. He looked to, and fully 

 trusted in much assistance fi-om the labours of individual Members, and in the sup- 

 port which he should receive from the Society in the election of its Officers for the 

 advancement of its interests and of its good name. 



E. B. Ryan, Esq. was proposed as a Member of the Society, by H. Torrens, Esq. 

 and seconded by 



A letter was read from Dr. HiEBERLiN, reminding the Secretary that his proposi- 

 tion to elect Dr. Ewald an Honorary Member of the Society, was yet before it. 



Dr. Ewald was unanimously elected. 



The Secretary brought to the notice of the Society, that the Collection sent out by 

 the Honourable the Court of Directors, as a basis for an Indian Museum of Economic 

 Geology, had been made over to it, and arranged in a separate room appropriated to its 

 objects; but that the extensive duties which the superintendance of a Museum of this 

 nature would require, to carry out fully, and efficiently its great obj ects, the develop- 

 ment of the whole inorganic products of India, were such, that it would require the 

 attention of an individual. He stated, that it was well known by letters from home, 



