1842.] Asiatic Society. 93 



that the Court of Directors had authorised the Government to incur the expence of 

 the nomination of a person charged to carry out their views, and that it might thus 

 not be improper, were the Society to address Government on the subject It was 

 agreed that this matter should be left to the Committee of Papers. 



The following Books, &c. were presented, and the thanks of the Society recorded 

 for them : — 



List of Books received for the Library of the Asiatic Society, for the Meeting on the 



2\st January, 1842. 



Lane's Dictionary, English and Burmese. Calcutta, 1841, (3 copies). 

 Journal of the Bombay Branch Society. No. 2, October 1841, pamphlet. 

 The Calcutta Christian Observer. January, 1842, No 25, ditto. 

 The Oriental Christian Spectator. November 1841, Bombay, vol. 2d, No. I J, 



second series, ditto. 

 Society for the Encourgement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce. Premiums 



for the Sessions 1840-41, 1841-42. London, 1840, six copies, ditto. 

 Transactions of the Society for the Encourgement of Arts, &c. during the Sessions 



1839-40, vol. 53d, part 1. 

 London, Edinburgh; and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, 



3d series, vol. 19, No. 122, August 1841, London, pamphlet. 

 Proceedings of the London Electrical Society, Sessions 1841-42, London, ditto. 

 Transactions of the Geological Society of London, 2d series, vol. 6th, part 1st, 



1841, ditto. 

 Journal des Savans. Mai, 1841. Paris. 

 Kittoe's Illustrations of Indian Architecture from the Mohammedan Conquest 



downwards. 1838, Nos. 1 to 12 and 21 Plates, equal to 5 Numbers. One plate 



over. 

 The Silurian System, from the Edinburgh Review, April 1841, No. 147. 

 Yarrell's History of British Birds. London, part 27th. 

 Some Account of the General and Medical Topography of Ajmeer, by R. H. 



Irvine. Calcutta, 1841. 

 Di un Vaso Greco Dipinto che si conserva nel real Museo Borbonico Discorso del 



Cavalier Bernardo Quaranta. Pamphlet. 

 Sula figura e L'Iscrizione egizia in cise in uno Smeraldo Quaranta. Napoli, 1826 



ditto. 

 Nafhatul Yaman, a collection of pleasing stories and compositions, both in prose 



and verse. Hooghly, 1841. 

 Diwani Mootanubee. Hooghly, 1841. 



Callery. Systema Phoneticum Scripturae Sinecse, pars prima et secunda. Ma- 

 cao, 1841. 

 Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 1841, vol. 2d, part 17th, 



pamphlet. 

 Icones Plantarum Indiae Orientalis, by R. Wight. Vol. 2d, part 3d, ditto. 

 Transactions of the London Electric Society, from 1837 to 1840, London, 1841. 

 Spry's Plants, &c. required for India. Calcutta, 1841, (5 copies). 

 Masnabee-Kanoor, in Oordoo. 

 Naphasil-Logawd, in Persian. 



