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Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 

 (Friday Evening, 4th February, 1842.^ 



The Honourable H. T. Prinsep, Esq. President, in the Chair. 



E. B. Ryan, Esq. proposed at the last Meeting, was ballotted for and duly elect- 

 ed a Member of the Society. 



Ordered, that the usual communication of his election be made to Mr. Ryan, and 

 that he be furnished with the rules of the Society for his guidance. 



Sir E. Ryan and Dr. Ewald were also elected Honorary Members of the So- 

 ciety. 



Library. 

 The following Books were presented: — 



List of Books received for the Meeting on the 4th February, 1842. 



Vols. 



Naturalist's Library. — Mammalia, vol. 11th, Marsupials, Edinburgh, 1841, .. 1 



Transactions of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India, vol. 8th, . . 1 



Annals and Magazine of Natural History, vol. 8th, No. 48, 1 



Programme de la Societe Royale D' Agriculture et de Commerce de Caen, .... P 

 The Calcutta Christian Observer, new series, vol. 3rd, No. 26, Feb. 1842, .... 1 

 The Calcutta Monthly Journal, 3rd series, Nos. 83 & 84, October and Novem- 

 ber, 1842, 2 



The Secretary presented a model of a Ceylon Boat, casts of Zodiacal Coins, also 

 some casts of other miscellaneous Coins. A box of Coins collected in Kunnouj were 

 likewise presented by Lieut. McGregor, 66th Regt. N. I. 



Read Letter from Mr. Secretary Bushby of 3lst January 1842, with two small 

 boxes, containing two specimens of Porcelain Clay, marked Nos, 1 and 2. 



" The specimen, No. 1," writes the Principal Collector of Canara, " was taken 

 from a hill on the South bank of the Baloor river, a little to the North of Mangalore, 

 and within a mile of the Sea. A small stream of water flows from the place whence 

 it was taken, which appears to make it clear, and more free from particles of Late- 

 rite than the other specimens. The clay taken from this spot is used as chunam for 

 white- washing houses, and also by the Sepoys as pipe clay for cleaning their belts. 

 The specimen No. 2, was taken from the face of a hill a short distance from the 

 former spot." 



