1838.] Proceedings of the Society, 917 



Read a letter from Lieut. J. Duncan, acknowledging his election as an 

 ordinary member of the Society. 



Ditto from Monsieur Jaubert, President of the Geographical Society 

 of Paris, acknowledging his election as an honorary member. 



Library. 



Read a letter from J. Bell, Esq., Secretary to the Agricultural and 

 Horticultural Society, forwarding, for presentation on behalf of the Society, 

 three pamphlets, Nos. 1, % and 3 on Cochineal. 



The following books were presented : 



Notes on the Agricultural and Rural Economy of the Valley of Nipal, by Dr. 

 A. Campbell of Nipal— by the Author, through the Hon'ble Col. W. Morison. 



Barometrical and Thermometiical Observations — ditto by ditto. 



Hourly observations during the last summer at ditto— % ditto. 



Memoires sur Quelques Coquilles Fluviatiles at terrestres D'Amerique per 

 Stefano Moricard, Ceretrail des Memoires de la Society de Physique et d'Histoire" 

 Naturelle de Geneve, 1833-34— by the Author. 



The Oriental Christian Spectator, October, 1838— by Bev. J. Wilson Bensley, 



Madras Journal of Science, No. 20— by the Madras Literary Society. 



The following from the Booksellers : 



Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia (Biography), Eminent Foreign Statesmen, vol. 5. 



Ditto ditto (History), Greece, vol. 5. 



Torrens's Translation of the book entitled The One Thousand Nights and One 

 Night, vol. I., five copies— subscribed by the Society. 



Literary and Antiquities. 



Read a letter from Mr. Secretary Prinsep, forwarding copy of a Re- 

 port on the Weights, Measures, and Coins of Cdbul and Bukhara, compiled 

 by Nowrojee Furdoonjee. 



[Note. — This Report is printed in the present number of the Journal.] 



Lieut. G. C. Hellerigs, presenting his translation of certain chapters of 

 the Akhlaqi Jallilee, from the Persian into Hindi and English. 



Read a letter from Mr. W. T. Lewis, dated Penang, 12th Sept. 1838, 

 forwarding a piece of the metal of which the bell at Malacca is composed, 

 and stated, from what he had learnt from the artists, that the metal in 

 question was supposed to contain a large portion of gold. 



Drawings of the Siamese Emperor were presented by Mr. J. Low. 



Three copper coins of Ceylon were presented by Mr. Layard. 



Physical. 



Read a letter from Mr. Secretary Prinsep, forwarding a list of the 

 ornithological specimens collected by Dr. Helfer during his sojourn in the 

 Tenasserim Provinces. 



A letter from Capt. G. T. Graham, offering to take charge of such 

 specimens of natural history as the Society may desire to send to his 

 Highness the Pasha of Egypt. 



Resolved, — That the thanks of the Society be presented to Capt. Graham 

 for his kind offer, and that he be informed that the Society has nothing 

 at present worthy of being presented to his Highness the Pasha. 



