984 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [No?. 



Read extracts of a letter from M. Garcin de Tassy, dated Marseilles, 

 11th September, 1838, acknowledging receipt of catalogue of Arabic, 

 Persian and Oordoo works belonging to the Asiatic Society. M. de 

 T assy's letter gave cover to a prospectus of his work on Hindustani lite- 

 rature. The prospectus with a list of subscribers is printed in the number 

 of the Journal of the Society for November. 



Read extracts of letters from M. E. Burnouf, Secretary, Asiatic Society 

 of Paris, in acknowledgment of several numbers of the Journal of the 

 Asiatic Society. 



Read an application from Herambanath Thakoor, applying for an 

 increase of his salary. 



Resolved, that the application be referred to the Committee of Finance 

 to settle the amount. 



On the suggestion of the President, seconded by the Secretary, Mr. W. 

 Grant was proposed a member of the Statistical Committee. 



In pursuance of a letter addressed to the Society by Mr. Secretary 

 Macnaghten, read on the 10th October last, regarding the interchange 

 of publications with his Highness the Pasha of Egypt, the Secretary ap- 

 prized the meeting that he had forwarded a set of all the Arabic publica- 

 tions printed by the Society to his Highness the Pasha of Egypt, and like- 

 wise certain Arabic books selected by Mr. Prinsep and purchased by 

 Government for the use of the institutions established by his Highness. 



Library. 

 The following books were presented. 



On the primary forces of electricity, by Richard Laming, M. R. S.— by the 

 Author. 



Proceedings of the Geological Society, Vol. II. No. 56— by the Society. 



Notice surdes Vetements avee des Inscriptions Arabes, Parsanes et Hindustani, 

 par M. Garcin de Tassy— by the Author. 



Meteorological Registers for September and October, 1838— by the Surveyor 

 General. 



Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia— History of England, Vol. 8— from the booksellers. 



The officiating Secretary laid before the meeting a printed list of the 

 Members of the Society, prepared by Mr. James Prinsep. 



Resolved, that the copies be distributed among the Members. 



Read a letter from the Right Rev. John Lewis, Bishop of Isauropolis 

 and Vicar Apostolic of Bengal, forwarding a copy of his publication of the 

 Cochin-Chinese and Latin and Anamitan Dictionary, and requesting the 

 Society to apply to Government for 100 copies of the Anamitan part of 

 the work, besides the 100 copies already offered by the Author. 



Resolved, that an application be made to Government for the purchase 

 of the additional copies, as requested by the Bishop of Isauropolis. 



Literary and Antiquities. 

 Read a letter from Captain F. Dashwood, Assistant Secretary to the 

 Military Board, intimating that the principal commissary of ordnance has 

 been requested to send the Buddhist stone pillar, on its arrival from Delhi, 



