1842.] Asiatic Society. 877 



The Secretary submits in Persian and Oordoo MS. the work entitled 

 " Tareekh-i-Nadree," proposed to be printed. The Secretary stated, that he 

 had taken every care to procure the best MS. for collation. He had sent for 

 the purpose to Lucknow, and had received thence, and from other parts 

 of the country, nine MS. some of them having the character of great 

 correctness. These MS. would be collated by Molvee Gholam Ukbar, 

 Persian Librarian to the Society, with the aid of some native friends of 

 the Secretary, who after careful perusal of the MS. produced by the 

 collation, would submit it for approval to the Hon'ble the President. Or- 

 dered accordingly. 



Ordered — That the Librarian of the Society be directed, with the aid of 

 Readers, to prepare a List of the Readings of the Books, vol. 1 to 8. 



Library. 



The following Books were presented : — 



Books received for the Library of the Asiatic Society, for the Meeting on the %d Sept. 1842. 



The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, by Professor Jameson, No. 64. 



Edinburgh, 1842, from the Editor. 

 Minutes of the Committee of Council on Education. London, J 841, from Govt. 

 Reports on the training of Pauper Children. London, 1841, from Govt. 

 Naturalist's Library. — Ornithology, Vol. XII. British Birds. (Purchased.) 



.—Entomology, Vol. VII. Foreign Moths. (Ditto.) 



Lyeli's Principles of Geology, sixth edition. London, 1840, 3 vols. (Ditto.) 

 Merrat-ul-Janaun, Maroof Tarikh-ia-pha-i, 1 vol. 



The Calcutta Literary Gleaner, Vol. I, No. VII. Sept. 1842, from the Editor. 

 Oriental Christian Spectator, June 1842, second series. Vol. 3d, No. 6, from the 



Editor. 

 Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, January 1842, No. 3, 



from the Society. 

 The Report of the British Association for the advancement of Science, for 1841. 



London, 1842, one vol. from the Association. \ 



The Trials of P. and M. Wallace. London, 1841, one vol. from A. Rogers, Esq. 

 Yarrell's History of British Birds. London, 1842, Vol. III. pt. 29, purchased. 

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



Vol. XX, Nos. 129 and 131, purchased. 

 The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Vol. IX, No. 67, purchased. 

 Royle on the Production of Isinglass along the Coast of India. London, 1842. 



Two Copies, from the Author, P. 

 Hesychii Glossographi discipulus. Edidit B. Kapitar. Vindobonse, 1840. 

 Wilson's Translations of the Vishnu Purana, London, 1840, 1 vol. from the 



Author. 

 A Bengalee Pottee MS. from 



