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XI. — Proceedings of the Asiatic Society, 

 Wednesday Evening, the 7th February, 1838. 



D. Hare, Esq., senior member present, in the chair. 



Major W. H. Sleeman, Messrs. J. W. Grant, G. A. Prinsep, Assistant 

 Surgeon J. Arnott, and Dr. Bonsall, were elected ordinary members 

 of the Society. 



Syed Kera'mat A li, proposed at the last meeting, was upon the recom- 

 mendation of the Committee of Papers elected an associate member. 



The Chevalier Ame'de'e Jaubert, President of the Asiatic Society of 

 Paris, proposed at the last meeting, was upon the favorable report of the" 

 Committee of Papers, elected an honorary member, 



Charles Fraser, Esq. Commissioner at Hoshungabad, and Manaton 

 Ommaney, Esq., proposed by the Secretary, seconded by Col. Caulfield. 



Dr. W. H. Green, proposed by the Secretary, seconded by Dr. 

 McClelland. 



Lieut. A. JBigge, Assistant to the Governor General's agent in Assam, 

 proposed by Captain Pemberton, seconded by the Secretary. 



Mr. W. Dent, requested that his name might be withdrawn from the 

 list of members from the beginning of the current year. 



Read letters from M.E. Burnouf, and Dr. Jules Mohl, acknowledging 

 the arrival of the several cases of Sanskrit books, dispatched hence last 

 year; and presenting various works. (See Library.) 



Dr. Mohl, mentions having obtained for the Society, a ropy of the first volume 

 of the Collection Orientate now under publication at great cost by the French 

 Government. It contains the first part of Raschideddin, by M. Quatreme're 

 de Quincey. 



Also, letters from the Secretaries of the American Philosophical Society 

 and the Cambridge Philosophical Society acknowledging the receipt of 

 the Researches, vol. xx. 



Read a letter from M. Csoma de Koros, thanking the Society for the 

 renewed accommodation afforded him during his stay in Calcutta. 



Read a letter from Maha'ra'ja Hindu Rao, stating his readiness to 

 deliver the fragments of the Ancient Hindu Pillar, to the executive 

 engineer when required. 



Library. 



Read a letter from Professor Wilson, presenting copy of his translation of 

 "The Sankhya Karika" or memorial verses on the Sankhya philosophy. 



Read a letter from J. Vaugiian, Esq. Librarian of the American Philosophical 

 Society, forwarding for presentation a copy of Vol. V. part 3rd of their transactions. 



The following works presented by the Asiatic Society of Paris. 



Geographie d'Aboulfeda, texte arabe, de par M. M. Reinaud, et le Baron 

 MacGuckin de Slane. 



Elements de la langue Georgienne, par M. Brosset Jeune. 



Also, a number of duplicates of the Journal Asiatique to complete the Society's 

 series. 



The following Books were likewise presented : — 



Verhandelingen Van Het Bataviasche Genootschap Van Kunsten En Wetens- 

 chappen — by the Batavian Society. 



Narrative of a tour through the Western states of Rdjwdra in 1835, by Lieut. 

 A. H. E. Boileau, Engineers — by the Honorable Government. 



Report on Amherst Town and the Tenasseritn Provinces, by Dr. J. W. Helfer, 

 2 copies— presented by F. J. Halliday, Sec. on the part of Government. 



Reports of a committee for investigating the coal and mineral resources of India — 

 by the Committee 1 s Sec. Dr. McClelland. 



The Quarterly Journal of the Calcutta Medical and Physical Society, Nos. 4 

 and 5 — by the Editors. 



Proceedings of the Geological Society of London, No. 51 — by the Society. 



Meteorological Register for Dec. 1837— by the Surveyor General. 

 From the Booksellers. 



Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopoedia— Domestic Economy, 



Wellesley Dispatches, Vol. V, 



