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VIII. — Proceedings of the Asiatic Society 

 Wednesday Evening, the 4>th April, 1838. 



The Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Calcutta, in the chair. 



Dr. H. H. Spry, proposed at the last meeting, was elected by ballot a 

 member of the Society. 



Dr. F. Huffnagle, was proposed by Mr. G. A. Prinsep. seconded by 

 the Secretary. 



Correspondence. 



Read letters from Edward R. Daniell, Esq. Secretary to the Royal 

 Institution, Edward Balfour, Esq. Secretary of the Royal College of 

 Surgeons, and Charles Konig, Esq. Secretary of the Royal Society of 

 London, acknowledging the receipt of the last volume of the Researches 

 and Journal. 



Read a letter from H. Douglas, Esq. (senior member of the Civil Ser- 

 vice, lately retired.) dated Patnn, 14th March, 1838, acknowledging the 

 receipt of a copy of the Khazdnatul Km, presented to him by the Society 

 in consequence of the great assistance afforded by him to its compiler 

 Khanji' as mentioned with gratitude in his preface. 



Mr. D. states that the relatives of the author are poor and uneducated, 

 and a presentation copy would be thrown away on them. 



Read a letter from Jules Desjardins, Esq. Secretary to the Natural 

 History Society of the Mauritius, acknowledging receipt of the Oriental 

 publications of the Society, and forwarding for presentation to the Society, 

 continuation of the Meteorological observations kept by himself from 

 June to September, 1837. 



In reply to the Society's circular regarding tidal observations, M. Desjardins 

 states that Mr. Lloyd, Chief Engineer on the island, had organized a complete 

 series which had been sent direct to Professor Whewell. 



Also a letter from M. Rouy de Rochelle, President of the Geogra- 

 phical Society of Paris, forwarding the 7th volume of their bulletin, and 

 noticing the receipt by mistake of duplicate of the Researches. 



Also, a letter of thanks from Professor Bopp for the Mahabhdrata, &c. 

 and presenting his own works in return. (See library.) 



Museum. 



Colonel McLeod had completed the erection of the pillar upon which 

 the JJust f Wilson was set at the entrance into the oriental end of the 

 Library : he received the thanks of the Society for the superior manner 

 in which it was executed. 



Library. 



The following books were presented by the authors : 



Vergleichende Grammatik — or Comparative Grammar of the Sanscrit, Zend, Greek, 

 Latin, Lithuanian, Gothic, and German languages, three parts— by Professor Franz 

 Bopp. 



Text and Latin translation of the episode of Nalus from the Mahabhdrata, second 

 part — by the same. 



Notice du Traite" Persan sur les vertus de Hu9ain waiz Koschifl, intitule, Akhla- 

 quiMuh^ni, de M. Garcin de Tassy. 



Map of the Post roads in India — presented by Captain Taylor. 



The following by Societies and editors. 



Bulletin de la Soci£t£ de Geographic Vol. VII. — by the Geog. Soc. of Paris. 



Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay— by the Society 

 through C. Morehead, Esq. Secretary. 



Quarterly Journal of the Madras Literary Society— by Dr. Cole, Secretary and 

 Editor. 



The Chinese Repository, Vols. II, III, IV, V, and part of VI— presented by R. 

 lnglis, Esq. 



The following works were presented by Captain T. S. Burt, Engineers. 



Burt's Observations on Nature, I vol. edited by his son. 



Burt's Christianity, a poem with notes, ditto. 



