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Philadelphian Medical Museum, vols. I, 2, 3, 4, 5, (the first out of print.) 

 The emporium of arts and sciences, conducted by Dr. Coxe, Philadelphia — 1812- 

 13, Nos. 1 to 12 forming two vols. 



Practical observations on vaccination — by the same. 

 ^Esculapean Register, 1824 — by the same. 



Observations on combustion and acidification, Pamphlet, Philad, 1811. 

 Observations on a letter from Dr. N. Chapman to Dr. W. B. Tyler on cho- 

 lera, Philad. 1833. 



Some observations on the Jalap plant. 



An introduction to solid Geometry and to the study of chrystallography by N. 

 J. Larkin, M. G. S. London, 1820. 



Appeal to the public from the proceedings of the Trustees of the University of 

 Pensylvania. 



A letter from J. Vaughan, Esq. librarian of the American Philosophi- 

 cal Society was read, forwarding the following works. 



Darlington's Flora Cestrica, or description of the flowering and filicoid plants of 

 Chester county Pensylvania. 

 American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge, 1838. 

 Notice of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Dr. Harlan — 

 presented by the author. 



The following w6re also presented : 



The proceedings of the Bombay Geographical Society, for February 1838, for- 

 warded by the Society. 



Radde-u-din-musalmani or refutation of Muhammedanisra, by the Rev. J. Wil- 

 son, D. D. Bombay, 1836— by the Author. 



Proceedings of the Agricultural Society — by the Secretary. 



Colonel Macleod, V. P. Chief Engineer, presented Gregory's Highland and 

 Isles of Scotland. 



Dorje-ling, a compilation of all the official information, respecting the capabilities 

 of that station, as a Sanatarium — by H. V. Bayley, Esq. C. S. 



KiRBYand Spence's Entomology of Insects, 2 vols. — presented by W. Cracroft,Esq. 



Museum of Antiquities. 

 Lieutenant-Colonel Stacy, submitted for inspection and temporary- 

 deposit in the Society's Museum, a female image procured at Muttra ; 

 supposed to mark an epoch in Hindu sculpture, on which subject a note 

 by the proprietor was read. 



Captain A. Cunningham, presented two fragments of sculpture procur- 

 ed by him in his journey to Simla ; one of them bears the following date. 

 #3"rl *A£^ ^SU'sC ^f^ 8 xfa f^if — the name of the maker of the image is 

 worn and illegible. 



On the top of this fragment are two feet of a female with bangles. 

 The other fragment (in mottled sandstone, is of Devi holding a child 

 (Ganes) in her lap. 



The Secretary read the following reply from the Secretary to the 

 Governor General, relative to the further examination of the antiquities 

 of Junagarh and Girinagar in Gujerat. 



To J. Prinsep, Esq. 



Secretary to the Asiatic Society. 

 Sir, 



I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, dated the 28th ultimo, 

 to the address of the Right Honorable the Governor General, and in reply, to 

 transmit for your information copy of a communication this day made by me under 

 the instructions of His Lordship, to the Acting Chief Secretary to the Government 

 of Bombay, to depute a qualified officer for the purpose of taking a facsimile of the 

 inscriptions alluded to, and generally, to collect all information which can be had 

 regarding them, as suggested by you. 



I have the honor to be, &c. 



(Signed) W. H. Macnaghten, 



Simla, ISth April, 1838. Secy, to the Govt, of India, with the Govr. Genl. 



To L. R. Reid, Esq. Acting Chief Secy, to the Govt, of Bombay. 

 Sir, 



I am desired by the Right Honorable the Governor General to forward to you 

 for the purpose of being laid before the Right Honorable the Governor in Council 



