1838.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 459 



The following were also presented. 



Proceedings of the Agricultural Society of India, January to May, 1838 — by 

 the Society 



W. Adam's Third Report on Educational Statistics of India — by the author. 



The Meteorological Register — by the Surveyor General. 



Fauna Boreali-Americana, or Zoology of the Northern parts of British Ame- 

 rica. Part 2nd, containing the birds, with plates and cuts, by Dr. Richardson 

 and W. Swainson, Esq. London, 1831, 4to. 524 pages, Rs. 50-^purchasedfor 

 the Society by the Museum Committee. 



11 vols. Naturalist's Library, edited by Sir William Jardine, at 3 Rs. per 

 vol. the remaining vols, to be supplied at the same price — ditto. 



Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia, Treatise on Geology, Vol. I. London, 1837 — 

 from the booksellers. 



Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Italy, Spain and Portugal, 



Vol. III. London, 1837— /rom ditto. 



Two series of circulars, one addressed to the Asiatic Society of Bengal,, 

 the other to the Asiatic Society of Calcutta ! forwarding prospectus of 

 Foote's medical pocket book and almanack. 



Literary and Antiquities. 



Mr. Secretary Prinsep, transmitted on the part of Government, voca- 

 bularies of the Baraky. and of five other languages spoken in the Panjab, 

 compiled by Lieutenant R. Leech, of the Bombay Engineers. 



In reply to the Society's application to the Governor General of the 

 15th December, requesting that the executive engineer might be permit- 

 ted to effect the conveyance of the broken pillar presented to the Society 

 by Raja Hindu Rao from Delhi to Calcutta, Mr. Secy. Macnaghten for* 

 warded copies of correspondence with Captain G. Thomson, and Captain 

 T. S. Burt of Engineers on the subject, and requested on the part of the 

 Gov. Gen. to know whether the Society would still wish its removal. 



Captain Thomson reported that the transportation of the shaft would cost 

 2000 rupees : — but Captain Burt suggested that by cutting off the inscribed part 

 it might be sent down for a tenth of that sum, though he doubted whether a fac- 

 simile would not answer every purpose, considering the mutilated condition of 

 the inscription. 



The object of possessing the Delhi fragment in the Society's museum being ra- 

 ther as the only actual specimen of the ancient character which it would be possi- 

 ble to make portable, than for the sake of reading its contents, which are known 

 and published in the Journal for last September, it was resolved still to re- 

 quest the aid of the Governor General for the dispatch, of the inscribed portion 

 at least of the shaft under the superintendence of Captain Burt. 



Mr. B. H. Hodgson having been informed of the Society's wish to 

 publish the text of the Lafita vistara in Sanskrit and Tibetan with a trans- 

 lation by M. Csoma de Koros, sent down two more manuscripts of this 

 standard Buddhist work for collation with the Society's copy as it passes 

 through the press. One of these copies bears the marks of great anti- 

 quity, and both are more correct than the copy in the library. 



Major James Low, M. A. S. C. offered to the Society for publication a 

 paper entitled " Excursions to the Eastward, No. 1, or extracts from the 

 journal of a Political Mission to the raja of Ligor in Lower Sidm, with 

 drawings. 



Captain T. S. Burt forwarded the 87 facsimiles of various inscriptions 

 mentioned at the last meeting. 



He had also lately taken with considerable trouble, complete impressions 

 of the Feroz lath inscriptions and of the inscription on the iron pillar 

 at Delhi, which has been so long a desideratum. They had been made over 

 to the Secy. Gov. Gen. for transmission. 

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