72 Asiatic Society. [1839. 



Art. IX. — Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 



Wednesday Evening, the 2d January, 1839. 



The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Calcutta, Vice-President, in the chair. 



The Proceedings of the last Meeting were read. 



The Meeting then proceeded to the election of Office-bearers for the ensuing year, 



when the following gentlemen were chosen : — 



The Right Rev. Lord Bishop of Calcutta, -x 



The Honble. Sir J. P- Grant, ! „ r . '■ , Tr . „ ., 



TT „ „ „ > Were elected Vice-Presidents. 



H. T. Prinsep, Esq., j 



Col D. MacLeod, J 



Mr. W. Cracroft, Capt. Forbes, >w 



Mr. W. P. Grant, Dr. Stewart, | 



Mr. D. Hare, and ^ Me j£ b °™ ° f the Committee of 



Dr. Geo. Evans, Dr. Wallich. j 



Dr. M'Clelland, J 



Dr. Goodeve and Mr. R. O'Shaughnessy, proposed at the last Meeting, were 

 balloted for, and duly elected Members of the Society. 



Messrs. A. Porteous and J. Cowie were proposed by the Officiating Secretary, 

 seconded by the Vice-President. 



Dr. O'Shaughnessy apprised the Meeting that the Committee of Finance had 

 recommended 20 rupees per mensem, as an increase to the Clerk Herambanath 

 Thakur's salary. 



Resolved, — That the meeting approve of the decision of the Committee of Finance, 

 and that it take effect from the date of the Clerk's application. 



Read a letter from J. K. Kane, Esq., Secretary of the American Philosophical 

 Society, acknowledging receipt of the first part of vols. 19 and 20 of the Asiatic 

 Researches, and vols. 5 and 6 of the Journal of the Asiatic Society. 



Library. 



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

 Society, forwarding the following works for presentation to the Society — 



Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 6, Part 1, New Series. 



Transactions of the Literary and Historical Committee of the Society. 



Read a letter from M. Cassin, Book Agent of the Society in Paris, enclosing 

 account of sales of oriental publications sold by him in France, and forwarding from 

 the proceeds thereof several recent publications for the use of the Society. He had 

 likewise sent several books for sale in this country. 



Resolved, — That the books for sale be advertized on the cover of the Journal, 

 Asiatic Society, with their prices. 



A brochure by the Royal Society of Cornwall, presented by Capt. F. Jenkins 

 through Dr. Wallich. 



Meteorological Registers kept at the Mauritius, during the last six months of 1836, 

 and first six months of 1837, were presented by M, Julien Desjardins, Secretary 

 of the Natural History Society of the Mauritius. 



Read a letter from Madhushudana Gupta, forwarding specimens of the plates for 

 the " Sarira Vidya" engraved by Native artists. 



The Officiating Secretary with reference to the very high cost and inferior execution 

 of the plates submitted, proposed a reference by the overland mail to Professors 

 Quain and Paxton, by whose friendly co-operation he had no doubt casts of their 

 anatomical wood-cuts could be procured at half the price, and in half the time the 

 Native artist would require. 



The proposition was seconded by Baboo Ramcomul Sen, and unanimously 

 agreed to. 



