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and seventy guineas, (136J. 10s.) and it should be paid as soon as the busts are 

 removed. I am not aware however if any arrangement has been made to remit the 

 above sums, although I apprised Mr. Prinsep of the amount. His lamented indisposi- 

 tion, and hurried departure from India, will probably have prevented him from taking 

 any steps on the occasion. If the remittance has been made, I shall be obliged to you 

 to inform me in what manner; if not, as is most likely, I shall be obliged to you to ob- 

 tain the authority of the Society to the money being sent me without delay. 



It is very probable that a similar omission may have occurred in regard to the amount 

 of Dr. Mill's bust, which you will therefore be kind enough to correct by forwarding 

 the amount either to him or to me The plaster model of his bust is completed, and 

 is most excellent, both as to its general character and individual resemblance. It and 

 the other two will form most admirable, as well as appropriate decorations of the 

 Society's apartments. Yours very truly, 



H. H. WILSON. 



The Secretary informed the Meeting that the draft for 136J. 10*. has been remitted 

 to Dr. Wilson by the last Overland; and that subsequent inquiry had shewn that Mr. 

 Prinsep had a larger sum than that required at the credit of the Society in the hands 

 of his London Agents. 



Read a letter from J. Forshall, Esq., Secretary to the British Museum, acknow- 

 ledging receipt of No. 80 of the Journal Asiatic Society. 



The Secretary brought to the notice of the Meeting that the present Pundit, Ram- 

 govind Gossamee, has been found incompetent to decypher the Inscriptions to which 

 the Society are most desirous to give publicity, either in their monthly publication, 

 or in their Transactions, he therefore proposed that the celebrated Kamalakantha 

 Vidyalanka be appointed for that office, and also as the Librarian for the Oriental 

 Books. 



The proposition was unanimously carried. 



Library. 



The Secretary informed the Meeting of the arrival of several books selected by Pro- 

 fessor Wilson and Dr. Cantor, amounting in cost to 63£. 4s. 6d. } as per list forwarded 

 by the booksellers, Messrs. Allen and Co. 



Lindley's Fossil Flora, 3 vols. 8vo. boards. 

 Agassiz' Fossil Fishes, Parts I to 9 and 11, folio and 4to. 

 Russell's Fishes of the Coromandel Coast, 2 vols, folio. 

 Russell's continuation of the Coromandel Serpents, 2 vols, folio. 

 . Cuvier and Valenciennes Histoire Naturelle des Poissons, vols. 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12. 

 Do. additional plates, to vol. 11, 8vo. 



Crouch's Introduction to Lamarck's Conchology, coloured 4to. boards. 

 Gould's Himalayan Birds, 1 vol. imperial folio, 



Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia— from the Booksellers. 



