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Art. IX. — Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 



{Wednesday Evening, the 2nd October , 1839.) 

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

 The Proceedings of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 

 Captain J. W. Birch was proposed by Dr. O'Shaughnessy, seconded by the chair- 

 man. 



Mr. E. K. Hume was proposed by Mr. Stocqueler, seconded by the officiating 

 Secretary. 



Read a letter from the Secretary of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, acknow- 

 ledging the receipt of copies of the Journal of the Asiatic Society. 



Read a letter from Messrs. W. H. Allen and Co., Book Agents of the Society in 

 London, forwarding account sales of the Transactions and Oriental publications, to- 

 gether with a statement of books supplied by them to the Society, exhibiting a 

 balance of 16£. 12*. 2d. in their favor. 



Library. 

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

 forwarding the following books for presentation to the Society : — 



Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 6th, part 2nd., New Series. 

 Memoir of Dr. P. S. Physick, by J. Randolph, 1 vol. 

 Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Nos. 3, 4, 5, and 6. 

 Medical Statistics from 1821 to 1830, by G. Emeron, Esq. 

 Read a letter from Mr. J. Avdall, forwarding for presentation a copy of an Arme- 

 nian and French Grammar. 



Read a letter from H. T. Prinsep, Esq. Secretary to the Government of India, 

 forwarding 50 copies of the Rev. W. Taylor's examination and analysis of Colonel 

 Mackenzie's Manuscripts. 

 The following Books were presented : — 

 Bulletin de la Societe Geographique, vol. 10 — by the Society. 

 Proceedings of the Geological Society, Nos. 60 and 61, with a list of its Members — 

 by the Society. 



Proceedings of the Committee of Commerce and Agriculture of the Royal Asiatic 

 Society — by the Society. 

 Transactions of the Society of Arts, &c. vol 52, part 1st.— by the Society. 

 Crisp's observations on the abolition of the Impress System in two letters, addressed 

 to J. W. Cooper, Esq.— by the Author. 

 Ditto, Treatise on Marine Ai'chitecture. 

 Notice Historique sur la vie et les Voyages de Rene Caillie, par M. Jomard, 



Paris, 1839. 

 L' Inde Francaise ou collection de dessins Lithographies, representant les Divi 

 nites, &c. &c. des peuples Hindoues qui habitent les possessions Franchises de 1' 

 Inde, et en general la Cote de Coromandel et de Malabar, par M. J. J. Cha- 

 brelie, avec un texte explicatif, par E. Burnouf et E. Jacquet. Paris, 1827 

 et 1835. Tome 1st and 2nd, folio, 2 copies— /rom the Government of India. 



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