688 Asiatic Society. [August, 



Recherches sur les Ossemens Fossiles, par G. Cuvier, 4th edition Paris, 1834 a 



1837, 8vo. 

 Atlas, a ditto ditto, en Livraisons. 

 Le Regne Animal distribue d' apres son Organisation, par G. Cuvier, Paris, 



1835, Liv. 49 Molusques, lOmo. Liv. 

 Compendium Logical— presented by the Bishop of Isauropolis. 



The following books were received from the Booksellers : — 

 Royle's Illustrations of Botany, part 10th. 

 Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia ; History of England. 

 Alif Leila, 5 copies — subscribed for by the Society. 



The Officiating Secretary laid before the Meeting the Second Part of the 19th vol. 

 of the Transactions of the Society. 



Mr. Bouchez, the assistant Librarian of the Asiatic Society, submitted to the Meet- 

 ing a Manuscript Catalogue of the Society's books, with a request that it be printed. 



Resolved — That the Catalogue be referred to the Committee of Papers. 



Shah Kabeer Uddeen laid before the Meeting a Manuscript copy of the Zeech 

 Bahadur Khanee, with a request that the Society would join him in paying half the 

 expense of its printing, on the same footing as it has done towards the printing of the 

 Sharya ul Islam. 



Resolved — That a Committee be formed consisting of Mr. H. T. Prinsep, Mr. 

 J. C. C. Sutherland, Mr. John Curnin, My. James Middleton, and the Rev. 

 H. Pratt, to report as to the merits of the work. 



Museum. — Note by Dr. McClelland: — 



" Skeletons, presented by the King of Oude, of an Elephant, of a Camel, and of a 

 Tiger. The first has been indifferently prepared and worse treated, the cartilages and 

 apophyses are detached, the former as well as some of the caudal vertebrae, and the 

 last range of tarsal and carpal phalanges are altogether wanting. 



The Camel, otherwise a valuable addition to our Museum, wants the entire caudal 

 vertebrae, together with two pieces of the sternum, anterior part of the jaws, and cor- 

 responding teeth, together with some of the tarsal and carpal phalanges, cartilages 

 of the ribs, &c. 



The Tiger wants two caudal vertebrae, a femur, and twenty-two phalanges of the 

 tarsus and carpus. 



Skeleton and skin of a Kangaroo prepared from a specimen presented by Mr. H. 

 T. Prinsep. 



The skin of a Boa, twenty feet long, presented by Ensign R. W. Bird, 4th Regt. 

 N. I. with the following note from the Hon. Mr. William Wilberforce Bird. 



' I have the pleasure to forward the skin of a Boa, which I have been requested 

 to present on the part of Ensign Robert Wilberforce Bird, of the 4th Regt. N. I. 

 for the Museum of the Asiatic Society. 



When the Boa was shot, it measured 21 feet, in length. It had swallowed a spotted 

 Deer, which was taken out of the inside, not too much decomposed for the spots in 

 the skin to be quite distinct. Where the Deer was, the skin measured three feet 

 one inch across. 



{Signed) W. W. BIRD.' 



