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Art. IV. — Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 



(Wednesday Evening, the 5th February, 1840.) 



The Proceedings of the last Meeting were read. 



His Excellency Sir Jasper Nicolls, Commander-in-Chief, &c. &c. and Maha- 

 Rajah Rahmut Ali Khan, proposed at the last Meeting, were ballottcd for, and duly 

 elected Members of the Society. 



The Society then proceeded to the election of Vice-Presidents and the Committee 

 of Papers for the ensuing year, when the following gentlemen were chosen : — 



Vice-Presidents. 

 The Honorable Sir J. P. Grant. The Honorable H. T. Prinsep, Esq. 

 Colonel D. McLeod. The Honorable Sir H. Seton. 



Members of the Committee of Papers. 

 W. Grant, Esq. Dr. D. Stewart. 



Major W. N. Forbes. D. Hare, Esq. 



Dr. J. M'Clelland. H. Torrens, Esq. 



Dr. N. Wallich. Dr. Grant. 



Mr. James Colquhoun proposed by Mr. Sutherland, secondedby Dr. O'Shaugh- 



NESSY. 



Captain Swetenham proposed by Major Forbes, seconded by Mr. Sutherland. 



C. K. Robison, Esq. proposed by Major Forbes, seconded by Mr. Suther- 

 land. 



Mr. Thomas Charles Cadogan proposed by Mr. Bagshaw, seconded by Sir 

 H. Seton. 



Mr. R. H. Mathews proposed by Mr. Bagshaw, seconded by Mr. H. T. Prinsep. 



The officiating Secretary informed the meeting that the Committee of Papers propose 

 M. Renaud as an Honorary Member, in succession to the late illustrious M. Silvestre 

 de Sacv. 



Read the following letter from Professor H. H. Wilson, dated East India House, 

 3rd December 1839, intimating his having forwarded through Messrs. Allen and Co. 

 the busts of Sir W. Jones and Mr. H. T. Colebrookb. 



East India House, 3rd Dec. 1839. 

 My dear Sir, — I have an opportunity of acknowledging your late, as well as your 

 former overland letter at the same time. As the letter of the 27th August reached me 

 this morning, just in time for to-morrow's mail, there will not be time to attend to any 

 of its contents before the dispatch is made up, but I will make the inquiries respecting 

 the anatomical plates without delay. There would be no difficulty in printing the 

 work altogether in this country, and both for the sake of science and my friend Modhu- 

 sudan Gupta I should willingly act as editor; he would probably, however, prefer 

 correcting his own work. 



