18390 Asiatic Society. 957 



Annuaire des Marees des Cotes de France pour L'an 1839, publie au Dept. de la 

 Marine. Par A. M. R. Chayallon. 



Memoire Sur les Divers Moyens de Se Procurer Une Base. Par A. M. R. Chay- 

 allon. 



Nieuwe Verhandelungen der Erste Klasse, Van het Konin Glijk Nederlandische 

 Institut, vol. 6 and 7. 



Solemnia Natalitia Regis Augustissimi ac Potentissimi Frederici Wilhelmi III. 



ac Aug. Ill edited by Professor A. G. Schlegel, Bonn 1839, by the 



Author. 



Memoire sur le systeme Grammatical des Langues. Par M. P. et Du Ponceau, 

 L.L.D. by the Author. 



The American Almanac and Repository for 1839 by the American Philosophi- 

 cal Society. 



The East Indian Journal, No. 2, by R. C. Woods, L.L.D. by the Author. 



A Sketch of the Argument for Christianity and against Hinduism, (Sanscrit) by 

 J. Muir, Esq. B.C.S. by the Author. 



Meteorological Register for December, 1839 by the Surveyor General. 



The following books were received from the booksellers : — 



Journal des Savans, for May and June, 1839. 

 Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia — History ; vol. 2. 



Illustrations of Ornithology, by Jar dine and Selby, purchased from a number 

 for Co's. Rs. 100. 



Literary. 



Mr. Secretary Prinsep forwarded on the part of Government the following papers 

 for publication in the Society's Transactions, or in its Journal : — 



Dr. J. W. Helfer's third and fourth Report on Tenasserim, the surrounding 

 nations, inhabitants— natives and foreigners, character, morals and religion. 



Dr. Richardson's Proceedings on his Mission to Siam and the Shan states, with 

 a Map of Siam. 



Dr. Campbell's Notes on the Mechis, with a Vocabulary of their language. 



The officiating Secretary apprized the Meeting of his having received from Lieut. 

 T. Hutton the first part of his " Journal of a trip through Kunawur, Hungrung, and 

 Spiti," to the expenses of which the Society had contributed a sum of 1000 Rs. pursuant 

 to the resolution passed at the Meeting held on 1st Nov. 1837, (J. A. S. vol. G p. 898.) 



Mr. J. W. Laidlay forwarded a paper on Mohammedan Coins. 



Museum. 

 The officiating Secretary then requested the attention of the Meeting to a very 

 important dispatch recently received from the Court of Directors.— This dispatch 

 rendered it necessary to assign 250 rupees per mensem to the salary of a Curator.— Tho 

 Committee of Papers had taken the subject into their serious consideration, and their 

 Minutes are accordingly appended to the official letter. 



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