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Art. VI. — Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 



( Wednesday Evening, the 4th March, 1840., 



The Honorable Sir E. Ryan, President, in the chair. 



The Proceedings of the last Meeting were read. 



Messrs. James Colquhoun, H. Sweetenham, C. K. Robison, T. C. Cadogan, 

 and R. H. Mathews, proposed at the last Meeting, were balloted for and duly elected 

 Members of the Society. 



M. Renaud proposed at the last Meeting, was upon the favourable report of the 

 Committee of Papers elected an honorary Member of the Society. 



The Rev. A.W. Street proposed by Dr. O'Shaughnessv, seconded by Mr. 

 Sutherland. 



Rajah Kishtna Nath Roy proposed by Mr. Sutherland, seconded by Dr. 

 O'Shaughnessy. 



Read letters from Messrs. A. Porteus and W. A.. Green, withdrawing themselves 

 from the Society. 



Read a letter from Messrs. W. H. Allen and Co. intimating their having for- 

 warded the busts of Sir Wm. Jones and Mr. Colebrooke, per ship "Felicity." (The 

 busts arrived on the 20th April in perfect safety.) 



Read a letter from James Reynolds, Esq., Secretary to the Oriental Translation 

 Fund of the Royal Asiatic Society, stating that arrears of the Society's subscriptions 

 were due to the amount of 42£., from 1836 to 1839 inclusive. 



The Secretary informed the Meeting that the Society's Book Agents in London 

 have been instructed to discharge the claim in question. 



Library. 



The following books were presented : — 



The East Indian Journal of Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts, No. 1, by R. 

 C. Woods, Esq. L.L.D. by the Author. 



Esquisse Generale de 1' Afrique by Mr. M. D' Avergac, by the Author. 



through R. C. Woods, Esq., L.L.D. 



Proceedings of the Bombay Geographical Society, May, 1839, by the Society. 



Proceedings of the Astronomical Society, vol. 4, No. 24, by the Society. 



English and Chinese Vocabulary, by R. Morrison, D.D. by Messrs. 



Thacker $ Co. 



A brief account of the Chronometer, with remarks on those furnished by Parkin- 

 son and Frodsham to the expeditions of Capts. Ross, Parry, Sabine, King, 

 Lyon, Foster, and other distinguished navigators by Mr. Frodsham. 



Madras Journal, Nos. 21, 22, 23 and 24 by the Madras Library and Auxiliary 



Royal Asiatic Society. 

 The following was received from the Booksellers : — 



Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia, Biography, Literary and Scientific men, vol. 2. 



Literary and Physical. 



Major J. R. Ouseley forwarded a short notice of the process of washing for the 

 gold dust and diamonds at Heera Khoond, with specimens of the gold dust. 



