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and being wholly unprepared for the honour and kindness lavished on me at the 

 special meeting of Tuesday last, I found myself quite unable to do justice to those 

 sentiments of pride and pleasure with which the Hon'ble the President's proposal, and 

 the cordial reception it met with from the meeting, inspired me. 



I cannot now hope to recover the lost opportunity of expressing my sentiments, but 

 lest I should possibly seem wanting in a due sense of the distinction proposed to be 

 conferred upon me, I beg leave to say, that every circumstance of the meeting of 

 Tuesday last, is engraved upon my heart ; that I contemplate the idea of my bust 

 being placed in the Society's Hall as a proof of the regard and esteem of those who 

 have known me so long, with inexpressible delight ; and that so long as I live, the 

 welfare of the Society will ever be the objects of my warmest wishes, and so far as 

 may be, of my best endeavours. 



1 have the honor to be, Sir, 

 Your most obedient servant, 



B. H. Hodgson, 



Member, Asiatic Society. 



Read the following list of Books presented and purchased during the 

 last month : — 



Books received for the Meeting of the Asiatic Society, on the \st of March, 1844. 



Journal of the Bombay Branch Royal Asiatic Society, No. VI. October, 1843.— Pre- 

 sented by the Society. 



Meteorological Register kept at the Surveyor General's Office, Calcutta, for the 

 month of January, 1844. — From Government. 



Naturalist's Library, Ichthyology, Vol. VI. British Fishes.— Purchased. 



Naturalist's Library, Ornithology, Vol. XIV. British Birds.— Ditto. 



The Calcutta Christian Observer, March, 1844. — Presented by the Editors. 



The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, No. 81, January 1844. — Purchased. 



Read the following copy of a letter to be dispatched to Messrs. W. and 

 H. Allen by the next Steamer. 



Messrs. Allen and Co. — Special. 



Dear Sirs, — I am charged to press upon your immediate attention the following 

 commission. 



A bust of Mr. Brian Haughton Hodgson, B. C. S., having been voted by the Asia- 

 tic Society of Bengal, and that gentleman having left this country in the ship Hard- 

 wicke on the 7th instant, you are requested to place yourselves on receipt of this, 

 in communication with Mr. Baily, Mr. Weekes, or Mr. Westmacott, the sculptors, or 

 failing them, with the next eminent artist in sculpture, for the purpose of engaging his 

 services for the work above noted. Having come to an understanding with the artist, 

 I am charged by the Honorable the President and Members to request, that you will 

 wait upon Mr. Hodgson on his arrival in England, (learning his address at Messrs. 

 Coutts and Co.) and learn his wishes as to sittings for the bust. 



