xxviji Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [March, 1844. 



I have recommended a gentleman in this line of business, who left Calcutta a short 

 time ago on the Hindostan, to take home a quantity of these stones for trial, and I have 

 also ordered a quantity of them to be sent to England. 



, H. PlDDINGTON. 



With reference to the suggestion of the Curator on the subject of Captain Shortrede's 

 Lithographic Stones, the Secretary was requested to address Government on the part 

 of the Society to that effect. 



For all the foregoing presentations and communications the best thanks 

 of the Society was voted. 



