xxx Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [April, 1844. 



The Yacna of the Parsis in the Zend language, but Gujarati character, with a Gujarat 



translation, paraphrase and comment, by the late Framji Aspandearji. From the 



Bombay Branch Royal Asiatic Society. 

 The Bispard of the Parsis in the Zend language, but Gujarati character, with a Guja- 

 rati translation, paraphrase and comment, by the late Framji Aspandearji. From the 



Bombay Branch Royal Asiatic Society. 

 Notice Historique sur la Vie et les Ouvrages de M. le Major Rennell, par M. le Baron 



Walckenaer. From the Author. 

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



month of February 1844. From the Surveyor General's Office. 

 Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, vol. xv, part in. From the Society. 

 Journal des Savants. Paris, Julliet et Aout 1843. Purchased. 

 The History of the Mohammedan Dynasties in Spain, translated by Pascal de Gay- 



angos, vol. u. Printed for the Asiatic Society by the Oriental Translation 



Fund. 

 Les Sultans Mamlouks de Makrize, tome n, lib i. Printed for the Asiatic Society 



by the Oriental Translation Fund. 

 The Calcutta Christian Observer, April 1844. New series, vol. v. No. 52. Presented 



by the Editors. 

 Pritchard's Natural History of Man. London, 1843. Purchased. 

 Researches into the Physical History of Mankind, by J. C. Prichard, vols, i, n, in, 



Purchased. 

 Memoires de laSociete Royale des Antiquaires du Nord, 1840-43, Section Asiatique. 



Copenhagen, 1843. 



Read the following letter from the Society's London Agents, Messrs. 

 Allen and Co. : — 



H. Torrens, Esq. Secretary to the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 



Sir, — We have the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 17th 

 November last, enclosing a bill of lading for six cases of books, which are to be for- 

 warded as addressed, and we are requested to transmit receipts for the same to the So- 

 ciety. We shall have much pleasure in attending to your instructions. We doubt 

 if we shall be able to obtain receipts for all the cases, but if we can assure the Society 

 that they are duly delivered, we conclude that will be quite satisfactory. 



London, January 30, 1844. 



W. H. Allen and Co. 



Read the following correspondence with reference to the transfer of the 

 Buchanan MSS. and Drawings from the Botanic Garden to the Library of 

 the Society : — 



The Secretary to the Government of Bengal, Home Department. 

 Sir,— I am instructed on the part of the Asiatic Society of Bengal to beg, that you 

 will submit to the Honorable the Deputy Governor of Bengal, the respectful request 



