Proceedings of the Asiatic Society for the month of June, 1844. 

 Wednesday Evening, the 5th June, 1844. 

 The Monthly Meeting of the Society was held at the usual hour on 

 Wednesday evening, the 5th June, H. Torrens, Esq. Vice President in 

 the chair. 



The following list of books presented and purchased, was read : — 



Books for the Meeting of the Asiatic Society, June 5, 1844. 



1. Meteorological Register for the month of April 184*, from the Surveyor 

 General's Office. 



2. The Oriental Christian Spectator for May 1844, No. 5, 2nd series. — Presented 

 by the Editors. 



3. Journal of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India, Vol, II, No. XI, 

 1844. — Presented by the Society. 



4. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Vol. XII, No. 76 for 1843.— Pur- 

 chased. 



5. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Nos. 30, 31, 

 32 and 33- — Presented by the Society. 



6. The Athenaeum, for March 16th and 23rd, 1843. — In exchange for the 

 Society's Journal. 



7. Report of the Secretary of the Navy U. S. — Presented by M. R. Johnstone. 



8. Magnetic Observations from the Observatory of Bombay. — Presented by Go- 

 vernment. 



9. Goodwyn's Memoir on Wrought Iron Roofing, with a Vol. of Plates.— Present- 

 ed by the Author. 



10. Brief Grammatical Notice of the Siamese Language, with an Appendix, by T. 

 Taylor Jones. — Presented by the Author. 



11. Notes on the Marine Glue, by Alfred Jeffries. — Presented by Mr. J. De 

 Gamier. 



12. L. Asie Centrale ; Recherches sur les chaines de Montagnes et sur la Clima- 

 tologie, Vols. 1, 2, and 3, par A. de Humboldt.— Presented by the Author. 



13. Pearl Fisheries of Ceylon, by J. Stewart.— Presented by C. B.Greenlaw, 

 Esq. in the name of the Author. 



14. Napier's Peninsular War, Vols. 3, 4, 5, and 6.— Purchased. 



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