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

 Wednesday Evening, the 1th August, 1844. 



The usual Monthly Meeting took place on Wednesday evening, the 7th 

 August, at 8£ p. m. The Honorable the President in the Chair. 



C. F. Buckland, Esq., C. S. was elected a Member of the Society, and the 

 usual communication was ordered to be made to him. 



New Member, Captain Mackenzie, B. N. I. 



Proposed by the Honorable Sir H. T. Maddock, seconded by the Honor- 

 able the President. 



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



Books received for the Meeting, on the 7th August, 1844. 



1. The Meteorological Register for January 1844. From the Surveyor General's 

 Office. 



2. Transactions of the Society of Arts, Vol. L1V. for 1814. — Presented by the 

 Editor. 



3. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History for 1844, Nos. 156, 157 and 158. — 

 Purchased. 



4. The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine, 3d series, Nos. 

 156, 157 and 158.— Presented by the Editor. 



5. The Calcutta Christian Observer, for June and August, 1844.— Presented by the 

 Editor. 



6. Journal Asiatique, ou Recueil de Memoires 1844, No. 9. — Presented by the 

 Editor. 



7. The Oriental Christian Spectator, July 1844. — Presented by the Editor. 



8. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, two Nos. Vol. II, January 

 and February 1844. — Presented by the Editor. 



9. The Palms of British India, from the Calcutta Journal of Natural History. — 

 Presented by Dr. W. Griffith. 



10. The Athenaeum for May 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th and June 1st 1844, from the Editor. 



11. The Singapore Tide Register in six sheets. — From Government. 



12. A general Catalogue of the Fixed Stars, from Observations made at Madras in 

 the years 1830, 1843.— From Government. 



13. Meteorological Register kept at the Honorable Company's Observatory Madras. 

 —Presented by Government. 



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