cxii Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [Oct. 1844. 



Thomson on Heat and Electricity ; O'Shaughnessy's Manual of Chemis- 

 try ; O'Shaughnessy's Manual of Electricity ; but that he could not find 

 any work treating specially of Comets ; and that with respect to a work 

 on Hindu Astronomy, it was not stated if it was a European work on that 

 subject or a Native one which was desired, and that he should communi- 

 cate with Captain Macleod on the subject. The specimens had not yet 

 been examined. He subsequently learned, that Messrs. Ostell and Co. had 

 forwarded Bentley's Hindu Astronomy. 



Read the following note from Captain Bigge, Assistant Commissioner in 

 Assam, accompanying the presentation to which it refers : — 



Tin Coins from Pahang on E. coast of Malay Peninsula, North from Singapore; 

 16 go to the dollar; and these were received from a fisherman off the mouth of the river, 

 in change on a purchase offish. To coin similar monies is severely punished by mu- 

 tilation and death. The smaller coin is the Dutch doit from Batavia. J. B. 



Read the following reports from the Librarian : — 



To H. Torrens, Esq., Secretary Asiatic Society. 



Sib,— I have the honour, by your direction, to report respecting the communication 

 on the part of our Society with the Royal Irish Academy, The Royal Irish Academy, 

 as appears from our MSS. Proceedings, is one of those eight Institutions, (viz. the 

 Royal Society of London, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Royal Irish Academy, 

 Society of Antiquarians of London, Society of Antiquarians of Edinburgh, the 

 Linnsean Society, American Philosophical Society, American Academy of Arts and 

 Sciences) with which the Asiatic Society, March 1800, first opened an intercourse by 

 sending them their Researches, and regularly transmitting them, whenever a new 

 volume of the Researches was published. The Royal Irish Academy presented on 

 their part, March 1806, a set of their Transactions, which presentation was, however, 

 not repeated until 1837, from which time they regularly sent their periodical publica- 

 tions to the Society; viz. its Transactions from vol. 17 to 19, pt. 2d, (Vide Journal 

 Asiatic Society, Oct. 1837, Nov. 1839 and 1841, No. 116,) while 1 do not find in our 

 Proceedings that the Society since 1837 has, by way of return, forwarded any of its 

 publications to the Royal Irish Academy. 



I avail myself of this opportunity to forward you a list of the learned institutions 

 which have been in communication with our Society, by sending it their publications, 

 so far as I have been able to ascertain this from our Proceedings. 



• I have the honour to be, Sir, 



'Id October, 1844. Your most obedient servant, 



E, Roer. 



