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



The stated monthly meeting was held on Wednesday evening, the 6th 

 November. 



Charles Huffnagle, Esq. the senior member of the Committee of Papers, 

 present, in the chair. 



It was stated to the meeting by the Secretary that, as arranged at the 

 last meeting, a deputation from the Society had waited on the Honourable 

 the Governor General to announce to him his election as President. 



The deputation consisted of the Honourable Sir John Grant and Sir 

 Henry Seton, Vice-Presidents, the' members of the Committee of Papers, 

 the Secretary, and a number of members of the Society. Sir John Grant, 

 Vice-President, informed the R. H. the Governor General of his elec- 

 tion, observing, that the honorable post of our President had been filled 

 by certain of his predecessors in the Viceroyalty of India, and that the So- 

 ciety feel assured that it would be grateful to a public man so deeply in- 

 terested as was our present Governor General in the prosperity of this 

 country, to find himself in a position to foster and superintend the pro- 

 ceedings of a Society, the object of which had long been the elucidation 

 of its resources, and the better knowledge of its history, natural productions, 

 literature, and antiquities. 



The R. H. the Governor General replied : That he received the intimation 

 of his election with feelings of gratification ; that the Society was not mis- 

 taken in concluding that he was warmly interested in its proceedings, and 

 that he accepted, with the expression of his thanks, the office of its Presi- 

 dent. He added, that the great press of business which his public duties 

 necessarily induced, must he feared deprive him of the power of attend- 

 ing to his presidential functions with that degree of attention which he 

 would otherwise have desired to give to them ; but that in so far as was 

 possible to him, he would personally superintend the labours of the Society, 



