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Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 

 (Friday Evening, Idth February 1843J 



The monthly meeting of the Society was held on Friday evening, the 

 10th instant, the Honorable the President in the Chair. 



The following gentlemen proposed at the last meeting, were ballotted for 

 and duly elected : — 



The Rev. Chas. Irvine, of St. Xavier's College. 



Lieut. Baird Smith, B. E. 



Baboo Cossinath Bhose. 



Joseph St. Pourcain, Esq. Chandernagore. 



The usual communication was ordered to be made to them. 



The following Members were proposed : Professor Mohl, Secretary of the 

 Asiatic Society of Paris, proposed as an Honorary Member by H. Torrens, 

 Esq. and seconded by R. Houston, Esq. It was referred, as in like cases, to 

 the Committee of Papers, to report on the propriety of conferring this 

 distinction. 



Dr. Tranter, Malwa Contingent, proposed by the Honorable the Presi- 

 dent, seconded by Mr. Masters. 



The Acting Secretary reported to the meeting that he had enquired as 

 to the state of the account of the transcription of the Veds,* as requested 

 by Major Troyer's letter, and that it appeared by reference to the Journal, 

 vol. VIII. page 531, that the transaction was then taken over from Mr. 

 James Prinsep's executor, and that a balance was due to the Society of 

 rupees 233: 7: 15, from the French Government, which would now be 

 claimed. Instructions had been sent to Benares to Judoonath Pundit, 

 who formerly conducted the transcription, requesting him to continue it. 



It farther appeared, as to the copies of the 4th Vol. of the Mahabarata, 

 that a box containing 56 copies of it, with 56 copies of the Index, had 

 been sent from the rooms in April 1840, and by an Office Memorandum, 

 that the case had been shipped on the 9th September 1 840, by Government 

 on the ship Larkins, with a letter from Mr. Torrens ; but no acknowledgment 

 of the arrival of the case had been received from Europe. The Acting 

 Secretary stated, that he had written full particulars of the above to 

 Major Troyer. 



The Acting Secretary stated, that under the orders of the President, a 

 box containing the following works, in all 13 volumes, had been sent to His 

 Highness the Pacha of Egypt from the Society by Dr. Wise, who had sailed 

 on the India this morning. No letter could accompany the donation, be- 



* Proceedings for January, 1843. 



