1843.] Asiatic Society. 131 



1842, 4eme. Annee, ler. trimestre. Presented by the Academie Koyale de Bor- 

 deaux. 



Meteorological Register for December, 1842, from the Surveyor General's Office. 



A Chinese Wood Engraving and Description of the Porcelain Tower of Nankin. 

 Presented by J. H. Stocqueler, Esq. 



Read the following letter, received through the Private Secretary to the 

 Right Honourable the Governor General : — 



To the Secretary of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta. 



Washington, 1st June, 1842. 



Dear Sir, — I have the honor to transmit to you copies of the constitution, and list 

 of Members, of the National Institution for the promotion of Science lately established 

 in this city, together with the first and second Bulletins of its Proceedings, and to re- 

 quest you to lay them before your Society, that its Members may become acquainted 

 with the existence and objects of the National Institution, with a view to future 

 correspondence. I have the honor to be with great respect, 



Approved. Your most obedt. Servant, 



J. R. Poinsett, Francis Markoe, Jun. 



President National Institution. Corresponding Secretary. 



To the Secretary of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta. 



Office of American and Foreign Agency, 

 New York, June 9, 1842. 

 Sir, — With reference to my respects of the 6th April ultimo, informing you of the 

 enrolment of your Society among the Correspondents of the National Institution, up- 

 on my proposal, I have now the honor to transmit you the annexed letter of the Corres- 

 ponding Secretary thereof of the 1st instant, and am, with great respect, Sir, 



Your most obedt. Servant, 

 Aaron H. Palmer, 

 Corresponding Member of the National Institution. 



Ordered. — That upon receipt of the papers referred to, the whole be duly 

 acknowledged, with expression of the Society's desire to co-operate with 

 the National Institution of Washington. 



Read the following letter received through Mr. Gladstone of Messrs. 

 Gillanders and Co. : — 



Monsieur, Bordeaux, le 30 Juillet 1842. 



L' Academie Royale de Bordeaux a re^uen 1839, dela Societe Asiatique de Calcut- 

 ta, 24 cahiers comprenant le recueil de les travaux pendant les annees 1836-1837; 

 en meme temps elle rec,ut 4 volumes publies par la meme Societe sur la recherche des 

 Antiquites, des Arts, des Sciences, et de la Litterature de PAsie. 



Elle a cherche plusieurs fois l'occsion de vous adresser l'expression de sa gratitude 

 pour un don aussi precieux et aussi de vous faire parvenir le recueil des actes qu'elle 

 publie regulierement depuis plusieurs annees; comme elle n'arien requ de la Societe 

 Asiatique depuis 1839, elle a lieu de craindre que ses envois n'aient pas etes fidele- 

 ment remis. 



