250 Asiatic Society. [No. 135. 



It was ordered — That the letter be signed by the Acting Secretary on 

 the part of the Society, as had been done in former cases, (Presidents Cole- 

 brooke and Harrington,) and agreed upon, that a deputation consisting 

 of the Committee of Papers, and of such members as might please to at- 

 tend, should meet at the Rooms, at ten o'clock the following morning, for 

 the purpose of waiting on the Honourable Mr. Prinsep with the letter, 

 and from thence proceed to Government House, to notify to the Honour- 

 able Mr. Bird, his election as President. 



The following list of Books presented and purchased was read : — 



Library. 



Books received for the Meeting of the Asiatic Society, on the 3rd March, 1843. 



The Calcutta Christian Observer, March, 1843, new series, vol. iv. 

 No. 39. — Presented by the Editor. 



Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, No. 4, 

 April, 1842. 



Journal des Savans. Paris, Aout, 1842. 



Journal Asiatique, 3me serie. Paris. Avril, Mai, Juin, 1842, Nos. 73, 74, 

 and 75, tome xiii. — Presented by the Society. 



Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 1841-42, vol. ii, 

 Nos. 18 to 22. 



Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, new series. Phila- 

 delphia, 1841, vol. viii, part i. — Presented by the Society. 



The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Jour- 

 nal of Science, 3rd series. London, September, 1842, vol. xxi, No. 

 137. 



Report of a Committee of the British Association for the advancement 

 of Science, pamphlet. — Presented by the Society. 



Meteorological Register kept at the Surveyor General's Office, Calcutta, 

 for the month of January, 1843. — From the Surveyor General's Office. 



Fonceux, Discours prononce a l'ouverture du cours de Langue et de 

 Literature Tibetaine, pres la Bibliotheque Royale. Paris, 1842, pamph- 

 let. — Presented by the Author. 



Fonceux, (Le sage et le fou.) Extrait du Kan — Jour. Paris, 1842. 

 pamphlet. — Presented by the Editor. 



Julien, Exerciees pratiques d'Analyse de Syntaxe et de Lexicographic 

 Chinoise. Paris, 1842, 8vo. 



Darwin's Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History 

 of the various countries visited by H. M. S. Beagle. London, 1839, 

 8vo. — Purchased. 



Offrande au Dieu de L'Univers, par A. Fabius. Lyon, 1842, pamphlet. 



The Oriental Christian Spectator, 2nd series. Bombay, August, 1842, 

 vol. iii, No. 8. — Presented by the Editor. 



Roylc on the Production of Isinglass along the Coasts of India, with 

 a Notice of its Fisheries. London, 1842, pamphlets, two copies. Pre- 

 sented by the Author. 



