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Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 



(Wednesday Evening, 5th July 1843. ) 



The regular monthly meeting was held on Wednesday evening the 5th 

 July, and by invitation from the Honorable the President, the Society 

 assembled at Government House, its own premises being under repair. 



The Honorable the President was in the chair. 



J. W. Fulton, Esq. Barrister at Law, was ballotted for and declared 

 duly elected ; the usual communication was ordered to be made to him. 



The following Books presented and purchased were on the table : — 



Books received for the Meeting of the Asiatic Society, on the 5th July, 1843. 



The Calcutta Christian Observer, July 1843. New Series, vol. iv. No. 43. Pre- 

 sented by the Editor. 



The Oriental Christian Spectator. Bombay, June 1843, vol. iv. No. 6. Second Se- 

 ries. Presented by the Editor. 



Jameson's Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal. Edinburgh, 1842, vol. xxxii. No. 63. 

 (Purchased to complete the vols.) 



Proceedings of the Geological Society of London, vol. iii. part ii. Nos. 89 and 90. 

 Presented by the Society. 



Journal des Savants, Octobre, 1842, Paris. Presented. 



The Calcutta Literary Gleaner, July 1843, vol. ii. No. 5. Presented by the Editor. 



The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, February and May. London 1843, 

 vol. ii. Nos. 68 and 71. Purchased. 



Yarrell's History of British Birds. London 1482, parts 34, 35, 36. 



Bellefond's Memoire sur le Lac Moeris, publie par la Societe Egyptienne. Alexan- 

 drie, 1843. Presented by C. B. Greenlaw, Esq. on the part of A. S. Walne, Esq. 

 of the Egyptian Society of Cairo. 



Niebuhr's History of Rome. London, 1842, vol iii. Purchased. 



Antiquitates Americanae. Edidit Societas Regia Antiquarium Septentrionalium. 

 Studio et Opera C. C. Rafn. Hafnia?, 1837. 



Chinese Drawing of the Porcelain Tower at Nankin, with description. Presented by 

 J. McCann, Esq. 



History of Hyder Naik, Nuwab of the Carnatic, published by the Oriental Translation 

 Society, as translated from an Original MS. of Meer Hussun Ali Khan Krinnani, 

 by Col. W. Miles. From the Society. 



The Secretary reported as follows : — ■ 



That the books sanctioned to be sent to Mr. Kdnig, bookseller of Bonn, 

 in exchange for the publications forwarded by him, were in course of ship- 

 ment. 



That the collected amount of the subscriptions for the Kit-Cat Por- 

 traits of the Honorable Sir Edward Ryan, and the Honorable H. T. 

 Prinsep, Esq. stood as follows '— 



