920 Asiatic Society. [No. 142. 



This peculiarly interesting document was transferred to the Journal for 

 publication, and the Sub-Secretary stated, that he had had a copy prepared 

 for forwarding to Lieut. Baird Smith, who has so zealously taken up this 

 branch of research. 



Read the following letter from G. Buist, Esq. in charge of the Hon'ble 

 Company's Observatory at Bombay : — 



H. Torrens, Esq. Secretary to the Asiatic Society. 



Dear Sir, — I duly received, through the Bombay Government, a copy of your application to be 

 supplied with copy of the Registers of the Bombay Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory at 

 present temporarily under my charge. 



I should have complied immediately with your request, and forwarded a monthly number of our 

 observations so far as they extend, that is, from 1st September 1843, without delay, but that as we 

 were on the eve of completing the year, I have thought it better to def^: for a few weeks, when the 

 volume will be sent to you. 



I have taken the liberty of explaining this to you for the information of the Society, lest you 

 should suppose that the delay had arisen from any neglect or inattention. 



I have forwarded by the Ship Samuel Boddington, to the address of Mr. Piddington, a copy of a 

 chart for the use of the Asiatic Society of the readings of nine Barometers observed simultaneously 

 for 24 hours, projected on curves— the memoir explanatory of this is now nearly ready, and will 

 be sent by post. 



I shall at all times have the greatest gratification of forwarding for the use of your Society, 

 any documents connected with the Observatory they may desire to possess. 



I have the honor to be, &c. 

 Bombay, Qth September, 1843. Geo. Buist. 



Read a letter from Capt. Thos. Hutton, B. N. I. offering for sale to the 

 Society, a large collection of above 1600 specimens of Natural History 

 from Affghanisthan and the Hills. The offer was declined, the Society 

 already possessing a large proportion of the specimens. 



Read extract from a letter from Capt Boileau, Magnetic Observatory, 

 desiring to know whether the Society would be willing to take up the pub- 

 lication of his Hygrometric Tables. 



It was resolved, that the Society do so. 



Read the following extract of a letter from Lieutenant Colonel Reid, 

 R. E. Governor of Bermuda, and author of the well known work on the 

 Law of Storms, addressed to the Sub-Secretary, affording a gratifying 

 proof of the interest taken in that branch of research at home, and of the 

 advantage which the early publication of the labours of scientific men 

 through the Society's Journal affords them. 



My dear Sir, — I have received all your six Memoirs, and I believe all your let- 

 ters, and I should have answered your last one sooner, but for the importance I attached 

 to the Memoir on the Storms of the China Seas. I have read it with great attention, 

 and the more I considered it, the more I saw you had bestowed great pains upon it. 

 As I went on reading, 1 drew a diagram on the margin for each storm, such as a sea- 

 man would have to draw, had he no data but his own observations in the midst of a 



