1108 Asiatic Society. [No. 144. 



Corresponding Members. 

 Mons. C. Alex. Challaye, late French Consul in China. 

 Mons. M. H. E. de Chonski, Secretary of the Consulate in China. 

 And the following new Member: — 



R. Macdonald Stephenson, Esq. was proposed hy Col. Forbes, and seconded 

 by H. Torrens, Esq. 



The Secretary reported to the Meeting, that the reprint of Lieut, (now Major) 

 Leech's Grammar and Vocabulary of the Beloochee and Punjabee languages, wbich 

 had been requested by the Right Hon'ble the Governor General, was completed, 

 and the Government copies sent into the Foreign Secretary's Office. Spare copies 

 had also been struck off for the Society, and were now on the table. 



Also, that the Library contained only the Philosophical Transactions up to the 

 year 1837, although it appeared from a printed list in the work that the Asiatic 

 Society of Bengal, was one of the public bodies with which the Royal Society 

 exchanged Transactions. He therefore requested to be authorized to write to the 

 Royal Society on the subject ; which was agreed to. 



The Vice President introduced to the Meeting, Messrs. C. Alex. Challaye, late 

 French Consul in China, and H. E. de Chonski, Secretary to the French Con- 

 sulate at Canton, as Members of the Societe Asiatique de Paris, and themselves 

 Orientalists of much merit. These gentlemen were now on their way to Europe, 

 and he proposed from the chair, that they should be elected Corresponding Mem- 

 bers of the Society ; which was unanimously carried. 



Mons. Challaye presented to the Society a copy of the work of the Rev.Pere Cal- 

 lery, Missionaire Apostolique in China, entitled " Systema Phoneticum Scripturae 

 Sinicae," as also two specimen numbers, in French and English, of his proposed 

 translation of the great Chinese Encyclopedic Dictionary of Kang-hi, known hitherto 

 to Europeans only through the translation of its abridgement, entitled Kang-hi-tze- 

 tien, by Dr. Morrison. For the proposed translation of the entire Encyclopedia by M. 

 Callery, the patronage of the Society was requested. 



The Vice President after detailing at some length the indefatigable labours of the 

 Rev. M. Callery, in the publication of his first work, the Systema Phoneticum, which 

 was mostly performed, down to the meanest details, by his own hands, rendering it 

 thus also a monument of the untiring energy of a man of genius, referred to the spe- 

 cimens of the new work on the table as one in the highest degree worthy of the 



