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March. — ' Clear' means a cloudless sky not aclear atmosphere During the greater 

 part of this month there has been a thick haze from 11 a.m. till sunset. In ordi- 

 nary seasons this does not commence before the month of May, but this year we 

 have not our usual frequent spring showers. 



April. — The Barometrical range between 10 and 4 is .115. The Thermometrical 

 range 1 0°. Mean depression of wet bulb, 15.5. 



This is a most unusually dry reason. The frequent spring showers peculiar to 

 this climate have been altogether wanting this season. A heavy haze 25 days 

 out. of the 30. 



May.— The hottest, and driest month of May within the recollection of the oldest 

 inhabitants. The observations made in the northern end of a western open verandah : 

 mean barometrical range for the day, 98; do. thermometrical 9° ; average depression 

 of wet bulb 15°. 



June. — From the 1st to the 20th the weather was hotter and drier than has ever 

 before been recollected in Cathmandu. Mean temperature from 1st to 16th 77° at 10 

 a. m. ; do. do. at 4 p. m. 85°. Mean temp, from 21st to 30th at 10 a. m. 73°; do. 

 do. at 4 P. m. 77°. 



VIII. — Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 



Wednesday Evening, 2nd August, 1837. 



The Rev. W. H. Mill, D. D., Vice-President, in the chair. 



Rustomjee Cowasjee, Esq., Baboo Suttchurn Ghosal, and Captain 

 Bogle, were elected members of the Society. 



Dr. G, G. Spilsbury and Major J. R. Ouseley were proposed by the 

 Secretary, seconded by Mr. Cracroft. 



Dr. G. McPherson, Berhampore, proposed by Capt. Pemberton, se- 

 conded by Col. Macleod. 



Letters from Messrs J. Muir and G. W. Bacon, acknowledged their 

 election. 



Letter from the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, and from 

 the Society of Arts, acknowledged receipt of the 20th vol. of Asiatic 

 Researches. 



The Secretary read correspondence with Government pursuant to the 

 resolution of last meeting regarding the museum. 



To H. T. Prinsep, Esq. 

 + Secretary to Government, General "Department. 



Sir, 



I am directed by the Asiatic Society to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, 

 dated the 28th ultimo, to the address of their President conveying the reply of the 

 Right Honorable the Governor General of India in Council to the Society's represen- 

 tation on the subject of their museum of antiquities and natural history. 



The Society feel that they have every reason to be highly flattered with the con- 

 descension and consideration extended to their address by the members of govern- 

 ment ; and although a reference to the Honorable the Court of Directors has been 

 deemed indispensable before finally determining on the adoption of the Society's 

 proposition for the formation of a national museum at the cost of the state, still 

 they entertain the most sanguine assurance of a favorable issue under the en- 

 couragement and recommendation with which His Lordship in Council has been 

 pleased to promise that the reference home shall be accompanied. 



On the strength of this confident expectation a very full meeting of the Society 

 held, on the 5th instant, came to the resolution that it would be unadvisable at 

 such a juncture to break up the establishment, and abandon the incipient museum 

 upon which they had for two years devoted so considerable a portion of their income, 

 and thus perhaps have to recommence their collections a year hence, should the 

 Honorable Court acquiesce in the proposed measure. 



It was consequently resolved that a second respectful application should be submit- 

 ted to the Right Honorable the Governor General in Council in immediate connection 

 with their former address to inquire : — 



Whether, in order to maintain the Society's Museum in its present state of effi- 

 ciency, pending the reference on the subject of its extension and conversion into a 



