614 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [July, 



Transactions of the Society of Arts, Vol. LI. Part 1 ,— presented by M. Aikinfor the 

 Society. 



Memoirs of the Astronomical Society of London, Vol. IX. — presented by the Society. 



A Companion to Johnson's Dictionary, English and Bengali, — by J. Mendies, 

 1828 — presented by the author. 



Dictionary in English, Bengali, and Manipuri, by Captain Gordon, Political 

 Agent at Manipur — presented by the author through Mr. Trevelyan. 



The characters of Theophrastus, translated into Armenian, Venice, 1830 — presented 

 by J oh. Avdall. 



The Quarterly Journal of Medical and Physical Society, No. III. — ly the Editors, 

 Professors Goodeve and O' Shaughnessy . 



Meteorological Register for June, 1837 — by the Serveyor General. 



Lardner's Cyclopedia, Greece, vol. 4, from the booksellers. 



, Southey's Admirals, vol. 4. 



Reponse de M. de Paravey sur 1' antiquity Chinoise, a paper addressed under enve- 

 lope to the President — by the author. 



Adverting to the edition of the Miscellaneous Essays of the late Mr. H. T. Cole- 

 brooke announced among the presentations to the library this evening, Mr. J. T. 

 Pearson called to the attention of the meeting that although it was impossible 

 now to return thanks to the illustrious author for what might be called his 

 dying bequest to literature, the Society might justly place on record some appropri- 

 ate acknowledgment of its great obligations to this eminent orientalist, and some 

 expression of its regret at the termination of his honorable and useful career. He 

 thought it would be an excellent plan to follow the example of the institute at 

 Paris, in its eulogistic memoirs on the death of eminent members— such as those 

 pronounced by the Baron Cuvier on so many occasions. 



The meeting concurring in Dr. Pearson's proposition which was seconded by 

 Mr. Hare, and the Vice-President, Dr. Mill, having acceded to the request of the 

 meeting to embody in their present resolution an abstract of the services rendered by 

 Mr. Colebrooke to the Society, and to Asiatic literature in general, — it was ac- 

 cordingly 



Resolved unanimously, that the Asiatic Society cannot place on its 

 shelves this last donation from Henry Thomas Colebrooke, so long one 

 of its most distinguished members, without recording a tribute of affection 

 for his memory, of admiration for his great talents, and regret for the 

 loss sustained by oriental literature through his lamented death. 



" Mr. Colebrooke was proposed as a member of this Society in the year 

 1792, and his first essay "onthe duties of a faithful Hindu widow" was read 

 in the last season of Sir William Jones' occupation of the chair, in April 

 1794. Though on an insulated subject only, which various circumstances 

 however render deeply interesting, this short essay well exemplifies the 

 manner in which he exhausts every subject of that nature that he under- 

 takes : and is a happy prelude to that series of splendid contributions to 

 the society, which in profundity of acquaintance with all subjects of In- 

 dian literature and science, — in the union of the most extensive erudition 

 with the most chastened judgment, and an accurate scientific acquaintance 

 with the several subjects which his essays collaterally embrace, are unsur- 

 passed by those of any other contributor to our Researches, — or by any 

 who, either before or since, have pursued the same unbeaten paths of lite- 

 rature. 



His next essay was the "enumeration of Indian classes," or (as we com- 

 monly term them) castes — in the 5th volume of the Researches ; an able 

 and excellent elucidation of a subject of no common interest. And this, 

 after some less important contributions, was followed by the essays on the 



