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entreprise sous vos auspices, et qui s'accomplira, je n'en doute point, d'une mai- 

 nere tout-a-fait satisfaisante. 



Agi£ez, Monsieur, l'assurance de ma consideration trdse distingu^e ; 

 Le Ministre de 1' Instruction publique, Guizot. 



Mr. James Prinsep, S£cr£taire de la Soci^te Asiatique de Calcutta. 



The Secretary suggested that although he appeared to be entrusted personally 

 with this important commission he thought it would be on all accounts safer to 

 enter the correspondence on the Society's books, and to place the money on their 

 general account to the credit of the French Government, in case of any accident 

 to himself. He had already taken measures for the furtherance of the minis- 

 ter's views. 



Read, extract of letter from Major Trover, on the same subject. 



Capt. Troyer, forwarded account sale of oriental works on the part of the 

 Paris Society, amounting to 1173/. and 8 cts. net. 



The first 10 livraisons of the work of the late M. Ja'cquemont, are now 

 completed. The whole will consist of 50 livraisons folio, costing 400 francs. 

 No mention is made of his having received charge of the Society's copy. 



Library. 



The following books were presented. 



Madras Journal of Literature and Science, No. 16, for July 1837 — 

 by the Editor, Dr. Cole. 



Uber die Kawi— Sprache auf der Jnsel Java nebst einer Einleitung 

 liber die Verschiedenheit des menschlichan Sprachbaues Von Wilhem 

 Von Humboldt, Berlin 1836. vol. I.— presented on the part of his brother 

 the late Baron, by Mr. Alexander de Humboldt. 



Jonpur nameh and Wakiat Jehangiri — copied from MS. lent by Capt. A. 

 Cunningham, at an expence of 12 rupees. 



Meteorological Registers for June and July 1837—% the Surveyor 

 General. 



The following were received from the Oriental Translation Fund. 



The History of the Afghans translated from the Persian by Bernhard Dorn, 

 Ph. D. For. M. A. R. A. S. M. T. C. 



Travels of Macarius, vol. II. translated by F. C. Belfour, A. M. Oxon, 

 M. R. A. S. 



The Chronicles of Rabbi Joseph Ben Joshua Ben Meir the Sphardi by 



C. H. F. BlALLOBLOTYKY, VOl. II. — 1836. 



Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia. — Foreign Statesmen, vol. IV. — from the Book- 

 tellers. 



Mr. Avdall brought for the inspection of the meeting a very valuable 

 illuminated Armenian manuscript of the New Testament on parchment, 

 written in the year (Arm. Era 741) or A. D. 1292, under the Armenian 

 king Hethu'm. 



It was written at Ozopi by a monk named Simeon, sold for 3,000 deniers to 

 Mathews a priest, and afterwards in A. D. 1501 to Hazar Beg for 20,000 deniers. 



Nawab Tuhawur Jung addressed a letter to the Society with a manu- 

 script of the SharJya ul Islam, the text book of Mahommedan law accord- 

 ing tothe Sheea sect, recommending that it should be printed under the 

 Society's auspices and offering to defray one-half of the expences. Refer- 

 red to the Committee of papers. 



Colonel H. Burney, presented for the Society's Library, copy of a prac- 

 tical work on ordinary diseases and medicines compiled and translated into 

 Burmese by a Catholic Missionary and lithographed by himself for gra- 

 tuitous circulation among the people at Ava. 



By the same opportunity Col. Burney sent up the manuscript of Mr. 

 Lane's Burmese Dictionary, which has immediately been placed in the 

 printer's hands. 



Committees. 



Dr. Stewart, Secretary of the Statistical Committee reported the re- 

 sult of two applications to the Government of Bengal, one for the privilege 

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