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aught but strength ; the material is the rough wrought stone found on 

 the spot, which is mostly too hard to admit of being better worked. 

 The building, on the roof of which is the pillar, appears to have been 

 a " bdrahdari ;" it is square and three stories high, all vaulted: it 

 stands at the bottom of a court-yard close to the ramparts of the river 

 face. There are buildings near, which may have been appropriated to 

 a menagerie, but that on which the pillar stands I should decidedly 

 pronounce not to have been so. The Kotela was to old Delhi what the 

 Lai Killa is to the present city, and was no doubt considered an 

 elegant building in remote times when painted plaister and colored tile 

 were the order of the day. M. K. 



XI.- — Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 



Wednesday Evening, 4th October. 

 The Hon'ble Sir Edward Ryan, President, in the chair. 



Lieut. E. B. Conolly, 6th Cavalry, and D. F. McLeod, Esq. C. S. were 

 ballotted for and elected members. 



T. H. Maddock, Esq. C. S. proposed by Mr. W. H. Macnaghten, 

 seconded by the President. 



Dr. Thomas Cantor, proposed by the Secretary, seconded by Mr. W. 

 Cracroft. 



Mr. C. Tucker, C. S. proposed by Mr. Walters, seconded by Dr. 

 Stewart. 



Mr. John Ewart, C. S. proposed by Dr. Stewart, seconded by Mr. 

 Walters. 



Library. 



The following works were presented by the Rev. Dr. Mill. 



Psalterium Davidis Regis et Prophetse aliorumque Vatum Sacrorum Arabice 

 & Gul. H. Mill, S. T. D. 



Liturgia Anglicana, Seu Liber Precum Communium et Administrationis Sacra- 

 mentorum. — Translated into Arabic by Pococke, Tytler and Mill. 



Amaenitatum exoticarum politico-physico-medicarum, Fasciculi V. 



Relandi antiquitates sacrse Veterura Hebrseorum. 



Auber's Rise and Progress of the British power in India— presented by the 

 Government. 



The Meteorological Register, August,— presented by the Surveyor General. 



The Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society returned thanks for the first 

 part of the 19th vol. As. Researches. 



The Secretary notified the vacancy of the librarianship by the death of 

 Dr. L. Burlini. 



Dr. Burlini was a native of Italy. He received his diploma as a doctor of 

 medicine at Florence on the 30th July, 1794. He came to India in the following 

 year and had supported himself by his practice in this city ever since. He was 

 appointed to the honorary charge of our library in 1826, afterwards receiving a 

 trifling allowance of 50 rupees monthly for conveyance. His attention has 

 been unremitted and the society has lost in him a useful and zealous officer, 

 and a kind and worthy associate. He died at the advanced age of 79. 



To succeed to the appointment the following candidates had offered themselves. 



Mr. Chester, Mr. Barfoot, Mr. C. W. French, Mr. Fleury, Mr. Lewis 

 DaCosta, Mr. G. S. Hutteman, Mr. J. Morris, Mr. P. Delmar, senior, Mr. 

 D. Drummond, Mr. G. T. F. Speed. 



To these the Secretary begged to add the name of one who, he was sure, would 

 need no certificate of his qualifications to fill the post with honor to himself aud 



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