1837.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 985 



publi^e dans peude jours ; l'impression de cette ouvrage, (qui a ^te* confix par la 

 Society Asiatique de Paris a. mes soins et a ceux de raon savant collegue Monsieur 

 Reinaud de 1' Inslitut,) s' avance rapidement, et nous £sperons pouvoir bientot 

 en offrir un exemplaire a votre Soci£te\" 



Library. 



The following Books were presented by Lieut.-Colonel Sykes, through 

 Captain Henning of the Ship Windsor. 



Remarks on the origin of the popular belief in the Upas, or poison tree of 

 Java, by Lieut.-Colonel W. H. Sykes, F. R. S. 



Descriptions of new species of Indian Ants. 



Land Tenures of Dukhun. 



Abstract of the statistics of Dukhun, 1827-28. 



On the increase of wealth and expenditure in the various classes of Societv in 

 the United Kingdom as indicated by the returns made to the tax office, exports 

 and imports, savings banks, &c. &c. 



On the Geology of a portion of Dukhun, East Indies. 



The following by the authors and editors respectively : 



Le Diwan d'Ainro'lkais precede de la vie de ce poete par l'auteur du Kitab el 

 Aghani accompagne" d'une traduction et de Notes par le Baron MacGuckin de 

 Slane, 1837 — by the author. 



Bulletin de la Soci^te" De Geographie, Vol. 6th — by the Society. 



Recueil de voyages et de memoires public" par la Soc Geog. &c. Paris, Vol. I. 

 containing Geographie d'Edrisi traduite del'Arabe en Francais par P. Ame'db'e 

 Jaubert, Vol. I. — by the same. 



Les Oeuvres de Wali, translated with notes, by M. GARgiN de Tassy. 



Manuel del'auditeur du Coursd' Hindoustani ou Themes Gradu£s — by ditto. 



Die Stupa's oder die architektonischen Deukmale an der grofsen Konigs- 

 strasse swischen Indien, Persien and Baktrien. Von C. Ritter — by the author. 



Also various brochures, being extracts from the great works of the same author 

 on the Physical Geography of Asia : — 



"Der Ju (Yu) Stein, ju-chi der chinesen :— Der elephant indicus : — Weber 

 Berbreitung der Pfetferrebe, banane und mango in Indien : — Der indiscbe Feigen- 

 baum, asvattha: — Ueber den tope von Manikyala : — Das Lowen and Tiger-land 

 in Asiien ; and die Opium cultur. 



Transactions of the Geological Society of London, Vol. 4th, part 2nd, and their 

 proceedings from No. 47 to 50 inclusive, with a list of its members — by the 

 Society. 



Bell's Comparative View of the external commerce of Bengal during the years 

 1835-36 and 1836-37— by the author. 



Madras Journal of Literature and Science, Oct. by Dr. Cole, the Editor. 



Vivdda-chi?itamani , — edited and presented by Jogdhan Pandit, Sanskrit Col- 

 lege. 



Meteorological Journal for 1837 — by the Surveyor General. 



Received from the Booksellers : 



Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia — Statesmen, Vol. III. 



Swainson's birds, Vol. II. 



Wellesley's dispatches, Vol. IV. 



The secretary laid on the table a catalogue of the Arabic, Persian, Tur- 

 kish and Hindu works in the Society's library, prepared by the Society's 

 maulavi and printed in Persian for general circulation. 



Antiquities. 



Major P. L. Pew wrote from Delhi that at his solicitation, Maharaja 

 Hindu Rao had handsomely presented the ancient pillar, lately lying in 

 Colonel Fraser's grounds, to the Asiatic Society. 



Major Pew stated that the fragment containing the inscription was the largest 

 of the whole, and that its weight was very considerable so as to render it difficult 

 to remove it from its present situation for transmission to Calcutta. It was 

 suggested that as the shaft was already broken, and the written part considerably 

 mutilated it would answer the Society's object to cut off the portion containing 

 the inscription, which would thus be reduced to portable dimensions. 



Resolved, that thanks be given to Maharaja Hindu Rao for this liberal 

 gift, as well as to Major Pew, for his kind exertions on behalf of the So- 



