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tic fossil ape, the nearest approach to fossil man that has yet rewarded the 

 labour of geologists. I shall also allude to the Scientific Mission upon which 

 you are at present engaged, and lead them to participate in our expectation of 

 splendid and valuable results to science in all the branches which your extended 

 knowledge embraces." 



Reply to the Sec. As. Soc. dated Camp Doab Canal, 2\st Nov. 1837. 

 Sir, 



I have the pleasure of acknowledging your letter of the 10th instant, with the 

 Wollaston medal awarded by the London Geological Society to my colleague 

 Hugh Falconer and myself. 



Although the honor conferred upon us by the late Council of the Geological 

 Society of London (distinguished as that Council was, and doubly distinguished 

 in the name of its President) has been and is the source of extreme gratification, 

 I would not lose this opportunity of expressing the acknowledgments which 

 1 consider due to the Asiatic Society of Calcutta, not only for its having been 

 in my case the animater of my humble career in the paths of science, but also 

 from its having done us the honor of admitting our papers into its Transactions, 

 and thereby of providing the Geological Society with data, by which it has been 

 guided in its present award. 



(Signed) P. T. CAUTLEY, Capt. Bengal Artillery. 

 Library. 



The following books were presented : — 



Voyage dans l'Inde par Victor Jacquemont, Parts 1 to 13— presented by the 

 Government of France — (forwarded by Messrs. Jouy etfils of Paris.) 



Translations of the Linnean Society, Vol. XVII. Part IV. and a list of its mem- 

 bers — by the Society. 



The fourth and fifth Reports of the British Association for the advancement 

 of Science — by the Association. 



Modern India, by Dr. H. H. Spry — by the Author. 



Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, No. 7 — by the Society. 



Earl Stanhope's address to the Medico-Botanical Society— by the Society. 



Proceedings of the Royal Society, Nos. 18 to 29 — by the Society. 



Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy for the year 1836-7 — by the Academy. 



Proceedings of the Committee of Agriculture and Commerce, &c. of the Royal 

 Asiatic Society — by the Society. 



A letter to the Right Honorable Sir Henry Hardinge, K. C. B. M. P. on the 

 effects of solitary confinement on the health of soldiers in warm climates, by John 

 Grant Malcolmson, F. R. S. and M. G. S. Surgeon E. I. C. Service, late 

 Secretary Madras Medical Board— by the Author. 



Ancient and Modern Alphabets of the Popular Hindu Languages of the South- 

 ern peninsula of India, by Captain H. Harkness, M. R. A. S. — by the Author. 



Von Hammer's history of the Ottoman empire, Vol. 18 — by the Author, 



Jahrbucher der Literatur, Vols. 73, 74, 75, and 77, edited by the Baron 

 Hammer Purgstall — by the Author. 



Four Gospels and Acts of the Apostles, Anglo-Hindustani — romanized, by 

 Mr. C. E. Trevelyan. 



Meteorological Register for November 1837 — by the Surveyor General. 



From the Booksellers : 



Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia — Literary and Scientific men, vol. 2. 



The Secretary laid before the Meeting-, a copy of the Khazdnat ul Ilm 

 at length completed, also the first proof of the Sharaya ul Islam recently- 

 undertaken in conjunction with Nevvab Taha'war Jung. Also the cata- 

 logue of Sanskrit, Prakrit, and Hindi works, in the Society's Library ; 

 inclusive of those received from the College of Fort William. 



Resolved, that copies of this and of the Persian catalogue, should be dis- 

 tributed to the learned Societies and to such oriental scholars as are hono- 

 rary members, in order that the contents of the Library may be generally 

 known ; and that copies may be made under the superintendence of the 

 Society's pandit or maulavi of any manuscripts for parties who may be de- 

 sirous of obtaining them, at the customary rates per 1,000 slocas for San- 

 skrit, and per/a* for Persian, subject to audit by the Committee of Papers. 



