Proceedings of the Asiatic Society for the month of April, 1846. 



The monthly meeting of the Society was held at the usual hour at 

 the rooms on Wednesday the 1st of April. Colonel Forbes, Vice- 

 President, in the chair. 



Read a letter from the Secretary, apologising for his inability to 

 attend the meeting, and intimating that Mr. Heatly would officiate for 

 him during the evening. 



J. T. Shave, Esq., proposed at the last meeting, was ballotted for 

 and declared to be duly elected as a member. The usual communica- 

 tion was ordered to be made to him. 



The Proceedings of the March meeting were then read, confirmed, 

 and directed to be published. 



Read the following list of Books : — 



List of Books received for the Meeting of Wednesday, the 1st April 1846. 

 Books Presented. 



1. Meteorological Register for February, 1846, from the Surveyor General's 

 Office. 



2. The Calcutta Christian Observer for March, 1846.— By the Editors. 



3. The Oriental Christian Spectator for February and March, 1846.— By the 

 Editor. 



4. Brief lectures on Mental Philosophy and other subjects, delivered in Sanscrit to 

 the Students of the Benares Sanskrit College, with an address to the Pundits and 

 Students. (2) Copies.— By J. Muir, Esq. C. S. 



5. The Oriental Translation Fund. — By the Oriental Translation Fund. 



6. Ibn Khallikans Biographical Dictionary, Translated from the Arabic by Baron 

 Mac Guckin de Slane, vol. iii. Part 1. By the Oriental Translation Fund. 



7. Astronomical Observations made at the Observatory of Cambridge, by the 

 Reverend J. Challis, M. A. By the University of Cambridge. 



8. Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, vol. 15, Part II. 1845. 

 — By the Society. 



9. The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine, No. 184. — By 

 the Editor. 



