xxiv Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [March, 1846. 



List of Books received for the Meeting of Wednesday, the ith March, 1846. 



Presented. 



1. Meteorological Register for January, 1846. From the Surveyor General's 

 Office. 



2. The Calcutta Christian Observer, for March, 184 C— By the Editors. 



3. The Oriental Christian Spectator, for February, 1846. By the Editor. 



4. London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine, No. 179, for Sep- 

 tember, 1845.— By the Editor. 



5. Zeitschrift fur du Kunde des Morgenlandes herausgeghen Von Christian 

 Lassen, Fuufcen Bundes Zweites Heft, 1844. — By the Author. 



6. Atlas of Anatomical Plates, Fasciculus I. containing the Bones. — By F. J. 

 Mouat, M. D. 



7. Astronomical Observations made at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good- 

 Hope, 1834, under the direction of F. Maclear, Esq. : F. R. S. R. A. S., &c. &c, 

 Her Majesty's Astronomer, vol. 1st. — By the Royal Society. 



8. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, part 12, 1844. — By the 

 Society. 



9. Tareelc Eausafee, by Esuf Khan Hydrabadee. — By the Author. 



Purchased. 



10. Wilkinson's Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, 5 vols. 



11. Plates to Wilkinson's Ancient Egyptians. 



12. Journal des Savans for October, 1845. 



13. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, vol. 16, No. 107, for Dec. 1845. 



14. Gould's Australian Birds, part XX. 



15. Sanghita, 18 uumbers. 



16. Edinburgh Review, Nos. 161 and 162. 



Exchanged. 



17. Journal Asiatique, vol. 5, No. 24, June, 1845. 



18. The Athenaeum, No. 946 to 948, for December, 1845. 



Read the report of the Committee of Papers upon the questions which 

 have occupied its attention as regards the employment of a salaried Sub- 

 Secretary ; it appearing that the funds of the Society do not permit 

 of the maintenance of this officer, the Committee recommended that, 

 much, as it regretted the necessity which the proposed arrangement 

 included of depriving the Society of the services of Dr. Roer, it was 

 obliged to suggest a re-arrangement of the Secretary's establishment, 

 whereby an individual, in a position to devote the whole of his time 

 to the duties of Librarian, and capable at the same time of acting as 

 assistant to the Secretary might be engaged. The Committee, therefore, 



