646 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [June, 



Robert Cathcart Dalrymple Bruce, Esq. H. M. — Regt. was proposed 

 as a member by tbe Hon'ble Sir J. W. Colvile, seconded by Mr. Walker. 



Read letters 



From W. Seton Karr, Esq. Under Secretary to the Government of 

 Bengal, forwarding two original letters with enclosures from Capt. Ellis, 

 Political Agent in Bundlecund, requesting queries contained therein to 

 be filled up. 



Ordered to be referred to the Oriental Section. 



From R. Thornton, Esq Assistant Secretary to the Government, North 

 "Western Provinces, forwarding a note on the transport of coal from 

 Sonadah to Bombay by the Nurbudda. 



From H. M. Elliot, Esq. Secretary to the Government of India, pre- 

 senting a copy of his Supplemental Glossary. 



From Dr. Campbell, Superintendant of Darjiling, journal of a Trip 

 to Sikim. 



Read extracts from a paper by B. H. Hodgson, Esq., on the Abo- 

 rigines of North -Eastern India. 



Read the following letter from Dr. Roer, Secretary to the Oriental 

 Section : — - 

 To J. W. Laidlay, Esq. Vice-President and Secretary to the Asiatic Society. 



Dated Asiatic Society, theAth June, 1849. 



Sir, — In reply to your letter of the 9th ult., I have the honour, by direction 

 of the Oriental Section, to state for the information of the Society, that the 

 Section have unanimously agreed to your proposal to print the Lalita Vistara iu 

 the Bibliotheca Indica, and to recommend that the copy of the Tarikh i Abu 

 Sayed, purchased by the Librarian at the sale of the Scinde property for Co/s 

 Rs. 33, should be taken at that price by the Society. 



2. I am also directed to submit a copy of the Kadambari, with a letter from 

 Pandit Madan Mohan Tarkalankar, requesting the patronage of the Society for 

 his edition of that work, price per copy Co.'s Rs. 3, and to propose for the ap- 

 proval of the Society the purchase of 20 copies. 



3. I forward a list of the accompanying Sanskrit books lately published in 

 Calcutta, which the Section suggest to be purchased for the Library of the 

 Society. 



4. The MS. of the Lalita Vistara and the copy of the Tarikh i Abu Sayed 

 are herewith returned. 



I have the honor to be, Sir, 



Your most obedient servant, 



E, Roer, Secy. Or. Sect. As, Soc. 



