1850.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society . 493 



August 1850. 



The usual monthly meeting was held on Wednesday, the 7th instant, 

 at half-past 8 p.m. 



The Hon'ble Sir James W. Colvile, President, in the Chair. 



The proceedings of the July meeting having been read and con- 

 firmed, the Secretary stated that Lieut. Stubbs and Mr. H. R. Alexan- 

 der had intimated their desire to withdraw from the Society. 



The following Gentlemen were named for ballot at the next meeting : 



Rev. W. Smith — proposed by Rev. J. Long, and seconded by Capt. 

 Smith. 



Lowis Stuart Jackson, Esq. — proposed by Mr. J. R. Colvin, and 

 seconded by Henry Bogle, Esq. 



Read letters — 



From J. Cassella, Esq., Consul General of H. M. King of Sardinia, 

 forwarding a copy of a work entitled Rapport sur les Etudes Chemin 

 de fer de Chambery a Turin, presented to the Society by Professor 

 Christofaro Negri, President of the University of Turin. 



From Capt. Kittoe, relative to a communication regarding his 

 researches into the ruins of Sarnath, in Benares. 



It was proposed by Mr. J. R. Colvin, seconded by Mr. Jackson and 

 resolved — 



That the substance of Capt. Kittoe' s letter be forwarded to the 

 Secretary to Government, North- Western Provinces, with an expression 

 of the Society's sense of the interest that attaches to any Research into 

 the antiquities of Sarnath, and of its hope that the Government of the 

 North-Western Provinces will be pleased to give such assistance as may 

 be in its power, to the prosecution of Capt. Kittoe's enquiries. 



From F. L. Beaufort, Esq., forwarding some bricks with Arabic 

 inscriptions, from an old building near Jessore. 



From Joseph Power, Esq. Principal Librarian, University Library, 

 Cambridge, communicating the thanks of the University for a copy of 

 the Sanscrita Anthology and the first 14 Nos. of the Bibliotheca 

 Indica, presented to it by the Society, and requesting to be supplied 

 with the continuation of the last named work. 



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