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For all the above communications and donations, the thanks of the 

 Society were voted, and the meeting adjourned. 

 Confirmed 4th September, 1850. 



r W. Jackson, Vice-President, 

 Signed | ¥ Hayes, Secretary. 



Report of the Curator, Zoological Department, for August Meeting, 1850. 

 To the Secretary of the Asiatic Society. 



Sir, — I have only on this occasion to report the arrival of a large box of 

 skins of mammalia and birds collected in the Kandian territories by Dr. 

 Kelaart, of the Ceylon Medical Service. They are sent to me privately for 

 comment, with permission to present certain specimens to the Society; and I 

 propose to draw up a paper of descriptions of some of them for publication 

 in the Society's Journal. 



I have the honour to be, Sir, 



Your's obediently, 



E. Blyth. 



Asiatic Society's Room, Aug. 30, 1850. 



Library. 



The following additions have been made to the Library since the last 

 meeting. 



Presented. 



Rapport sur les Etudes du Chemin de fer de Chambery a Turin, et de la 

 Machine proposee pour executes le Tunnel des Alpes entre Modane et Bar- 

 donneche par M. le Chevalier Henri Maus : et Rapport redige au nom de la 

 Commission chargee de l'examen de ces etudes par M. le Chevalier Pierre 

 Paleocapa, Turin 1850. fol. — Presented by M. Christofaro Negri. 



Report of the Revenue Administration of the Lower Provinces, for 1847-8, 

 (fol. Pamphlet).- — By the Government of Bengal. 



Futtehgur-Nameh, by Halay Rae, Deputy Collector. (Urdu.) — Present- 

 ed by Sir Henry Elliot, Kt. 



Report by the Secretary, on the Proceedings of the Bombay Geographical 

 Society for 1849-50.— By G. Buist, Esq. 



A few Remarks on certain Draft Acts of the Government of India, com- 

 monly called the " Black Acts." By Ram Gopaul Ghose. Calcutta 1850, 

 8vo. pamphlet. — By Babu Ra'jendrala'l Mittra. 



A Letter to J. C. Melvill, Esq., Secretary to the East India Company, on 

 the Grand Exhibition of Art to be held in London, in 1851, as connected with 

 the manufactures and raw produce of India. By J, Tailor, Esq. 1850, 8vo- 

 pamphlet. — By the Author, 



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