1850.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 497 



September 1850. 



At a meeting of the Asiatic Society held on the 4th instant — 



Welby Jackson, Esq. Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Proceedings of the preceding meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following gentlemen, having been duly proposed and seconded 

 at the last meeting, were balloted for and elected Members. 



Rev. W. Smith. 



L. S. Jackson, Esq. 



Notes were recorded from Dr. Macrae and Rev. S. Slater, withdraw- 

 ing from the Society. 



Read a letter from W. Jackson, Esq. presenting a copy of a work 

 on the Statistics of Agra, by C. C. Jackson, Esq. 



The Secretary submitted an application from Mr. H. Roberts, Assis- 

 tant to the Zoological Curator, soliciting an increase of Salary, also a 

 note from the Council, stating that under the present state of the 

 Society's Funds, they do not think themselves justified in recommend- 

 ing any increase of Salary to Mr. Roberts. 



The Librarian and Zoological Curator having submitted their usual 

 monthly reports, the meeting adjourned. 

 Confirmed, 2nd October, 1850. 



"Welby Jackson, Vice-President. 

 Fletcher Hayes, Secretary. 

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



Sir, — My present Report records the presentation of the following dona- 

 tions. 



1. Babu Rajendra Mallika — A dead Lemur, the skin and skeleton of 

 which have been prepared. 



2. Raja Pertab Chand Singh — A recent specimen of a Shark. 



3. Capt. Berdmore, Madras Artillery, Moulmein. A collection of skins 

 chiefly procured at Mergui. Among them is that of a Squirrel which does 

 not exactly tally with any previously examined. In the bird class, it adds a 

 very beautiful Malayan Owl, Syrnium seloputo, (Horsfield,) to the Society's 

 collection ; and there are specimens of the young of Sturnia sinensis, a spe- 

 cies stated by Mr. Lesson to inhabit the Malayan peninsula and Cochin China 

 as well as China. Also specimens of Argus giganteus and Euplocomus ignitus, 

 neither of which magnificent Gallinacece had previously been observed so far 



