PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



For January, 1848. 



Annual Meeting, 12th of January, 1848. 



The Rev. Mr. McQueen, in the chair. 



The accounts and vouchers for December 1847, were submitted. 



Henry Alexander, Esq. C. S., was named as a candidate for election 

 at the February meeting, proposed by Mr. Blyth, seconded by It, W. 

 G. Frith, Esq. 



Letters were read as follows : — 



To the Secretary Asiatic Society. 



My dear Sir, — I shall be obliged by your taking my name off the List of Sub- 

 scribers of the Asiatic Society, until better times come, when T shall be prond again 

 to be enrolled. 



Your's faithfully, 



William Theobald, 

 December 22d, 1847. 



From G. A. Bushby, Esq. Secretary to Government of India, Home 

 Department, transmitting copy of a paper by the Baron Des Granges, 

 entitled " A short surrey of the countries between Bengal and China, 

 showing the great commercial and political importance of the Burmese 

 town of Bhanmoo, on the Upper Irrawaddy." (Ordered to be published). 



From Wm. Grey, Esq. Under Secretary to the Government ofBengal, 

 conveying the sanction of Government for the enclosure and appropria- 

 tion of a piece of ground adjacent to the Society's premises, and lately 

 occupied as a Police Thanna. 



From the Officiating Deputy Surveyor General of India, forwarding 

 the Meteorological Register for December, 1847. 



From E. C. Ravenshaw, Esq., communicating an abstract statement 



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