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Wilson of Bombay was requested to use his endeavours lo procure a copy ; but 

 I do not recollect to have heard the result. If no effective steps were taken 

 towards the end in view, I would beg to suggest that the attempt should be 

 renewed, and application made to any of the Society's Correspondents in the 

 Madras Presidency, or in any quarter which may seem most likely to promise 

 success. It was in the College of the Jesuits at Pondicherry, if I recollect 

 right, that the manuscript was said to be deposited ; and perhaps that establish- 

 ment may have been broken up at the period of the French Revolution or 

 from subsequent causes. If this, on enquiry, appear to be the case, the fate of 

 the Library, and its present place of deposit, if still in existence, might be traced. 

 I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, 



Your most Obedient Servant, 

 Calcutta, Jan. 20th, 1848. J. Mum, M. A. S. B. 



Resolved, that M. E. Ghibelin of Pondicherry be requested by the 

 Society to institute the search for the Pseudo-Yajur Veda, recommended 

 by Mr. Muir. 



Read a proposition from the Council, that Dr. Joseph Dalton 

 Hooker, R. N. F. R. S. &c, &c. author of the Flora Antartica, late 

 Naturalist to Sir John Ross' expedition, and who has accompanied 

 the Earl of Dalhousie to India for the purpose of examining the 

 Flora and natural productions of the Sikim district, and eventually of 

 Borneo — be elected an Honorary Member of the Asiatic Society. Dr. 

 Hooker was accordingly elected by acclamation an Honorary Member 

 of the Society. 



Mr. H. M. Elliot, presented and read extracts from several reports 

 from Capt. A. Cunningham, on the progress and investigations of the 

 Tibet Mission. The Secretaries having undertaken to print the whole 

 of the documents in the February number of the Journal, it was pro- 

 posed by the Lord Bishop, seconded by Dr. O'Shaughnessy, and vot- 

 ed by acclamation, that the cordial thanks of the Society be presented 

 to Mr. Elliot for the valuable aid he is affording to the Society's 

 labours. 



Dr. O'Shaughnessy read several extracts from a private letter to him- 

 self, from Professor Henry, of Princeton, United States, containing an 

 account of the origin of the Smithsonian Institute, and remarks on 

 several most important discoveries in physical science. The Secretaries 

 were requested to publish the extracts read, and on the proposition of 



