456* Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [May, 



The Council recommend that Mr. Blyth's reply be read to the May meet- 

 ing, and referred to the Section of Natural History for their consideration ; 

 further, that the subject be again brought up and finally disposed of at the 

 next meeting. 



W. B. O'Shaughnessy, 



Secretary Asiatic Society. 



Mr. Blyth's reply, which was of great length, was read by the senior 

 Secretary. 



The proposition of the Council having been put to the vote, the fol- 

 lowing amendment was proposed by Mr. Newmarch and seconded by — 



That the report of the Section of Natural History with Mr. Blyth's reply 

 be referred for consideration to the next meeting of the Society, and that in 

 the meantime the Section be requested to communicate with Mr. Blyth, in 

 order that statements of facts may be laid before the meeting, to the correct- 

 ness of which both assent, and nothing be left to the meeting but to decide 

 upon the merit of Mr. Blyth's services. 



After considerable discussion the amendment was put to the vote and 

 lost, and the proposition of the Council adopted by a majority of U to 4. 

 The Librarian submitted his usual report as follows : 



Library. 

 The following books have been received since the last meeting. 



Presented. 



The Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia, Vol. II. Nos. II. 

 III. — By the Editor. 



A Chrestomathy of the Afghan Language. — By the Author. 



Twelfth Report of the Inspectors of Prisons presented to botli Houses of 

 Parliament by command of Her Majesty. — Forwarded by the Society's 

 London Agents. 



The Rocks of Pulo Ubin, by J. R. Logan. — By the Author. 



Nityadharmanuranjica, Nos 56, 57- — By the Editor. 



Tatwabodhini Patrica, No. 56. — By the Tatwabodhini Sabiia. 



Draft Report on the Principles of Punishment. — By M. Hill, Esq. 



Meteorological Register kept at the Surveyor General's Office, Calcutta, 

 for the month of March, 1848. — By the Deputy Surveyor General. 



Natural History of New York, part 2nd, Vols. I. II. and part 5th. — By 

 the Governor and Secretary of the State of New York. 



