1848.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 699 



From Dr. Campbell, Darjeeling, communicated by the Hon'ble the 

 President, giving a summary report of Dr. Hooker's progress in the 

 eastern Himalaya. 



From Dr. Campbell, forwarding, with a chart, a note on some of the 

 results of Colonel Waugh's operations in the Great Trigonometrical 

 Survey of the Himalaya near Darjeeling. 



From B. H. Hodgson, Esq. Darjeeling, forwarding a paper entitled 

 ' Anatomy of Ailurus, Porcula, and Stylocerus, with sundry emenda- 

 tory notes.' 



From the same, on the Aborigines of India. 



From Capt. Newbold, Madras Army, forwarding notes on the rocks 

 of the Mokattam Chain and of the eastern desert of Egypt, by Heke- 

 kyan Bey, Honorary Member Asiatic Society. 



The Secretary then read the following extracts from a Report from 

 Oriental Section : — 



To Dr. W. B. O'Shaughnessy, Secretary to the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 



Dated Asiatic Society, the 2nd Dec. 1848. 

 Sir, — By direction of the Oriental Section I have the honour to acknow- 

 ledge the receipt of your letter, dated the 6th ult., requesting the opinion 

 of the Section on several subjects of reference. 



1. With regard to Mr. Kcenig's books, I submitted a report to the Section, 

 on the strength of which I recommended the immediate purchase and 

 despatch of the books asked for by Mr. Kcenig, the money to be gradually 

 repaid by the sale of Mr. Kcenig's publications. The Section, however, are 

 against the purchases alluded to, without receiving further explanation as to 

 the source whence the expenditure on behalf of Mr. Kcenig is to be defrayed, 

 or som3 certainty that the Society will not be a loser by the measure. Nor 

 do they think that the Society are at all called on to act in the matter. At 

 any rate they wish the case to be submitted to a general meeting of the 

 Society. 



Among Mr. Kcenig's books, there are some of greet value, which ought to 

 be in the library of every Oriental scholar, for instance : " Westergaard's 

 Radices Sancrit," " Koregarten's Pancha Tantra," " Bcethlink's Panini," 

 " Lassen's Indian Antiquities," etc., and I have no doubt that the books will 

 sell soon, if their prices be reduced. I submit for the approval of the Sec- 

 tion and the Council a list at reduced prices. 



2. The Section have not expressed their opinion about the arrangement of 

 the sculptures, referred to in Mr. Bush by 's letter. 



