PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL 



For January, 1851. 



The Annual General Meeting of the Asiatic Society was held on the 

 8th instant, at the usual hour and place. 



The Honorable Sir J. "W. Colvile, President, in the Chair. 



The proceedings of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



The Hon'ble J. C. Erskine, duly proposed and seconded at the 



December Meeting, was elected an ordinary member. 



Read Letters, 



1st. From A. Wattenbach, Esq. . . v«. .,> . i . • i , • i 



, ^ *- n ,*.,i -r. Signifying their wish to with- 



2nd. From J. B. Mill, Esq ?,;,«• 



n _ _ _ _ _ ■_ * I draw from the Society. 



3rd. From James Dodd, Esq J 



4th. From W. Seton Karr, Esq., forwarding a copy of the Rig 

 Veda Saiihita, presented to the Society, by the Honorable Court of Di- 

 rectors. 



5th. From Major W. Anderson, offering to give such parts of the 

 Rauza-tul-Safa, and Habib-ul-Saer, as the Society does not possess, in ex- 

 change for such as it may have in duplicate. Referred to the Secretary. 



6th. From Dr. A. Sprenger, suggesting that the Ketab-ul-Maarraf, 

 a work by Ibn Qutaybah, about 600 years old, of which he possesses 

 two good MSS., be printed in the Bibliotheca Indica. 



It was resolved — proposed by Mr. Mitchell and seconded by Dr. 

 Roer, that Dr. Sprenger's proposal to print the Ketab-ul-Maarraf in 

 the Bibliotheca Indica, at the expense of the Oriental Fund, be adopt- 

 ed, and Dr. S. be requested to undertake the editing of the work, and 

 to supply a translation. 



