1851.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 437 



Mr. Piddington expressed his regret for the inadvertent and hasty- 

 use of such expressions. 



Upon these explanations Mr. Mitchell withdrew his motion. 



The Council submitted to the favorable consideration of the Society, 

 an application from Babu Rajendralal Mittra for the employment of a 

 Pandit at Rs. 20 per mensem, payable out of the Oriental Fund, to 

 copy the Lalita Vistara and to assist him in preparing that work for 

 the press ; the allowance to be continued for one year. Sanctioned on 

 the proposal of the Chairman, seconded by Dr. A. Sprenger. 



Notice was given of a motion, for consideration at the next meeting, 

 by Rev. J. Long, that a report be rendered to the Society of the sum 

 expended during the last three years out of the Oriental Fund on the 

 following objects : — 



The pay of the Editor or Editors ; allowance granted to Pandits; the 

 sum appropriated to printing ; works printed ; and the amount rea- 

 lized by sale of the publications. 



Reports from the Curators were laid on the table. 



The following communications were laid before the Society — • 



1 st. — On the adaptation of the Aneroid for the purposes of surveying 

 in India, by Dr. G. Buist, Bombay. 



2nd. — On the influence of the Moon on the weather, by J. Middle- 

 ton, Esq. 



3rd. — An English translation of the Vichitra Natak, by Capt. 

 G. Siddons. 



4th. — A Conspectus of the Ornithology of India, Burma and the 

 Malayan peninsula, inclusive of Sindh, Asam, Ceylon and the Nicobar 

 Island, by Mr. E. Blyth. 



5th. — A translation of the Zafarnamah : a Dialogue between Aris- 

 totle and Buzurjumihr ; by Babu Narasinha Datta. 



6th. — A notice of the Manda Cave Temples, by W. Roberts, Esq. 

 Joint-magistrate of Mirzapur. 



Ordered that the Secretary refer to the Secretary to the Goverment 

 of India, Home Department, and to the Secretary to the Government of 

 the North Western Provinces, if necessary, for the drawings alluded to 

 by Mr. Roberts. 



7th. — Extract from a Journal up the Koladyn- river, Zillah Akyab, 

 Arracan, in February, 1851, by Captain S. R. Tickell, B. N. I. 



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