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The Council report the following nominations to fill the six vacan- 

 cies on the list of Honorary Members. 



lst. — Dr. Albrecht Weber, as one of the most eminent Sanskrit 

 scholars of Germany. He has particularly devoted himself to the study 

 of the White Yajur Veda, and he has the enviable distinction of having 

 edited an entire series, comprising the Sanhita of the Hymns, the 

 accompanying Satapatha Brahmana, and the Eitual Sutras of Katya- 

 yana. Beside this great work, his four volumes of Indische Studien 

 abound with new and valuable information in reference to the Vaidic 

 period of Hindú literature. 



2d. — Edward Thomas, Esq., as the author of valuable papers in our 

 Journal and in those of the Royal Asiatic and Numismatic Societies, 

 on several series of Asiatic medals, and more especially on those series 

 which contribute to the early history of India ; and as the editor of 

 Prinsep's Indian Antiquities. 



3rd. — Mons. Stanislas Julien, whose researches in the history and 

 antiquities of China have raised him among the most distinguished 

 Orientalists of the present day. His contributions to the Journal 

 Asiatique are numerous and of great interest. Among his sepárate 

 publications may be noticed his Travels and Life of Hiouen Thsang ; 

 Mengtsieu, vel Mencius inter Sinenses philosophus ; i' Histoire dw 

 Cercle de Craie, and Le Livre des Recompenses et des Peines. They 

 are works of consummate erudition, and any one of them is sufncient 

 to establish the character of a scholar. 



4th. — Dr; Aloys Sprenger, as an Arabic scholar of celebrity and as 

 a valuable contributor in that capacity to early Mahommedan history, 

 and as now engaged on what promises to be the best extant biography 

 of Mahommed. 



5th. — Dr. Robert Wight as a valuable contributor to our knowledge 

 of Indian Botany, and more especially of that of the Peninsula and 

 the Neilgherries. 



6th. — Colonel George Everest, Eellow of the Royal Society, former- 

 ly of the Bengal Artillery, Surveyor General of India, and Superin- 

 tendent of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India from 1823 to 

 1843 and Surveyor GeDeral 1830 to 1843. Of the many important 

 works executed under Col. Everest's direction, the most important 

 and that by which he will be best known to posterity is the northern 



