1856.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 255 



uniformity of result could only be obtained by an uniform method 

 of examination and a combined system of investigation. It was to 

 this that the Government Survey owed their results, not to any 

 superiority individually over previous investigators of the districts 

 referred to. 



On the motion of the President the best thanks of the Society 

 were voted to Mr. Oldham for his highly interesting communication. 



W. S. Atkinson, Secretary. 



Library. 

 The Library has received the following accessions during the month of 

 April last. 



Presented. 



Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Part. I. Vol. XIX. — By 

 the Society. 



Journal Asiatique for January, 1856, Part VII. — By the Society. 



Journal of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India, Vol. 

 IX. part II. — By the Association. 



Catalogue of the Vernacular Literature Committee's Library.— By 

 Babu Ra'jendra'la'l Mittra. 



The Eighteenth Eeport of the Proceedings of the Calcutta School 

 Book Society. — By the Same. 



The Thirty-third Annual Report of the Parental Academic Institution 

 and Doveton College.— By Mr. G-. Smith. 



The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, No. 45. — By the 

 Society. 



Proceedings of the Eoyal Society of London, Nos. 17 and 18. — By the 

 Society. 



Upadeshak for April, 1856. — By the Editor. 



The Oriental Christian Spectator for March and April, 1856. — By the 

 Editor. 



The Calcutta Christian Observer for April, 1856. — By the Editors. 



The Oriental Baptist for April, 1856.— By the Editor. 



The Durbin, a Persian Newspaper for April, 1856. — By the Editor. 



The Citizen Newspaper for ditto, 1856. — By the Editor. 



The Tattwabodhini Patrika, No. 153.— Bytme Tattwabodhini Sobha* 



Exchanged. 

 The Atheneum for January and February, 1856. 

 Philosophical Magazine, Nos. 70 and 71, Vol. IL 



