462 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society* [No. 5. 



Foe October, 1856. 



At a monthly general meeting of the Society held on the 1st 

 instant, at the usual hour, 



Captain W. S. Sherwill, senior member present, in the chair. 



The proceedings of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



A presentation was received from Mr. Moore of a glass tumbler 

 melted by the electric fluid passing through a room. The following 

 is his note. 



" I send you a tumbler melted by a flash of lightning. Luckily 

 the bolt passed through the room without doing any one any harm, 

 though several were seated at table when the occurrence took 

 place." 



Letters from Mr. Huflhagle and Captain Hopkinson, announcing 

 their withdrawal from the Society, were recorded. 



Raja Gris Chundra Ray a Bahadur of Kishnaghur was proposed by 

 A. Grote, Esq., and seconded by Dr. Spilsbury for ballot at the next 

 meeting. 



The council submitted reports — 



1. — Announcing that Dr. Sprenger having gone to Europe, his 

 place in the Council had been filled up by the election of Mr. 

 Samuells, subject to the confirmation of the Society at the next 

 meeting. 



3. — Recommending that the suggestions contained in the sub- 

 joined report from the Sub-Committee of Philology be adopted. 



Report of the Philological Sub- Committee to the Council of the 

 Asiatic Society. 



With reference to the late Despatch from the Hon'ble Court of 

 Directors on the Oriental publications of the Asiatic Society, and 

 the expected departure of Dr. Sprenger from India the Sub-Com- 

 mittee of Philology submit the following suggestions for the 

 consideration of the Council. 



The Sub-Committee find that there are now sixteen works in 

 course of publication in the Bibliotheca Indica. Of these five are 

 Arabic and Persian, and the rest Sauskrit. The former include Ibn 

 Koteyba's Handbook of History, the Sekandernaraah of Nizarny, a 



