1855.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 703 



Sir, — I have the honor to acknowledge your letter of the 12th inst. 

 giving cover to a resolution adopted by the Asiatic Society at their last 

 ordinary general meeting, and recommending it to my earnest consi- 

 deration. 



The purport of the resolution is a gratifying proof to me of my not 

 having laboured in vain in the honorable office to which the Society elected 

 me now nearly three years ago, and under other circumstances I could 

 scarcely hesitate to comply with an invitation at once so cordial and 

 so nattering. 



But the step which I have taken was a deliberate one, to which, with 

 the greatest deference to the wishes of the Society, I must beg its permis- 

 sion to adhere. 



I have, &c. 



Calcutta, Sept. \bth, 1855. (Signed) A. G-rote. 



He then proposed that " this meeting receives with regret the 

 resignation of Mr. Q-rote as Secretary of the Society and Editor of 

 the Journal, and desires to record its grateful sense of the dis- 

 tinguished zeal and ability with which he has so long discharged the 

 arduous duties of his office." 



The motion having been seconded by Capt. Thuillier, was carried. 



Communications were received — 



1. Prom the Government of the N. W. Provinces through Mr. 

 Assistant Secretary Carmichael, the Meteorological Eegister kept at 

 the Government Secretariat, Agra, for the month of August last. 



2. Prom E. Blyth, Esq. enclosing a paper entitled " Purther 

 Eemarks on the different species of Orang-utan." 



3. Prom E. Thomas, Esq. forwarding a paper on ancient Indian 

 numerals. 



4. Prom B. H. Hodgson, Esq. submitting a paper on a new 

 Perdicine bird from Tibet, with a drawing. 



5. Prom Major A. Phayre, transmitting, from Amerapura, a tran- 

 script and translation of a Burmese scroll found in the relic chamber 

 of a Pagoda at Prome. "The writing of the scroll," says Major 

 Phayre " is quite modern ; but is still interesting as showing a 

 Buddhist Monk's objects and wishes in restoring an ancieut Pagoda." 



He also announces the discovery of an ancient city near Pagan* 

 several inscriptions from which he intends to send to the Society 



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