306 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [No. 3. 



The following gentlemen duly proposed and seconded at the last 

 meeting were balloted for, and elected ordinary members. 



Dr. J. J. Clarke, Hameerpore. 



P. Schiller, Esq. Calcutta. 



H. P. A. B. Biddell, Esq. B. C. S. was named for ballot at the 

 next meeting, proposed by the Hon'ble Col. Low and seconded by 

 the President. 



Eecorded a note from Major J. S. Banks, wishing to withdraw 

 from the Society. 



The Council submitted the following recommendations — 



1st. That the offer of Bev. P. Mason, to print the text and 

 translation of a Pali Grammar be accepted. The work to be pub- 

 lished as proposed by the Secretaries, viz. an Introduction with a 

 translation of the Grammar ; in London, and the Pali text hereafter. 



2d. That the estimated expense for completing the Society's 

 collection of the Puranas, be sanctioned and charged to the Oriental 

 Fund. 



Sd. That the present Editors of the Icabah be requested to com- 

 mence with the publication of the latter portion of the work, to be 

 brought out by Hajee Mohammed Hosain under the precautions 

 necessary to preserve uniformity in the series, and that his offer to 

 become the Society's Agent be also accepted. 



4. That the Society subscribe for 5 copies of Pandit Premchand's 

 edition of the Baghava Pandaviya, the cost being charged to the 

 Oriental Pund. 



Besolved that the recommendations of the Council be adopted. 



Bead Letters — 



1. Prom Babu Badhanath Sikdar enclosing Abstracts of Meteo- 

 rological Begister kept at the Surveyor General's Office, Calcutta, 

 for the month of Pebruary, 1854. 



Prom "W. Muir, Esq. Secretary to the Government of the North 

 Western Provinces, enclosing Meteorological Begister kept at the 

 Secretariat Office, Agra, for the month of March last. 



Prom B. Clarke, Esq. Honorary Secretary to the Boyal Asiatic 

 Society of London, acknowledging the receipt of the last 4 Nos. 

 of the Bibliotheca Indica. 



