1854.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 503 



Mr. W. Grapel was balloted for, and elected an ordinary member, 



R. Spankie, Esq. C. S. was named for ballot at the next meeting : 

 proposed by G. H. Ereeling, Esq. and seconded by Dr. Clarke. 



The Council submitted a report recommending that the offer of 

 M. Alexander Yon Kremer, Dragoman of the Austrian Consulate 

 at Alexandria, to edit the original text of "Waquidy on the "Wars of 

 Mohammad for publication in the Bibliotheca Indica, be thankfully 

 accepted. 



Ordered that the recommendation be adopted. 



Communications were received — - 



1. Erom E. Thomas, Esq., a paper entitled ' Notes on the present 

 state of the Excavations at Sarnath.' 



2. Erom the Assistant Secretary to the Government of the North 

 Western Provinces, forwarding copy of a Meteorological Register 

 kept at the Office of the Secretary to the Government N. "W*. P. 

 for the month of June, 1854. 



3. Erom Dr. Eayrer, Lucnow, enclosing a copy of Meteorolo- 

 gical Observations kept at the Lucnow Residency, for the month 

 of May, 1854. 



4. Erom Babu Radhanath Sikdar, enclosing abstracts of Meteo- 

 rological Observations taken at the Surveyor General's Office, during 

 the month of April last. 



The Librarian submitted his usual monthly report. 



The Curator of the Zoological Museum exhibited a small collec- 

 tion of Insects which he had received from Ceylon, and a very 

 large Eungus (Boletus ?) which had been brought down from Upper 

 Assam. 



Library. 



The library has received the following accession of books since the last 

 meeting. 



Presented. 



The Xamus, an Arabic Dictionary in two volumes MS. — By Mou- 

 lavi Mohammad Alam Ali Khan. 



Libri Exodi et Levitici secundum Arabicam Pentateuchi Samaritani 

 versionem ab Abu Saido conscriptum quos ex tribus codicibus edidit A 

 Kuenen. Lugduni Bat. 1854, 8vo.— By the Curators of the Academy 

 of Leyden. 



