742 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [No. 7. 



Exchanged. 

 The Athenseum, for July, 1854. 



The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine, No. 50. 

 The Calcutta Review, No. 45. 



Purchased. 

 Journal des Savants, for July, 1854. 

 Comptes Eendus, Nos. 1 and 2, for July, 1854. 

 The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, No. 80. 

 Churnak, 12mo. 



Casheenath's System of Logic, 8vo. 

 Neelratna's Bohoodarsan, 8vo. 

 Rammohun Roy's Bengali Grammar, 8vo. 

 Padanka Duta, 12mo. 

 A'tmatattwa Vidya, 12mo. 

 Morton's Proverbs, 8vo. 

 Hatem Tai, in Bengali, 4to. 

 Shahnameh, in Bengali, 4to. 



Ra'jendrala'l Mittra. 



For November, 1854. 



At a meeting of the Asiatic Society held on the 1st inst. at half- 

 past 8 p. M. 



Sir James Colvile, Kt. President, in the Chair. 



The minutes of the last month's proceedings were read and con- 

 firmed. 



Presentations were received — ■ 



1 . From the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Vienna, all the pub- 

 lications of the Academy (for detail, vide Library report). 



2. Prom the Royal University of Christiania, all the publications 

 of the University (for detail, vide Library report). 



3. Prom Lt. Col. Baker on the part of E. M. Stephenson, Esq. 

 managing director, E. I. Railway, the following specimens of iron 

 ores, viz. (1) A specimen of coal from Natal, Cape of Good Hope ; 

 (2) Specimens of iron ore from Nagpoor, with a memorandum by 

 the Eev. J. Hislop ; (3) Specimens of iron and iron ore from the neigh- 

 bourhood of Poona, &c. in Nimar, with a sample of the iron manu- 

 factured therefrom ; (4) Specimens of iron and iron ore from near 



