1870.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 216 



to a fool of their own." The books also contains a history of his 

 life and a list of his works, from which it appears that the proper 

 title of the Balwantnamah is Tuhfah i Tazah, a copy of which, I find, 

 is in the Society's Library. 



Khairuddin was born December, 1751. The Tazkiratul 'Ulamd^ 

 the latest of those of his works which are known to me, was written 

 in A. H. 1216, or A. D. 1801. 



His works deserve the attention of all who wish critically to 

 stndy the times of the decline and fall of the Mughal empire and 

 the early period of the E. I. Company. 



The best thanks of the Society are due to Dr. W. Oldham for his 

 valuable present. 



The following gentlemen duly proposed and seconded at the last 

 Meeting were balloted for and elected Ordinary Members— 

 E. Lethbridge, Esq., M. A. 

 A. B. Miller, Esq. 

 The following gentlemen are candidates for ballot at the August 

 Meeting — 



R, H. Wilson, Esq., 0. S., and A. M. Broadly, Esq., 0. S., pro- 

 posed by W. W. Hunter, Esq., LL.D., C. S., seconded by the 

 Hon'ble J. B. Phear. 



The President on the part of the Council reported that a donation 

 of Rupees one thousand had been reeeived by the Society through 

 the Government of Bengal from the Kundu family of Dacca, in aid 

 of the annual grant made to the Society by the Government for the 

 conservation and cataloguing of Sanscrit MSS. in India. 



The President was sure that the Society in undertaking at the re- 

 quest of Government to dispose of the Es. 1,000 according to the in- 

 tention of the donors, would recognize the high motives, which had 

 led these gentlemen to make so handsome a donation for public pur- 

 poses. He trusted that this honorable example would not be lost, 

 and that the Kundu family might be able to boast of a long list of 

 imitators. 



The President then proposed a vote of thanks to the donors, which 

 was carried unanimously. 



