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regulated by the Committee of Papers and Secretary ; and the person under whose Super- 

 intendance the Museum may be placed. 



34. That the expense which may be incurred in preparing Materials, furnished in a 

 state unfit for preservation, be defrayed by the Society, within a certain and fixed extent. 



35. All Articles presented to the Museum, shall be delivered in the first instance to 

 the Superintendent of the Museum, to enable him to make the acknowledgement directed 

 in the Standing Rules of the Society. 



36. A Register of Donations to the Museum, shall be exhibited at each Meeting of 

 the Society. 



37. The Committee of Papers shall adopt such means as may appear proper, for 

 making the intentions of the Society in this respect generally known. 



38. That the names of Persons contx'ibuting to the Museum or Library of the So- 

 ciety, be hereafter published at the end of each volume of the Asiatick Researches. 



PHYSICAL COMMITTEE. 



Extract from the Proceedings of a General Meeting of the Society, 



held on the 2d of January. 



*' It having occurred to many of the Members of the Asiatic Society, that the General 

 Meetings are held at intervals too remote, and for purposes of too formal and miscellaneous 

 a nature, to be calculated to promote any particular branch of enquiry, especially, when of 

 a Scientific character, in which the interest that may be taken must be restricted to a 

 limited number of individuals ; 



And it having also occurred to them, or been brought to their knowledge, that many 

 persons anxious and qualified to contribute to Scientific enquiries, are deterred by diffidence, 



