Quarterly Meeting, Aug. 2\st 3 1852. xxxiii. 



It was unanimously resolved, that the Society do, through 

 their Secretary, convey to His Excellency Sir G. W. Ander- 

 son, their best thanks for the donation thus handsomely made 

 to their Library. 



Presented by the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. 



Vol. II. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. 



Fourth Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, for the year 1849. 



Report of the Smithsonian Institution, on the discovery of the Planet 

 Neptune, by Benjamin Apthorp Gould, jun. 



Notices of Public Libraries in the United States of America, by Charles 

 C. Jewett, Librarian of the Smithsonian Institution. 



Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science — Fourth meeting, August 1 850. 



With reference to the Singhalese numerals, sent to the 

 Society by Mr. A. O. Brodie from Anoorajapoora, laid before 

 the last Meeting, and entrusted to Mr. L. De Soyzafor exam- 

 ination and report ; Mr. De Soyza stated, that having in the 

 course of his inquiries into the subject met with some inter- 

 esting facts, he proposed embodying them in a short paper, 

 which he trusted would be ready by the next Meeting. 



Mr. Gogerly then read a paper on Budhism. 



The Rev. C. Alwis moved that the paper then read be sent 

 to the Reading Committee for report; the Rev. J. Kats second- 

 ing the motion, it was carried. 



The Secretary representing that a vacancy existed in that 

 Committee, occasioned by the removal of Captain Neill to 

 Kandy, it was resolved that the Rev. C. Alwis be requested 

 to fill the said vacancy. Mr. Alwis accepted the proposal. 



Mr. Layard exhibited the Society's shells, and the additions 

 he had made to them, arranged in some slight order; but stated 

 he had not consulted the members of the Committee on Science 

 on the final arrangement or disposition of them, therefore 

 made no report. The Meeting then adjourned. 



E. L. Layard, 



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