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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



The tenth annual meeting of this Society was held on Saturday; 

 the President, the Right Hon. C. W. Williams Wynn, M. P. in 

 the chair. The reports of the council and auditors were read, and 

 gave great satisfaction to a very fully attended meeting. The re- 

 port of the council lamented the continued illnessof Mr. Colebrooke, 

 which deprives the Society of his valuable personal assistance ; it 

 also noticed in appropriate terms the many distinguished ornaments 

 of whom the Society has been deprived by death during the past 

 year, recording particular notices of the following : viz. H. H. the 

 Rajah of Tanjore, Dr. Adam Clarke^ Colonel Baillie, Mr. J. S. 

 Lushino:ton, Dr. Turnbull Cristie, and Mr. Hyde Villiers. Among 

 the foreign members, were mentioned M M. Remusat, St. Martin, 

 Chezy, Jacquemont, and Rask. The donations to the Society have 

 been more numerous since the last report than during the preceding 

 year. They are chiefly of a literary character ; the East India 

 Company, the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, Royal 

 Irish Academy, the Societe Asiatique of Paris, and many other 

 distinguished literary institutions, were recorded among the donors. 

 Of the presents received from individuals, the council particularly 

 noticed the edition and Latin translation of Mirkhoud's History of 

 the Gaznevide Monarchs, dedicated to the Society by Professor 

 Wilken. principal librarian to the King of Prussia ; and the Essay 

 on the Architecture of the Hindoos by Ram Raz,* a corresponding 

 member of the Society. The council intimated that this interesting 

 work, with its beautiful illustrative drawings, was under the consi- 

 deration of a committee, with a view of preparing a plan for its pub- 

 lication. After these notices of the most important donations, the 

 report mentioned that a new prospectus of the Society's objects and 

 means had been prepared, and would shortly be issued ; and in the 

 next place called the attention of the meeting to the second part of 

 Vol. III. of the Society's Transactions, this day laid on the table. 

 Among the papers contained in it, is a communication from a na- 

 tive of India, Ramasorami Mudeliar Jaqhirdar, of the island of Si- 

 vasaraudram, being the first of that description which has yet been 

 published in the Transactions ; and to this fact the attention of the 

 members was particularly directed. In conclusion, the report ad- 

 verted to the peculiar claims of the .Society to support, as affording 

 a medium by which the latent energies and acquirements of the na- 



* This gentleman was for many years head English master of the College of 

 Fort St George; he has recently been appointed one of the native judges for 

 the province of Mysore, the government of which has been transferred to the 

 East India Company. 



