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X. — PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



Proceedings of the Anniversary Meeting of the Royal Asiatic Society. 

 Held on the 6th of May, \S37. 



The Fourteenth Anniversary was held this day at One o'Clock ; the 

 Right Hon. Charles W. Williams Wynn, M. P., the President of the 

 Society, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 

 The Secretary then read the following Report of the Council 



ANNUAL REPORT, 



May 6, 1837. 



In submitting the Report of its Proceedings for the past year, the 

 Council has great satisfaction in being able to congratulate the Members 

 on the continued prosperity of the Society. 



For some years past the Council has had, on similar occasions to the 

 present, to express its deep regret at the prolonged state of ill-health of 

 the lamented Director of the Society. On this occasion the melancholy 

 duty devolves upon it of recording his demise. It will be in the recol- 

 lection of the Members, that, but a few weeks ago, this much to be 

 regretted occurrence induced the Council to adjourn the usual General 

 Meeting, and to testify, by every means in its power, the respect of the 

 Society to the memory of Mr. Colebrooke. The Society cannot but 

 feel the deepest concern at the loss of one who originally proposed its 

 formation, and who so ably contributed to support its character and 

 efficiency. In accordance with this feeling, therefore, and as a mark of 

 gratitude due to the memory of our late Director, a proposition will 

 shortly be submitted to you that the Society should, by a voluntary 

 contribution on the part of the Members, obtain a marble bust of the 

 deceased, to be placed in a conspicuous part of the General Meeting- 

 room of the Society. 



It also falls to your Council on this occasion, to mark by a special 

 notice, the loss which this Society has sustained in the deaths of two 

 others of its most eminent Members,— the learned and venerable Sir 

 Charles Wilkins, and William Marsden, Esq., to whom this Society, 

 and Oriental .literature in general, are so much indebted. It will not, 

 however, be expected of your Council to enter into, or attempt to 

 discuss, the great merits and worth of these highly distinguished Mem- 

 bers of our Society, as memoirs of their lives, if not already, will no 

 doubt soon be before the public, and as charac'ers of so much literary 



