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1861.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 
7. From M. Stanislas Julien a copy of his work entitled “ Metliode 
pour Dechiffrer et Transcrire Les Nonas Sanserifs Dans les Livres 
Chinois.” 
A letter was read announcing the withdrawal of Lieutenant II.* 
Sconce from the Society. 
The following gentlemen duly proposed at the last meeting were 
balloted for, and elected ordinary members : — 
T. Anderson, Esq., M. D., F. L. S. 
Major J. T. Walker, Bombay Engineers. 
Captain E. L. Earle, Bengal Artillery. 
The following gentlemen were named for ballot at the next meet- 
ing : 
J. D. Tremlett, Esq. C. S., proposed by Mr. Cowell, seconded by 
Mr. Atkinson. 
Maharaja Man Singh Bahadur, of Oude, proposed by Mr. Atkinson, 
seconded by Dr. Fayrer. 
His Excellency Sir William Denison, K. C. B,, Governor of Madras, 
proposed by Mr. Atkinson, seconded by the President. 
Capt. L. Pelly, Bombay Army, proposed by Sir Bartle Frere, 
seconded by the President. 
Communications were received — 
1. From Lieut.-Col. H. Yule, the following note of an account of a 
printing press discovered in the F ortress of Agra when it surrendered 
to the British Army under Lord Lake in 1803. 
Calcutta, April 2Gth, 18G1. 
My deae Atkinson, — Among some old papers, I lately found 
the note which I copy and enclose, thinking it may be worth printing 
in the Society’s Journal. 
I am not aware whether there is any other information existing 
as to the attempted introduction of printing in India under the 
great kings of the 17th century. 
The original note is in the handwriting of my father, the late 
Major William Yule of the Bengal Army. He was all his life a devoted 
student of Persian and Arabic literature, and left a large collection 
of Eastern MSS. which are now in the British Museum. At the 
date referred to, (1803) he was Asst, to Col. Scott, the Eesident at 
Lucknow. 
The sheet of the Koran to which the note refers is, I regret to say, 
