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GLEANINGS IN SCIENCE. 
II PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
I. Asiatic Society. 
A meeting of this Society was held on Wednesday, 12th November. The Hon. 
Sir C. Metcalfe, Bart, in the chair. 
Captain Troyer and Sir. Hamilton were elected Members, and M. DeBlossville 
and Mr. Grseme, Honorary Members. 
Tlie, following presents were made to the Museum and Library. 
A Statue of Devi from Kumaoon, by Captain Vanzetti. The skin of an Emu. 
The tail and feathers of the Manula Sttperba, and a piece of net, of native fa- 
bric, from New South Wales, by Mr. R. M. Martin. For the Library: Anew 
edition of the Chrestomathie Arabe, and three other pamphlets, by the Baron 
Sylvestre De Sacy. Several Statistical works, by Mons. Cesar Moreau. A me- 
moir on the Sources of the Irrawadi and Brahmaputra rivers, by Mons. Kla- 
proth. Exposure of a lictitious translation of Confucius, by Schotts, from the 
pen of Lauterbach. Transactions of the Roval Asiatic Society, Parts 1 and 2, and 
Reports, Ac. by the Society. Parts 1 and 2 of the 7th volume of the Proceedings of 
the Horticultural Society. Journal Asiatique, for Februaiy, March, and April, by 
the. Asiatic Society oi Paris. Annual Report of the Proceedings of the Yorkshire 
Philosophical Society. Reports of the prevailing Diseases of the Kuropeans serving 
under the Madras Presidency, published by order of the Medical Board. Recueil 
des Voyages, by the Society tie Geographic of Paris. Momunens Celtiques, by Dr. 
Col Hodgson Meteorolo £ ,cal Register for September was presented by Lieut- 
The Fae-si niles of two inscriptions found in Malwa, with an account of the 
place where they were discovered, by Captain Franklin, were laid before the .Meet- 
mg, and some o : nervations upon them, by the Secretary. 
Some Remarks on the climate of various parts of the Himmalaya, by Captain 
Gerard, were referred to the Committee of Natural History and Science. 
P he Secretary laid before the Meeting, Reports on the Nilgherrv Mountains de- 
rived from the records of the Medical Board at Madras, with Observations on their 
meteorological features, communicated by Government. 
A Sketch of the Aborigines of New Holland, by Mr R M 
municated through Dr. Adam. * ' M Martm ’ was com * 
of 
Committee of JVatural History and Science . 
Inconsequence of resolutions passed at a special meeting of some of the mom hers 
the Asiatic bocietv: confirmed bv a suhs^mpm iL • , . , e m emoers 
2d January 1828, the’ ComTttK 
and encouragement of scientific enquiries, once moreiwumed ie CuItlV “ ,0 . U 
trusted, under such favourable circumstances as leaves little ..l. fj an '' 11 IS 
Considering one of the urincin il „i, , f ln ’ 0 m P; them a place in our pages, 
small power, to aid and assis/the • °" r r ' to ,e ’ the full extent of our 
originated this measure, we are desimos nTeri nu *' lL ' ''V the gentlemen who 
far back, to give a connected, but brief ’aLtr^v t U ‘ P eriod ,ioes uot extend 
above mentioned. Such a deta 1 will the . P™eedings from the date 
of the West: it will at least serve to “* interest *»* r brethren 
science, and what is theco " r »eand progress of Indian 
tension of its boundaries. g b en to so rational a project for the ex- 
to the cha g rgTof\bTcommUter metlt,oned ’ the blowing papers were transferred 
lying between the 6 S.It'aT l.v'r m" of ! h(> riin 'malava Mountains 
c 3-1 Larametnca! Measurements, from Bangalore to Cape Comorin, by Captain 
