Nouvelles Recherches sur l'Apparition et la Dispersion des Bohémiens en Europe, par Paul Battaillord. Paris, 1849. 8vo. (Pamphlet).—BY THE AUTHOR. Harivansa, ou Histoire de la famille de Hari, traduit sur la original Sanskrit, par M. A. Langlois. 2nd Livraison. Paris, 1836. 4to.-BY Rev. J. WENGER. Journal of the Indian Archepelago. Vol. IV. No. II.—BY THE Editor. Two copies of the same.-BY THE GOVERNMENT OF BENGAL. Upadeshaka, No. 40.-BY THE EDITOR. The Calcutta Christian Observer, for April 1850.—BY THE EDITORs. The Oriental Baptist, No 40.-BY THE EDITOR. Trignometrical Survey Maps, Nos. 69, 70, 89.—BY THE GOVT. OF INDIA. Meteorological Register kept at the Surveyor General's Office, Calcutta, for the month of February 1850.-BY THE DEPUTY SURVEYOR GENERAL. Amherst as a Sanatarium. By E. Ryley, Esq. Calcutta, 1850, (Pamphlet). -BY THE AUTHOR. Tattwabodhini Patriká, No. 75.-BY THE TATTWABODHINI' SABHA'. EXCHANGED. Journal of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India. Vol. VII. Part I. PURCHASED. The Edinburgh Review. No. 183. FOR MAY, 1850. The usual monthly meeting of the Asiatic Society was held on the 1st of May, 1850. WELBY JACKSON, Esq., Vice-President, in the chair. The proceedings of the last meeting were read and confirmed. From C. W. Montrou, Esq., Superintendent of the Observatory at Colaba, forwarding a copy of the Magnetical and Meteorological Observations made at that Observatory during the year 1846. From H. V. Bailey, Esq., Officiating Under Secretary to the Government of Bengal, enclosing copy of a letter addressed to the Military Board, respecting the repairs of the Adinah Masjid. From C. Gubbins, Esq., C. S., transmitting 12 old copper coins, found in the district of Meerut. From the Librarian, Bábu Rájendralál Mittra, submitting the subjoined note respecting the coins presented by Mr. Gubbins. The analogoes of these coins have been figured by Mr. Thomas, in his Patan Coins of India, figs. 167-8, with which the present specimens agree in rudeness of execution, and in their general appearance. They belong to the period of Sekundar Shah Behlol, who succeeded to the throne of Delhi on the death of his father Behloli Lodi, in 894 A. H., A. C. 1488. The die with which they have been struck having been larger than the coins themselves, it is difficult to decypher the legend, but the comparison of several specimens leaves no doubt on the subject. The coins are of different mintage and dates, and vary in weight from 142 to 148 grains—a difference easily accountable in copper coins nearly four hundred years old. On the obverse, in Mr. Thomas's specimens, the phrases follows the word lklw, but no trace of it can be found on the specimens under examination. Obverse. المتوكل الرحمن سكندر شاه بهلول شاه سلطان (date) ۹۱۷۹۱۶,۹۱۵۹۰۳ 919 (or) 1^, Reverse. في زمن اميرالمومنين خلدت خلافته ११, From Dr. E. Roer, Secretary to the Oriental Section, recommending on the part of the Section, that an English translation of the Ch'handogya Upanishad submitted by Bábu Rájendralál Mittra, be printed in the Bibliotheca Indica. The Oriental Section having neglected to record their opinion on the subject, ordered that it be referred to the Section for their opinion. A copy of Dr. Hooker's Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya was presented by the Hon'ble the President, on behalf of the author, for which the thanks of the Society were voted. Read a letter from Dr. O'Shaughnessy, dated the 15th of April, sending his resignation of the office of Secretary to the Society. To the Hon'ble Sir JAMES COLVILE. President to the Asiatic Society. HON'BLE SIR,-Additional duties having devolved upon me in the Mint, and a trial Electric Telegraph having been ordered-the Construction of which I have to Superintend; it becomes impracticable for me to continue in charge of the Office of Secretary to the Asiatic Society. I have therefore to request that you will communicate my resignation to the Council and the Society at large. In the interval between this and the next meeting I will make every arrangement for clearing off any arrears of business and correspondence, so as to facilitate the duties of my successor, to whom it will afford me great pleasure to give every assistance in my power on his taking charge of the Office. I have the honor to remain, W. B. O'SHAUGHNESSY, V. P. and Secy. As. Soc. Calcutta Mint, 15th April, 1850. It was unanimously resolved, that this meeting, while it receives with regret the resignation of Dr. O'Shaughnessy, desires to express its grateful sense of the valuable services which, as senior Secretary, he has so long rendered to the Asiatic Society of Bengal; and that the Secretary communicate the sentiments of the Society as above expressed to the late Secretary; and that it be published in the Journal. Read a report of the Council of the Society, recommending the appointment of Capt. F. C. C. Hayes to succeed Dr. O'Shaughnessy as Secretary: the report is as follows: At a meeting of the Council held on the 19th of April, 1850. Present. THE HON'BLE SIR JAMES COLVILE, President. W. B. JACKSON, Esq. Vice-President. W. SETON KARR, ESQ. The President stated that since the circulation of Dr. O'Shaughnessy's letter of the 15th of April, 1850, he had ascertained that Capt. Fletcher Hayes was willing to be put in nomination for the office of Secretary. Wherefore it was resolved unanimously That Capt. Fletcher Hayes be proposed by the Council to the next general meeting of the Society for election as Joint Secretary of the Asiatic Society of Bengal in the room of W. B. O'Shaughnessy, Esq., M. D., resigned. The meeting unanimously approved of the nomination of the Council. Confirmed, 3rd June, 1850, J. W. COLVILE, President. FLETCHER HAYES, Secretary. LIBRARY. The following books have been received since the last meeting. PRESENTED. The Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himálaya, being an account, Botanical and Geographical, of the Rhododendrons recently discovered in the mountains of Eastern Himálaya, from drawings and descriptions made on the spot, during a Government Botanical Mission to that country; by Joseph Dalton Hooker, R. N. Edited by Sir J. W. Hooker, K. H.-PRESENTED BY THE AUTHOR, THROUGH HON'BLE SIR J. W. COLVILE. Notes of a tour in the Plains of India, the Himalaya, and Borneo; being extracts from private letters of Dr. J. D. Hooker. Part II. Calcutta to Darjiling. London 1849, 8vo.-BY THE SAME. Observations made at the Magnetical and Meteorological Observatory at Bombay; in the year 1846. Printed under the superintendence of A. B. Orlebar, Esq. Bombay 1849. 4to.-BY THE GOVERNMENT OF BOMBAY. An Historical Account of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich. London 1789. 4to.-By Babu RA'JENDRALAʼL MITTRA. A short Life of the Apostle Paul, in Sanskrit verse. Calcutta 1850. 13mo. (2 copies). By J. MUIR, Esq., C. S. Meteorological Register kept at the Surveyor General's Office, Calcutta, for the month of March 1850.-BY THE DEPUTY SURVEYOR GENERAL. Tattwabodhini Patriká, No. 81.-BY THE TATTWABODHINI' SABHA'. Journal of the Indian Archipelago for March 1850.-BY THE EDITOR. Two copies of the same.-BY THE GOVERNMENT OF BENGAL. The Oriental Christian Spectator, for February 1850.-BY THE EDITOR. PURCHASED. Journal des Savánts for December 1849. The North British Review, No. 24. Annals and Magazine of Nat. History for February, 1850. To the Secretary of the Asiatic Society. SIR,-I have the honour to present the following report of donations made to the Zoological Department of the Society's Museum during the months of March and April. 1. From Dr. Kelaart, Staff Asst. Surgeon, Newera Elia. A small collection of birds' skins from that locality, comprising several undescribed species. 2. Lt. James, N. I. Sellections from a collection of skins of Mammalia and Birds, made in Kunáwar, Kashmir, and Tibet. 3. Bábu Rajendra Mallika. Specimens of Lemur niger, Geoffroy, and Gazella subgutturosa, female; also carcass of a female Nilgai. 4. Mr. Moxon, of the Pilot Service. Some fine examples of Larus icthyäetus, Pallas, and skeleton of this bird and of Onichoprion anasthœtus. 5. Mr. W. Driver. Carcass of an adult female Hylobates hoolock. 6. Mr. G. K. Rode. Caterpiller of an Acherontia. 7. Mr. Muller. 3 species of Ophidia, from Darjeling. 8. Capt. Sherwill. A few shells from the vicinity of Rajmahal. 9. Capt. Thos. Brodie. Skin with horns of apparently a large female of the animal described by Mr. Hodgson in No. XXXVII. (N. S.) of the Society's Journal, by the name Budorcas taxicolor. N. B. Various skins of this species have at various times been presented to the Society, by Major Jenkins, and Capt. E. L. Smith of Sadiya; but only one, a female, in a fit condition to be set up, which has been mounted. I had postponed describing it until I could obtain a perfect skull; and may here remark that I believe its affinities to be strictly Caprine, with little relation either to the Bovine group or to the Gnoos (Catoblepas), notwithstanding the very remarkable form of the horns. I have the honour to be, Sir, Date. Meteorological Register kept at the Surveyor General's Office, Calcutta, for the Month of April, 1850. 123456 29.854 77.0 77.5 75.2 N. W. Cirro-strati 29.915 87.0 85.9 78.2 S. W. Cirro-strati 29.882 91.0 90.4 79.4 S. W. Cumuli .865 73.0 73.3 70.0 .932 76.8 77.0 74.0 .948 78.0 78.5 76.3 S. Cirro-cumuli .916 86.3 86.8 75.2 S. W. Ditto .879 93.2 92.7 75.3 W.S. W. Cirro-strati S. W. Cloudy 30.015 88.3 88.3 76.2 N. W. Cirro-cumuli .986 93.3 93.0 73.8 N. E. Ditto S. W. Cirro-strati 29.971 89.2 88.0 77.8 S. Cirro-strati .917 93.8 93.3 78.0 S. W. Ditto .991 85.8 85.0 73.4 W.NW. Ditto .950 91.7 91.3 75.0 S. W. Ditto 30.037 88 7 86.9 72.0 N.N. W. Clear 30.003 92.0 91.2 73.9 N.N. W. Cirro-cumuli N. W. Clear 29.930 90.0 89.4 74.9 W. Ditto 29.884 94.4 94.4 74.7 W. Cirro-strati N.W.sp. Cloudy .854 86.7 85.5 72.3 N. .870 88.0 87.0 76.7 S. E. Clear .825 93.1 92.8 76.4 S. W. Cloudy |