blue marl, underlying hard sand, gravel, and yellow sand, Specimens of Squalus Zygoena and Maximus-preseninclined at an angel of 45° in the low range of hills at ted by Mr. F. Shaw, of the Surveying Vessel Flora. the head of the Delhi Canal. A sketch of the strata accompanied.

A note from Mr. B. H. Hodgson called the Society's attention to a paper and drawing of a new species of Columba, submitted to the Society several years since, of which by some inadvertence no notice had been taken. A duplicate of the article was now furnished.

It appears that the bird is discribed as new by the Zoological Society in 1832, thus depriving the author here of the priority of discovery and publication.

Specimens of Cinnyris Mahrattensis and Rynchoa Capensis-presented by M. Bouchez.

A collection of skins of birds, of snakes, fishes, Crustacea and Mollusca-presented by Lieut Montriou, Indian Navy, and Mr. F. Shaw.

A collection of skins of bird-presented by W. D. Smith, Esq.

A memoir by Messrs. Falconer and Cautley, on the peculiarities of two new species of fossil Hippopotamus, found in Siwalik range, was read.

A series of Geological specimens from the Shekhawati country, were presented by Mr. Falconer.

A memoir on a Geological collection made in the country between Hyderabad and Nagpur, and presented to the Society by the collector, Dr. Malcolmson, with a

A specimen of Raia Thouriniana-presented by Cap- descriptive map, was submitted. - Journal of the Asiatic tain Lloyd, Indian Navy. Society for Jan.

AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF INDIA.

Wednesday, February 10, 1836.

This arrangement was considered amply compre

A General Meeting took place this morning at the hensive with reference to the large orders, now in course of fulfilment by private individuals, in virtue of previous Resolutions.

Town Hall.

THE HON'BLE SIR E. RYAN, PRESIDENT, IN THE CHAIR. The proceedings of the last meeting were read and confirmed.

Captain C. G. Dixon, Superintendent in Mhairwarrah, proposed last month, was duly elected a Member of the

Society.

The following gentlemen were proposed.

T. J. Turner, Esq., Commissioner, Bundlecund, proposed by Col. Dunlop, seconded by Mr. Bell; Charles Lyall, Esq., proposed by Mr. Piddington, seconded by Mr. S. Smith.

The Officiating Secretary laid upon the table 12 copies of the 2d volume of the Society's Transactions, which he had just received from the Serampore press, with a note from Mr. J. C. Marshman, proposing to undertake the editing of" Buchanan's Statistics."

Mr. Marshman conceives that all these valuable reports, if judiciously arranged, pruned of redundant matter, might be compressed within 800 octavo pages, and that 300 copies of such a work would cost 1,600 rupees.

Mr. Storm proposed that a trial should be made to introduce the Egyptian cotton.

for this purpose, and that the Officiating Secretary do take such measures, as will ensure a speedy sup

Resolved, That two hundred rupees be set aside

ply.

Mr Bell suggested, with reference to an Official letter which lay on the table, from Captain Sleeman, to the address of C. E. Trevelyan, Esq., Deputy Secretary to the Government of India, and generally to the growing enquiry of the Otaheite sugar-cane, that some prompt measures should be adopted to obtain a supply, from the Mauritius, for distribution throughout India. Mr. Henley, late of Bengal, now a resident in the Isle of France, had recently, while on a visit to Calcutta, tendered his services to the Society through the Officiating Secretary, in any way they might be available.

re

The Hon'ble Mr. Melville also kindly offered to communicate with a friend on the subject, and it was solved, that both these offers be accepted, and that the Officiating Secretary be authorized to go to a certain expense, for freight, &c. attending a regular se

Some difference of opinion prevailed as to whether the expense of publishing Statistics, came legitimately with-ries of supplies. in the sphere of the Society's views; but previous to taking the subject into further consideration, it was Mr. Kyd noticed that the shipment of canes should deemed expedient to consult Mr. Jas. Prinsep-and be arranged, so as to ensure their arrival in Calcutta beMr. Piddington undertook to see that gentleman- tween the months of March and May. when the Society would be better prepared to dispose of the question.

The President directed the attention of the Meeting to the discussion which took place last month, regarding the establishing a regular channel through which the Society might confidently look for cotton seed; and with special reference to a proposal, which had been submitted by His Excellency Sir H. Fane, it was unanimously

Resolved, That the Commander-in-Chief be solicited to write to Mr. Thomson, President of the Board of Trade, and to express the great anxiety felt by the Society, to have a direct channel opened, in order to secure a regular supply of fresh cotton seed from America, and that a letter of credit be given to the extent of one thousand rupees annually, to meet such provision.

Further. That the whole amount he invested in the description of seed termed " Upland Georgia."

The Secretary laid upon the table, lists of the names of mallies to whom medals and rewards had been given at the exhibitons of vegetables which took place on the 20th ult. and 3rd instant.

Some notes were handed to the Officiating Secretary by the Hon'ble Mr. Melville, proposing amendments for the consideration of the Committee, on the subject of prize vegetables.

The following communications were read, viz.

No. 1.-From Captain W. H. Sleeman, General Superintendent, to the address of C. E. Trevelyan, Esq., Deputy Secretary to the Government of India, dated Camp Kirowlee, January 6th, 1836, enclosing copy of a letter from Captain Ouseley in charge of Houshungabad district, under date the 10th August,

1834.

Captain Ouseley states that the India-corn received on the 16th March had been sown every

5. From James Prinsep, Esq., dated 2d February, forwarding two volumes of the transactions of the Philo-to the S. W. of Ava. sophical Society of Geneva, presented to the Agricultural Society of India.

6. From W. Bruce, Esq., of Calcutta, dated 1st February, presenting in the name of Captain Jenkins, a bag of cotton, sent to the latter, by M. Hugon, who states it to be produced at Nowgong from American seed.

7. From G. T. Hodgkinson, Esq., dated 2d February, presenting to the Society, a bag of vine cotton seed, and a few ginger roots, both received from Jamaica via Liverpool; also, two pots of clover, grown at Akra from English seed, accompanied by two bottles of the seeds for distribution to any gentleman who may be desirous 13. From Capt. Sage to the Officiating Secretary, to give it a trial on a large scale, together with some cas-dated the 26th January, calling for a copy of the Sociesava roots introduced here. ty's proceedings of the 12th August last, relating to the Dinapore Branch Society.

minute was drawn up by Capt. Sage and Mr. Piddington den at Dinapore-when the meeting being desirous of conjointly, and the officiating Secretary was ordered to removing such an impression as the paragraph might be give it a place in the proceedings of the Society. calculated to produce, and being wholly ignorant of the Viz.-"Capt. Sage called to the notice of the meet-transactions referred to, expressed itself as far from wishing the paragraph relative to the Dinapore Branch So-ing to attribute any thing in the way of personal interest ciety, from the published proceedings of the Society of to Capt. Sage, who had been the Secretary to the Branch India, of the 12th August, 1825, stating the question to Society for six years." be one" unconnected with Agricultural pursuits," which was calculated to mislead those unacquainted with the subject of the resumption of the Branch Society's Gar

JOHN BELL, Officiating Secretary.

Town Hall, Calcutta, 10th Feb. 1836.-Hurkaru.

MEDICAL AND PHYSICAL SOCIETY.

Proceedings of a Meeting of the Medical and Phy-On dissection, the pericardium was found to be filled sical Society of Calcutta, held at the Asiatic Society's with coagulated blood produced by the rupture of the aneursim abovementioned. Apartments, 6th February.

MEMBERS ELECTED.

Mr. R. O'Shaughnessy and Mr. E. W. W. Raleigh, proposed at the last Meeting.

Letters from the following gentlemen were then read. From E. T. Harpur. Esq., Surgeon 55th Regt. N. I.; A. Macqueen, Esq., Surgeon H. M.'s 3d Buffs, andJ. Anderson, Esq., Bombay, requesting that their names might be withdrawn from the Society.

From W. Bell, Esq., enclosing a specimen of friable calculus successfuly extracted by him."

From Messrs. Beckwith and Co. of Bombay, forwarding the Society's account current, and a hoondie for 248-13-8, being the balance of last year's account.

From Thomas Oxley, Esq., forwarding two preparations for the Society's Museum with a description of the same, viz.

No 1-A portion of the left ventricle and a couple of inches of the aorta slit open, shewing an aneurism of one of the pouches of morgagni.

The worms were found in a terrier bitch about 3 years old, which had been ailing for some time before her death, exhibiting great restlessness and dejection of spirits. The heart was hypertrofied and the worms which were forwarded, were discovered in considerable quantity in the heart twined around the columnae carnece and the great vessels, some even in the minute branches of the pulmonary artery. They were small string-like bodies, possessing but little vitality.

A specimen of stony concretion found in the stomach of a cow, was presented for the museum by J. Hutchinson, Esq., on behalf of the Medical Board.

The following communications were then presented. A paper on purulent discharges from the bladder and rectum in hepatic diseases, by J. Mouat, Esq., Surgeon H. M.'s 13th Dragoons.

belonging to the genus noja, by Dr. Cantor.

Sketch of an undescribed species of venomous serpent

Cases of sickness prevailing among the sepoys at Agra,

No. 2.-Specimens of worms found in the heart, with reports of the medical officers attached to the various detachments affected, presented by the Medical pulmonary artery and aorta of a dog. Board. W. H. GOODEve,

The subject of the first case was a convict who was said to have received a kick in the scrotum from one of his companions, upon which he immediately expired.

Secretary Medical and Physical Society.-Hurkaru.

LITERARY SOCIETY AND AUXILIARY OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY.

The Annual Meeting of the Literary Society and Auriliary of the Royal Asiatic Society on the 30th January attracted to its interesting proceedings no less than9 members! The President, Sir Robert Company, filled the chair, and the Rev. Mr. Spring performed the duties of Secretary.

The chief business of the meeting was passing the accounts of the preceding year and filling up vacancies in the Committee. The former were satisfactory, shewing that notwithstanding the unaccountable apathy of our Literati, the Society still possess an annual income of above 4,000 rupees; and in the latter the selections were judicious. Colonel Cullen, Captain Rowlandson and Dr. Malcolmson went out of the Committee by rotation-the first desired to remain out, Capt. Rowlandson was reelected, and the vacant places filled up by the Venerable Archdeacon Harper and Mr. Minchin-Mr. Harper, pledged his best exertions to impart a Literary tone to the Society, in place of the solitary reputation as a Book Club is at present enjoyed, and the Honorable President expressed his willingness to give at all times to the Committee the benefit of his valuable co-operation

in their labours. We congratulate the public upon the general disposition that was evinced, to assist and encour age the extraction of its full measures of Literary and Scientific good from what ought naturally to prove such abundant material as the resources of this Society-the assembled body it is true was but small, yet the little rushlight may, and we hope will, excite a broad blaze, and the members at large rally around the symptoms of rekindling animation. It is in this hope we would let by gones be by gones and refrain now from comment on the non-assembling of Committee, which was avowed in the course of the meeting.

In deference (though rather unnecessary) to the absent majority, specific resolutions were not come to; but the members of Committee present, in what transpired, stand pledged to two useful steps-the one removing from Messrs. Parbury, Allen and Co. the choice of Books to be despatched from England for the Society, and which duty it is hoped that Mr. Clark will undertake, and the other, to appoint an expurgating Committee, for inspection of the regular stock of Books, and

to discard that mass of rubbish in the shape of trumpery and vigorous operations, will press upon the earenst atnovels, &c. which has too long disgraced the shelves of tention of Government the able suggestions of our corthe Society's Library, and which Messrs. PARBURY and respondent Philosophicust' in reference to exemption of Co.'s diligence only keeps on the increase.

Au rest we may observe that the Journal in a pecuniary point of view appears to be a losing concern; but we trust that the Committee, when entering on active

such work from postage. The abovementioned fact, is to a certain extent, evidence of its paralyzing effect, and the incontestably useful object of publications of this nature should surely plead with a loud voice for a removal of the obstruction.-Madras Herald.

BOMBAY BRANCH OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SCOIETY.

The monthly meeting of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, was held in the Society's Rooms, on Wednesday, the 27th January.

The ordinary business of the meeting having been

transacted.

the accomplishment of the work, furnished in Bombay, should not remain unembraced. Much light still requires to be cast on the popular superstitions, and domestie manners of the Zoroastrians in India; and versions of the narratives which they have of their early settlement in this country, should be presented to the oriental translaThe President proceeded, agreeably to an intimation tion fund. At a late meeting to the Committee of Corgiven at the last meeting, to take a review of the past respondence of the Royal Asiatic Society, some of the proceedings of the Society, and of some of the various more liberal natives in Bombay had been invited, on subjects of inquiry, especially connected with the west the proposal of Sir Alexander Johnson, to form themselves of India, which still invite consideration. He first refer- into an association with the view of collecting information red to the topics adverted to in the discourse delivered at on some of the topics to which he (Mr. W.) had referthe formation of the Society by Sir James Mackintosh. red. Little, he feared, however, could be expected from He (Mr. Wilson) expressed his regret that on the them without the co-operation of European scholars; subject of Natural History, the transactions of the and he was consequently decidedly of opinion, that should Society contain very few communications. The study, any of the Pársîs of competent attainments and zeal, and he observed, being directly conversant with the works respectable character and influence, ask memberships of of God, is, in all circumstances, possessed of the highest this Society, it should be readily accorded. interest, and conduces both in intellectual gratification, With regard to the Musalmans, the researches of the and moral improvement; and in such a country as In- Society, he conceived, had been most important. The dia, so vast in its extent, and grand and multifarious in question-so interesting in the history of the errors of the its productions, it is possessed of peculiar charms. The human mind-was Muhammed an impostor or an enthusojourners in Bombay have in the mountains and for- siast, had been discussed with ingenuity by Colonel Vans ests, and islands in the neighbourhood, innumerable ob- Kennedy. The same distinguished orientalist had furjects, connected especially with Geology, Botany and nished us with a correct estimate of the literature of the Zoology, which allure attention, both from their com- Musalmans in Persia, and a lucid and minute abstract parative novelty and intrinsic interest. The report of of the Muhammedan Municipal Law, a jurisprudence observation and discovery connected with them would hitherto greatly overlooked, but of much importance. form an agreeable recreation even to those who may The distinctions between the Shias and Sunnis had been be most ardent and persevering in their researches into well illustrated by Sir John Malcolm; and the opithe other important objects of the Society's investigation. nions of the Sufis and Mehdivis, by Lieut. Graham, and On the subject of Statistics, he repeated the opinion ex- Col. Miles, Mr. Ross and Mr. Frissel, had contributed pressed by Sir James Mackintosh, that they form the to the elucidation of the Mussalman Ethics. What we data of Political Economy; and adverted to the several chiefly want in reference to the Mahammedan religion, notices given in the Transactions, and in the publications is a fuller account of the state of Arabic at the time of of the Royal Asiatic Society, &c. by Dr. Marshall, its origin, of the history of its religious influence, distinCoates, and Bird, Captain Jervis, and Lieut. Burnes, guished as much as possible from that of the military exand in connextion with them to a paper by Mr. Bruce, of ploits and civil arrangements of its followers, which have the Civil Service, on the application of the principles of hitherto almost altogether engrossed attention; of the gePolitical Economy, as received in Europe, to the state neral arguments by which its doctors have urged its preof India.

The present condition of the people in the different provinces in regard to language, religion, literature, science and art, means of support, and manners and customs, was next adverted to, as the paramount object of the Society's investigation.

In reference to the Parsis be noticed the illustrations of their history and chronology furnished by Sir John Malcolm and Colonel Kennedy; and of their religion and sacred books by Messrs. Erskin, Rask, Mohl, Shea, Neumann, and Atkinson, in their learned essays, or translations, from the oriental languages. The curiosity of the public respecting them, he remarked, however, is far from being satisfied, as is evident from the enquiries which frequently reach this place both from London and Paris. He had great hopes, that professor Burnoul's attempt to furnish a faithful translation of the Vendidád Sádé would be successful. Should that great scholar fail, from the disadvantages of his situation in Europe, the facilities for

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tensions in opposition to Christianity: of the Bohoras and other curious sectaries; and of the peculiar practices, superinduced upon it in this country by intercourse both with the speculative and superstitious Hindús. The illustrations of this last point furnished by Col. Kennedy, M. Garcin de Tassy, and Dr. Herklots-were respectively noticed, and also the works on Indian history, furnished by the Muhammedans, and translated by ColBriggs, Capt. Rowlandson, and Dr. Bird.

After noticing, separately, the various tribes of the Hindú of which there are accounts in the transactions of the Society, he observed that there are still many who require to be described. Those resident in the jungles, and mountainous districts, and who are probably the remains of the aborigines of the country, he considered particularly worthy of attention. He then noticed the exertions of the Society, and its members, for the elucidation of the Hindú religion and literature. The Society was the first body which had proposed a union for the promotion of translations from Sanskrit; and it had en

to be cast.

couraged the printing of the Lilavati, and Prabodh Chan- those at Kánadí in Salsette were very similar to them. droday. Major E. Moor was the first to publish a ge- The caves of Násik and Junar, &c. and the temples of neral account of the Hindú Pantheon. In Col. Kenne- Abu, Pálíáná, and Girnár, require to be particularly dy's treatise on the Ancient and Hindú Mythology, and described. The ancient grants of land were next to in his essay on the Vendanta, we have very valuable them in importance. One had been translated by the late quotations from the Shastras, and learned disquisitions. Dr. Taylor; and Mr. Wathen had been successful in Nothing more important, in a literary and philosophical decyphering and translating the most ancient of those in point of view, as yet appeared on the subjects of which the Society's museum; and the results were both curious they treat. In Bombay, two defences of Hinduism, the and useful. The ancient coins found to the northward, first published by natives, had appeared and been refuted. promised to be useful in a Chronological point of view, Here was published a translation of the largest portion of as had been well evinced by Mr. Prinsep, of Calcut'a. the Rig-Veda yet presented to the curiosity of Europe. The small bodies of Beni-Isarel, and Armenians in A translation of the whole of this work, to which he believ- Bombay, were briefly referred to. A dissertation by one ed Prof. H. H. Wilson had returned his attention, and of of the latter, on the antiquity of their native language, the Bhagavata Purana the greatest practical authority with notes by Mr. Dickinson, had been sent to the Royin the west of India, were desiderata. On the various al Asiatic Society, and could not fail to be acceptable. sects of the Hindus, and on their provincial superstitions, There cannot be a doubt, it was remarked, that the Arand on the religion of the Jainas much light is required menians can fill up important blanks in Church History, He concluded his remarks on this subject by which, to the undue neglect of the Orientals, is principally expressing his hope, that there are among the members formed on the authority of the Roman and Ryzantine of the Society those who will continue to contribute, as circumstances may call them, to the exposition of the different systems of faith which exercise their sway in this In conclusion, the researches of Malcolm, Pottinger, country; by pointing out the benefits of research connec- Richard and Burnes, &c. in the countries adjacent to Inted with them, to all who wish to understand the native dia, were noticed; and the hope was expressed that the character, and to obtain a right key to the native mind, Society will maintain the character which it has earned and desirable facilities for the introduction into the coun- for itself, and prove not unworthy of its incorporation with try of a body of rational and equitable law, the propa- the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, gation of the Gospel and the advancement of general- an incorporation which notwithstanding some disadvaneducation; and by urging the speedy collection of Shan- tages, must be admitted to be beneficial, as it secures skrita MSS. in the Decan, where they are to be found that literary sympathy and communication which is great in a purer state than in any other part of India. He then to be valued, and the circulation of the papers of the adverted to the general subject of Hindú antiquities, and members in a convenient form, throughout the world. noticed in particular the descriptions which have been furnished of the excavations of Elephanta, Salsette, El- It has then proposed by Mr. Bruce, seconded by Mr. lora, Bág and Ajanta and which, though a few errors and Farish, and resolved unanimously-That the thanks of oversights may be detected in them, are very valuable. the Meeting be offered to the President for his very inMr. Erskine's papers take the precedence in importance. terresting and valuable address, and that he be requested Mr. Stevenson had been successful, to a great extent, to allow it to be printed, that copies may be circulated in decyphering the ancient inscriptions at Káralí; and to each member of the Society.-Bombay Courier,

Fathers.

MEETING OF THE PRIVATE FRIENDS OF THE LATE MR. PALMER.

A Meeting of the private friends of the late Mr. Pal- be executed by one of the best British Sculptors. It was mer took place at the Town Hall on the 16th February, understood that, if the funds raised considerably exceeded pursuant to the invitation of Sir Charles D'Oyly. But the expense of a bust, another meeting should be called, as the meeting was expressly declared to be private, we to decide whether a statue should not be ordered instead do not feel at liberty to make further use of our notes of, or a portrait in addition to, the bust. than to say that it was decided to raise a subscription to defray the expense of a marble bust of the deceased to

Messrs. Cockerell and Co. were appointed treasurers.
Hurkaru.

MEETING OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE DISTRICT CHARITABLE SOCIETY.

A meeting of the Central Committee of the District Charitable Society was held at the Town Hall on the 8th February, pursuant to advertisement, for the purpose of electing office-bearers and transacting general business. The President, Sir Edward Ryan, was in the Chair.

The office-bearers of the last year were re-elected with the addition of two Vice-Presidents, Sir B. Malkin and C. H. Cameron, Esq. The President, in requesting that Captain Birch would continue to act as Secretary, expressed the high sense the Committee entertained of the very important services that gentleman had rendered to the Society, in which just tribute all who take interest in is success must fully concur.

The Secretary read the Report of the Society for the past year, which will be published in a few days, for the information of Members, or we should have solicited permission to give it entire in our pages, notwithstanding its length, so highly do we estimate the value of its object and so desirous are we that the public should be made fully acquainted with them, which we are sure is all that is necessary to ensure the extensive support requisite to give full effect to the Society's humane labors.

The Report notices the great liberality of Lord and Lady William Bentinck and of Sir Charles Metcalferegrets that, with a few honorable exceptions, all

but