Proceedings of the Seventeenth Anniversary Meeting of the Society, held on the 9th of May, 1840 : the Right Hon. C.W. Williams Wynn, M.P., President, in the chair.

  • Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
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[1840]
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Credit: Proceedings of the Seventeenth Anniversary Meeting of the Society, held on the 9th of May, 1840 : the Right Hon. C.W. Williams Wynn, M.P., President, in the chair. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    H. S. Gr^ ME, Es(|. rnov0(], tlift tlicinksof lliG SociGty Ijg rcturnGfi to tliG Auditors; and that thoir Roport, togGther with that of tliG Council, be rGCGivGd, and printed in the Society's Proceedings.” The motion was seconded by Dr. Horsfield, and carried unanimously. The Right Hon. Sir Alexander Johnston, as Chairman of the Committee of Correspondence, gave to the Meeting an interesting and comprehensive resume of the scientific and literary operations prosecuting in every part of Asia; to which, and the inquiries connected with their progress and effects, the attention of the Society should be directed. Sir Edward Colebrooke, after expressing the pleasure which he had received in hearing the luminous sketch which had been given by Sir Alexander Johnston, of the various operations interesting to history, literature, and science, which were in progress in various parts of the East; and adverting'to the zeal and anxiety always manifested by the Right Hon. Chairman of the Committee of Correspondence to draw the attention of the Members of the Society to every matter which might increase our knowledge of the East; and improve our means of advancing the welfare of our fellow subjects in India, moved, “That the thanks of the Society be voted to the Right Hon. Chairman of the Committee of Correspondence; and that he be requested to reduce his observations to writing, for the purpose of being printed in the Society's Proceedings.” Sir James Alexander seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously. Colonel Sykes having expressed his great regret at the absence of Colonel Barnewall, the Chairman of the Committee of Commerce and Agri- culture, to whose zeal and exertions the Committee owed much of the pro- gress they had made, proceeded to read the following summary of their Proceedings:— PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE OF AGRICULTURE AND COMMERCE. Since the last Anniversary Meeting of the Society, this Committee has embraced the investigation of several matters, very important to the trade and agriculture of India, and the commerce and manufactures of England. Various inquiries are still in progress, which it will take time to complete, and which, in the result, are expected to be very beneficial. To enter more fully upon them in this Report, would be but to anticipate the record of the Committee's Transactions. It will be sufficient to notice brieflv, the most important of the matters that have engaged the Committee’s attention. The Committee have received several valuable communications respect- ing Cotton Wool. Foremost of these is a paper by Major-General