Proceedings of the Committee of Commerce and Agriculture / Royal Asiatic Society.

  • Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Committee of Agriculture and Commerce
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[1840]
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Credit: Proceedings of the Committee of Commerce and Agriculture / Royal Asiatic Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    June the 1st, 1839. A Committee was held this day at one o’clock. The Right Hon» Holt Mackenzie in the Chair. An extract was read from the minutes of the Council of the Society, dated the 2nd of May, stating, that the Council had nominated the following gentlemen Members of the Committee for the ensuing year: The Hon. Mountstuart Elphinstone, Colonel Galloway, Major- General Briggs, the Right. Hon. H. Ellis, Sir Charles Forbes, Bart., Josiah Heath, Esq., and F. C. Brown, Esq. The three first being Members of Council, and the latter elected out of the Society. The Committee resolved to add to the list of Members of the Committee, nominated by the Council, the names of the following gentlemen : James Alexander, Esq., H. Blanshard, Esq., G. Colquhoun, Esq., Sir R. Campbell, John Forbes, Esq., J. Fraser, Esq., G. G. de H. Larpent, Esq., J. G. Malcolmson, ~Esq., Colonel Sykes, and H. Wilkinson, Esq. Mr .* I The Chairman stated to the Qfihimittee, that ih the course of the present year he intended to proceed to the Continent, and that he should, in consequence, be unable to continue to preside at the meetings of the Committee. He therefore moved that Colonel Barnewall be invited to take the chair for the ensuing year. This motion was seconded by Major-General Briggs, and unanimously carried. A letter was read from J. Stikeman, Esq., Secretary to the London East India and China Association, to Mr. Solly, enclosing a list of nearly forty specimens of the productions of the Punjaub and Mysore, lately received from the Bombay Chamber of Commerce, and proposing to forward samples of any such as were new, or but little known, for examination and analysis. A paper was read on the manufacture of paper, in the Province of Datee, by George Traill, Esq. Paper is manufactured in the Province of Datee, from the inner bark of the Daphne cannahina, or Set Burroah, a tree which abounds throughout the Himalaya Range. For this purpose the outer surface of the bark is scraped off, and the inner fibrous part is boiled in an alkaline lye made of oak ashes. The fibre is by this process bleached, and it is then washed and beat up into a pulp, and being again mixed with clean water, is spread upon moulds. These are usually made with fine bamboo matting; but when large b 2
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