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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    ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY. PROCEEDINGS OF THK 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, THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL WAS READ AS FOLLOWS : — It is with considerable satisfaction that the Council can open their Report on the Proceedings of the past year by stating that the expenditure of the Society has continued to be kept considerably within the receipts;' and that, having thus recovered from the state of financial difficulty into which they had fallen, the funds will now allow of the publication in the present year of two Numbers of the Journal. It is right, however, to qualify the satisfac- tion which at first arises from observing so large a balance in hand at the close of the last year s account as 407/., by remarking that the actual sur- plus of the receipts above the expenditure is only 111/., which is not equal to the cost of the second Number of the Journal proposed to be published in 1840. The state of the funds, if viewed in reference to their economical management, must be, on the whole, gratifying; but if the operations of the Society are crippled for want of larger means ; if its Library is so en- tirely dependent on the contributions of Societies, and of individual Mem- bers, that no branch of Oriental inquiry can be made complete on its shelves for the use of its Members, or of Oriental scholars, or persons engaged in the prosecution of researches into the civil and natural history, geography, antiquities, and products of Asia, or even of India alone; if collections of various kinds which would be given to enrich its Museum are withheld by the possessors, or refused by the Society, because there is not room where to lay them out and exhibit them, and there are not means to procure b