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REPORT

OF THE

PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

ASIATIC SOCIETY

OF

GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND,

AT ITS

FIRST GENERAL MEETING,

ON

THE 15tu OF MARCH, 1823.

The first General Meeting of the Asiatic Society, having, in the original Prospectus, been fixed for the 15th of March, the Committee appointed for making the necessary arrangements, took measures to carry that intention into effect. Under the authority of a meeting of Original Members, a Circular Letter was issued, by which the General Meeting was convened. The letter communicated to the Members the business in which the meeting, on this day, would be engaged, being chiefly the election of a Council, and Officers, for the future administrations of the affairs