PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



For January, 1894. 



The Monthly Greneral Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was 

 held on Wednesday, the 3rd January, 1894, at 9 v. M. 



C. J. Ltall, Esq., M.A., LL.D., C.S.T., C I.E., 



Vice-President, in the chair. 



The following Members were present : — 



A. A. Caspersz, Esq,, Banawarilal Chaudhuri, Esq., Babn Gyanen- 

 dra Kumar Rai Chaudhuri, Babu Sarat Chandra Das, B. De, Esq., His 

 Grace The Most Rev. Dr. Paul Goethals, G. A. Grierson, Esq., Dr. A. 

 F. R. Hoernle, Sarat Chandra Lahari, Esq., C. Little, Esq., Kumar 

 Rameshwar Maliah, C. D. Mangos, Esq., L. de Niceville, Esq., A. Pedler, 

 Esq., C. R. Wilson, Esq., The Rev. H. Whitehead. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



Nineteen presentations were announced, details of which are o-jyen 

 in the Library List appended. 



The Secretary reported the death of the following Members : — 

 E. O'Brien, Esq., C. S. (Ordinary Member). 



Major-General Sir A. Cunningham, K. C. I. E., C. S. I. (Hono- 

 rary Member). 



Dr. a. F. R. Hoernle read an obituary notice of the death of 

 Major-General Sii" Alexander Cunningham : — 



The Society has sustained the loss of one of its most distino-nished 

 members in the death, on the 28th November last, of Major-General 

 Sir Alexander Cunningham, the news of which was received early in 

 December. He was born in London in 1814, the son of a distin- 



