78 Library, [April, 



short inscription dated in the seventh of his reign. His successor 

 Dharmapala, who came to the throne about 830 A. D., has hitherto 

 also been represented by a single Epigraph at Bodh Graya, the contents 

 of which give ns little information. The present copper-plate grant 

 which has been found by Mr. Umes Chandra Batabyal close to the 

 ancient city of Gaur, and in which Dharmapala makes a grant of certain 

 land, was therefore of more than usual importance. The plate carries 

 our knowledge of the Pala family two degrees above that of Gopala. 

 Mr. Batabyal reads the name of the grantee as Bhattanarayana, which 

 is the same as that of one of the five Brfihmans brought into Bengal 

 by Adi ^iira. If it is the same Bhattanarayana, then the question of the 

 date of Adi ^ura may be taken as approximately fixed, and we may be 

 certain that Adi ^ura preceded, instead of following, the Pala dynasty. 



There has not been sufficient time yet to have the plate examined 

 by experts, but a full account of it will be published in the Journal 

 in due course. 



3. Novicife Indicse VII. Description of a new Meconopsis from 

 8ikki7n,—B7j D. Prain, Esq., M.B. 



4. NovicifB Indicfe VIII. Sojue additional species of Convolvulacese, 

 —Bi/ D. Prain, Esq., M.B. 



The pnpcrs will be published in the Journal, Part II. 



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IBRARY. 



The following additions have been made to the Libi'ary since the 

 meeting held in March last : — 



Transactions, Proceedings, and Journals, 



presented hy the respective Societies and Editors. 



Baltimore. Johns Hopkins University, — Circulars, Vol. XIII, No. 109. 

 Bombay. Bombay Natural History Society, — Journal, Vol. VIII, No. 3. 



The Indian Antiquary,— Vol. XXIII, Part 283. 



Calcutta. G-eological Survey of India, — Records, Vol. XXVII, Part 1. 



■ Indian Engineering, — Vol. XV, Nos. 10-13. 



Copenhagen. Kongelige Nordiske Oldskrift Selskab, — Aarboger, II 



Roekke, IX Bind, 1 Hefte. 

 Edinburgh. Koyal Society of Edinburgh, — Proceedings, Vol. XIX. 



Transactions, Vol. XXXVII, Parts 1 and 2. 



