84 W. Hooj—SdJujauiO Coiyper-TJatc. [May & June, 



Tlie following gentleman has expressed a wish to withdraw from 

 the Society : — 



Major M. J. Meade, S.C. 



The Secretary reported the death of the following members : — 

 Prince Iskander Aii Mii'za, Bahadur, 

 Babu Bhudeva Mukerjea, C.I.K. 

 Kumar Indrachandra Singh. 

 J. P. Scotland, Esq., C. E. 



The Chairma^^ announced the following elections made by the 

 Council : — 



Dr. A, F. R. Hoernle, as officiating Philological Secretary, vice 

 Mr. Ct. a. Grierson. 



Dr. A. W. Alcock, as Natural History Secretary, vice Dr. J. H. Tall 

 Walsh. 



Dr. Walsh, as Anthropological Secretary, vice Dr. Alcock. 



The Chairman also announced that Dr. Walsh had resigned the 

 Anthropological Secretaryship of the Society. 



The Chairman read a letter, dated 10th May 1894, from the 

 Private Secretary to the Viceroy and Governor-General of India, 

 conveying Lord Elgin's acceptance of the office of Patron of the 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal. 



The Chairman also read letters from Dr. Reinhold Rost, Monsieur 

 Lonis Pasteur, Sir William Henry Flower, Dr. Edward Frankland, 

 and Professor Theodor JSToeldeke, expressing thanks for being elected 

 Honorary Members of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 



The Philological Secretary exhibited the Sohgaura Copper-plate, 

 an ancient inscription in A^oka characters (see Plate I) presented to 

 the Society by Dr. W. Hoey, I.G.S., and read the following notes on 

 the same by Dr. Hoey and Mr. V. A. Smith, I.C.S. 



Note on the Sohgaura Copper-Flate — Btj Dr. W. Hoey, I.C.S. 



Shortly after the Rapti river passes Gorakhpur city it makes a 

 series of rapid bends, and one of these occurs jast after it has been 

 joined by the Ami river. It is about a mile-and-a-half across the 

 neck of this bend, and the whole length is a series of mounds, more 

 or less continuous, and these give their names to the homesteads or 

 Tillages, beginning with Tikar on the North, then Kaithauli, Sohgaura, 



