L56 C. R. Wilson — Nutc on the "Riverside of Calcutta in 1788. [Aug. 



The following gentlemen are candidates for election at the next 

 meeting : — 



Balm Narsingh Dutt, Howrah, proposed by G. A. Grierson, Esq., 

 seconded by C. R. Wilson, Esq. 



R. Greevan, Esq., C. S., proposed by C. H. Tawney. Esq., seconded 

 by C. R. Wilson, Esq. 



The following gentlemen have expressed a wish to withdraw from 

 the Society : — 



A. M. Markham, Esq., C. S. 

 The Rev. Walter A. Hamilton. 



The Hon. H. H. Risley brought forward a motion to revive the 

 Ethnological Committee and the appointment of an Ethnological Secre- 

 tary who should be in charge of a new part of the Journal. 



It was unanimously resolved that a third section dealing with 

 Anthropology, Ethnography and Folklore be added to the Journal and 

 that the Council be authorized to enter into negotiations with the 

 Government of Bengal in order to obtain a grant in connection there- 

 with. 



Mr. C. R. Wilson read a short note on an old picture of the river- 

 side in the north part of Calcutta in 1788. 



Note on an old Picture of the Riverside in the north fart of 

 Calcutta in 1788. 



This picture is one of a set of nine pictures of old Calcutta in the 

 possession of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. There is also a very large 

 copy of it at Belvedere. The date is 1788. It obviously represents a 

 house, temple, and bathing ghats, in the northern part of Calcutta. 

 There is the steeple of a church in the distance. Tho difficulty is to 

 determine the precise spot. I havo spent a good deal of time in the 

 attempt to do this. Remembering that the present Strand was once 

 covered with water I have walked up and down the northern part of it, 

 and have examined all the buildings which lio to the east of the roadway. 

 I have thus discovered the temple and all that remains of the buildings 

 seen in the picture. 



The most conspicuous object in the picture is a large three-storied 

 house built by the waterside and behind it a smaller two-storied houso. 

 The three-storied building, was in 1788, the Thakur Ban of Babu Jugul 

 Kisore Addy, and the two-storied building was his house of residence. 

 Babu Jugul Kisore had bought tho land from a Madrassce called Naina 

 Pa and built the Thakur Ban upon it. At his death the property camo 

 to his son Nanda Lai Addy who only survived his father a few years. The 



