70 General Meeting for November, 1901. [Nov., 



Mr. D. Sunder, and Pandit Mahendra Nath Vidyanidhi had been posted 

 up as defaulting members since the last meeting and will be removed 

 from the Member List. 



The General Secretary reported the presentation of the following 

 coins : — 



From the Government of N.-W.P., one silver and one copper coin. 



From the Madras Government Museum, two silver and two copper 

 coins. 



From tlie Bombay Branch of tlie Royal Asiatic Society, one gold 

 coin. 



Mr. I. H. Burkill exhibited some seedlings of Eugenia jambolana 

 from seeds wliicli had passed through the intestine of a Flying-fox. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. On Variation in the Flower of Ranunculus arvensis : A study of 

 Flower Stjmmetnj. — By I. H. Burkill. 



2. A sJwrt notice of a Persian MS. on Gaur. — By H. Beveridge, 

 J.C.S. (retired). 



(Abstract.) 



This paper draws attention to a Persian MS. in the India Office 

 Library, containing an account of the buildings and inscriptions at Raj- 

 mahal, Gaur, and Panduah. It is the result of local investigations 

 made by Shyam Prasad in November and December, 1810, when he 

 visited Gaur in attendance on Major Francklin. The report was drawn 

 up for Major Francklin and appears to be the source of the information 

 given in Francklin's Journal, of which good use has been made by Mrs. 

 Ravenshaw and Mr. Grote, in Raven.shaw's Gaur. The really new part 

 in Shyam Prasad's report, according to Mr. Beveridge, seems to be his 

 first chapter which gives an account of Rajmabal. Mr. Beveridge re- 

 commends the publication of the report. 



3. A short note on the date of the death of Nur Qufb ^Alam. — By 

 H. Beveridge, I.C.S. (retired). 



(Abstract.) 



Mr. Beveridge was the first to point out that according to a history 

 written some 20 years ago by llahi Bakhsh, a school master of Maldah, 

 the death of Nur Qutb 'Alam, the famous saint of Panduah, occurred 

 on the 7th Zilgada 818 = A.D. 141G, 8th January. This date fits best 



