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V^ C? NEW YORK. A 



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OP THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL 



For May, 1899. 



The Montlil}' General i\[eeting of tlie Asiaiie Society of Bengal, 

 was lield on Wednesday, tlie l^vd May, 1899, a^ 9-15 p.m. 



II. I). Oldham, Esq., F.G.S., in the chair. 



Tlio following members were present: — 



Major A. Alcock, I.M.S., Mr. J. Bathgate, Di-. T. Blooh, Mr. P. 

 Finn, Major C. R. M. Green, I. M.S.. The Revd. H. B. Hyde, Mr. H. E. 

 Kempthorne, Mr. T. H. D. La Touche, Mr. J. Mann, Mr. C. S. 

 Middlemiss, Baba Panchanan MuJrerjee, Mr. J. D. Nimmo, Mr. P. E. 

 Pargiter, IMajor D. Prain, I.M.S., Rai Ram Biahma Sanyal Bahadur, 

 Mr. M. J. Seth, Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprarad Shastri, Mr. H. A. 

 Stark, Mr. A. Tocher, Mr. E. Thoi^nton, Babu Nagendia ISTath Vasu. 



Visitors .—Mr. P. E. Cameron, Mr. H. T. Fulton, Mr. T. H. Smitli, 

 Iklr. G. H. Turton, Mr. T. L. Walker. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



Thirty-t^vo presentations were announced. 



Mr. Chas. A. Silbenad was ballotted for and elected an Ordinary 

 Member. 



The Revd. H. AVhitehead expressed a wish to withdraw from the 

 Society. 



The Secretary reported the death of Sir Monier Monier- Williams, 

 Knt., K.C.I.E., an Honorary Centenary Member of the Society. 



Mr. F. Finn exhibited a boar's skull showing malformation by over- 

 gi'owth of a lower canine, and made the following remarks on it : — 



The boar's skull exhibited to-night, showing the right lower canine 

 curved into a semi-circle, was presented to the Indian Museum last 

 month by Dr. Kars Zorab, who writes concerning it : — 



" I procured the skull while out shooting in the North Bhagalpur 

 District. The animal was very old and had several scars on its body, 

 but there was no outward mark over the spot where the lower jaw is 

 injured. I think the same blow that broke the tusk of the upper jaw 

 is the cause of the curious bony growth. The abnormally developed 

 tusk had grown right through the cheek; the wound thus made was 

 quite healed. The animal was killed last February." 



