PROCEEDINGS 



OP THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



For November, 1899. 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Society was held on Wednesday, 

 the 1st November, 1899, at 9 P.M. 



■ L. DE Nic:fiviLLE, Esq., C.M.Z.S-, F.E.S., in the chair. 



The following members were present : — 



Mr. F. Finn, Mr, D. Hooper, Mr. W. A. Lee, Mr. J. D. Nimmo, 

 Mr. F. E. Pargiter, Mr. J. Wjness. 



Visitors :— Mr. E. Kinnison, Mr. W. F. Reynolds. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



One hundred and fourteen presentations were announced. 



Dr. Miinnu Lai, R;ij Kumar Satchidanand Dev Bahadur, Mr. 

 St. Joijn Stephen, B.A., LL.B., Dr. H. C. Garth, Mr. W. Dods, 

 Mr. E. Seymour Wood, Tlie Most Reverend James Edward Cowell 

 WelldoM, D.D., and Babu Jotindra Nath Mukharji, were elected Ordi- 

 nary Members of the Society during the recess in accordance with 

 Rule 7. 



The Revd. Father E. Francotte, S.J., was ballotted for and elected 

 "an Associate Member. 



Father Francotte has for some years been Professor of Chemistry 

 in the St. Xavier's College. He has conducted the Meteoiological 

 Observatory founded in 1867 by Father Lafont, and has published half- 

 yearly summaries of his observations. Recently he has undertaken, as 



