PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



For August, 1873. 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Society was held on "Wednesday t 

 the 6th instant, at 9 o'clock p. M. 



Col. H. Hyde, R. E., President, in the chair. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following presentations were laid on the table — 



1. From the Government of India — 



A copy of " Report of a Tour made by Captain Miles to Kedj and 

 Punjgoor and his return via Kurrachi." 



A copy each of iEsop's Fables and the Gospel of St. Luke, translated 

 into the Swaheli language by Dr. Steere, Zanzibar. 



A copy of a " Diary of a Journey from Bunder Abbas to Baghdad, via 

 Seistan, Meshed and Teheran" by Mr. G. Rozario, late in medical charge 

 of the Seistan Mission. 



2. From the Imperial Government of Brazil — A copy of a work entit- 

 led " Climat, Geologie, Faune, et Geographie Botanique du Bresil," by Mr. 

 E. Liais. 



3. From the Directors of the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences 

 two copies of '•' Photographien naar Oudheden van Java, door J. van Kins- 

 bergen." 



The following letter accompanied the donation — 



' We have the pleasure to inform you that through the Netherlands In- 

 dia Steam Navigation Company we have forwarded to the address of your 

 Society, as per enclosed bill of lading, a case containing a collection of pho- 

 tographs representing part of the antiquities of Java. 



' In the 33rd volume of the Transactions of our Society will be found an 

 elaborate monograph on Hinduism in Java, a posthumous work of the Rev. 

 J. F. G. Brumund, Protestant Minister at Batavia, who, at the suggestion of 



