PROCEEDINGS 



or THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



For November, 1873. 



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

 the 5th instant, at 9 o'clock p. M. 



Col. 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 Royal University of Norway, small collections of 

 Minerals and Coleopterous insects, also a Medal issued by the University in 

 commemoration of the Millenary Jubilee celebrated 18th July, 1872, in the 

 Kingdom of Norway, which Kingdom was constituted by the king Harald 

 Haarfager in the year A. D. 872. 



The President remarked that no list or description of the minerals had 

 been received, but they would be sent to the Superintendent of the Geologi- 

 cal Survey for classification and afterwards deposited in the Museum. 



2. From Babu Yadavachandra Mukerji, a large palm-leaf MS. of 

 the Ramayana, Ayodhyakanda found floating in the river Hugh, at Kamar- 

 hati. 



3. From Sirdar Attar Sing Bahadur, a copy of Sakhee Book or de- 

 scription of Gooroo Gobind Singh's Religion and Doctrines. 



From Eroud Tamoorus Deenshah Unclaschariah, Editor of " Shavuk 

 Nameh," through Mr. B. Cowasjee. a copy of his Gujrati Poetry. 



4>. From Col. Guthrie, a cast of a Bengal coin of Firuz Shah the 

 Second. 



Mr. Blochmann said : — 



This cast is taken from an apparently unique silver coin in the British 

 Museum. The coin was struck by Saifuddin Abul Muzaffar Firuz Shah 

 (II.) of Bengal, in 893 A. H. I have collected what little there is known of 

 this king in my " Contributions to the History and Geography of Bengal." 



5. From H. Beveridge, Esq., C. S., a copper-plate inscription found 

 at Bakirganj. 



