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The following gentlemen are candidates for election at the next 

 meeting : — 



Brigade Surgeon J. G. Pilcher, px'oposed by L. de Niceville, Esq., 

 seconded by J. Wood-Mason, Esq. 



Maharaja Girijanath Roy, Dinajpur, proposed by Babii Gaurdas 

 Bysack, seconded by Colonel J. Waterhouse. 



The Secretart reported the death of the following member : 

 Kumar Isvariprasad Garga. 



Babu Saratchandra Das exhibited a Tibetan drawing of the golden 

 Chaitya of Lhasa. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. A descriptive list of the Uredinece occurring in the neighbourhood 

 of Simla {Western Himalayas), Part III. — By A. Barclay, M. B., Bengal 

 Medical Service. 



2. Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, Part II. — By 

 GeorCxE King, C. I. E., M. B., LL. D., F. R. S., F. L. S., Superintendent 

 of the Boyal Botanic Garden, Calcutta. 



3. Description of a new Genus of Bamboos. — By J. S. Gamble, 

 Esq., M. a. 



These papers will be published in the Journal, Part II. 



4. The account of a Bengali Brdhmana who obtained a high position 

 in the Singhalese Buddhist Hierarchy in the 11th Century, A. D. — By 

 Pandit Harapeasad S'astri, M. A. 



A short treatise entitled Bhalcti Shataha was published in 1885, in 

 Ceylon, by F. CJooray. It was sent to me by a friend, Mohattibatte 

 Guminanda, the high priest of the Dipadattama Vihare in Colombo. 

 The work is a short one of 107 verses. But it is an exceedingly interest- 

 ing work for a variety of reasons : 



(1) It is a Sanskrit work though published in the Singhalese char- 

 acter. 



(2) It is a Buddhist work. 



(3) It is written in standard Sanskint and not in that verbose 

 difficult, obscuie and ungrammatical idiom which goes by the name of 

 Buddhist Sanskrit. 



(4) It was written by a Brahmaua who became a Buddhist from 

 conviction. 



(5) It was written by a Bengali in the eleventh century. 



(6) It evidently shows that the Brahmana was persecuted, and ex- 

 commuuicated for his faith, and that he became a voluntary exile in 



