April, 1907.] Proceedingsi of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Ixxy 



, Dr. N/Alinandale exhibited specimens illustrating the faunn 

 of certaii?. bi^ackish pools in the delta of the Ganges. This fauna 

 has become isolated recently, probably within the last half century, 

 and presents many features of interest. It includes typical fresh- 

 water Entomostraca as well as two Cirripedes {Balanus amphztrite 

 and B. patellaris), the larvse of a mosquito (Anopheles rossii), 

 numerous freshwater fish and molluscs, a Hydrozoon (Irene ceylon- 

 enffts)^ and an Actinian {Metridium schillerianttm). The last is 

 probably the most interesting form now occurring in the pools, as 

 it appears to have undergone a very distinct change, both in struc- 

 ture and in habits, since it was described by the late Dr. F. 

 Stoliczka thirty-nine years ago. 



Mahamohopadhyaya Haraprasad Shastri exhibited a letter 

 written by Muhesh Chandra to the renowned Naiyayika Raghu- 

 natha Siromani, Tarkikacudamani, the leader of Sanskrit Renais- 

 sance in Bengal, and read a short note on it, 



, The following papers were read : 



1. The Bird.'i^ complaint before Solomon : being an extract 

 with a trandation from, the ^' Kifab'^ ^l-JamJiarah f% *il7ni 7- 

 BazyaraK'' — By Lt.-Col. D. C. Phillott n7id R. F. Azoo. 



This paper has been published in the Journal and Proceedmgs 

 for March 1907. 



2. 



f Hawks should avoid. — By Lt.- 



CoL. D. C. Phillott and R. F. Azoo. 



This paper will be published in a subsequent number of the 



Journal and P roceedings. 



3. Tarlkh-i'Nusrat jangt.—By Habi Nath De. 

 This paper will be published in the Memoirs. 



4. Note on the absorption of gases, vapours and substances from 

 sofution by solids and aonorphmis substances. — By M. W. Tea VERS. 



5. Indian Logic as preserved in Tibet^ No. 2. — By Mahamaho- 



padhyay Satis Chandra VidyabhusAna. 



f). The Conquest of Chafgaon, 1666 AJ). — By Jadu Nath 

 Sarkar. 



7. The Feringi Pirates of Chatgaon, 166o A.D. — By Jadu 



Nath Sarkar. 



8. A Kharosthi Copperplate Incription from Taxila or Tal'sa- 



sila. — By ilAiiAMAnopADHTATA Haraprasad Suastri. 



9. Rhyming letters of Aurangzib. — B;/ Jadu Nath Sarkar. 



These papers will be published in a subsequent number of the 

 Journal and Proceedings, 



