JULY, 1914. 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Society was held on 

 Wednesday, the 1st July, 1914, at 9-15 p.m. 



Mahamahopadhyaya Satis Chandra Vidyabhusana, 

 M.A., Ph.D., F.A.S.B., in the chair. 



The following members were present : 



Maulavi Abdul Wali, Dr. N. Annandale. Babu Rakhal Das 

 Banerji, Mr. Percy Brown, Dr. P. J. Bruhl, Babu Nilmani 

 Chakravarti, Dr. B L. Chaudhuri, Mr. F. H. Gravely, Mr. A. H. 

 Harley, Maulavi M. Hidayat Husain, Hon. Mr. W. W. Hornell, 

 Rev. H. Hosten, S.J., Hon. Mr. C. H. Kesteven, Babu Ramesh 

 Chandra Majumdar, Mr. R. D. Mehta, CLE., Major C. L. Peart, 

 Dr. C. Schulten, Dr. O. Strauss. 



Visitors:— Mr. W. Ivanow, Dr. L. P. TessitorL and Miss 

 M. Tonnet. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 

 Thirty-four presentations were announced. 



The General Secretary reported that the Rev. A. Willifer 

 Young has expressed a wish to withdraw from the Society. 



The following gentleman was balloted for as an Ordinary 

 Member : 



Babu Satya Gharan Laha, M.A., B.L., Merchant and Zemin 

 dar, 24, Sukea Street, Calcutta, proposed by Mahamahopa- 

 dhyaya Haraprasad Shastri, seconded by Babu Panchanan 

 Mukhopadhyaya. 



Dr N. Annandale exhibited, on the lantern, a series of 

 photographs of Indian statues of Buddhas, illustrating the 

 conventional method of representing the robes in the late, 

 periods. 



The following papers were read : 



1. The date of Chashtana.—By Ramesh Chandra Majum- 



dar. 



This paper has been published in the Journal for June 



1914. 



2. Spirit belief in the Jataha stories.— By Nilmani 



ie of the death of Shah Beg Arghun, the ruler of 



Chakravarti. 



Sind.—By H. Beveridgb. 



