MAY, 1916. 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Society was held on 

 Wednesday, the 3rd May, 1916, at 9-15 p.m. 



Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Shastri, C.I.E., Vice- 

 President, in the chair. 



The following members were present : 



Mr. A. C. Atkinson, Babu Rakhal Das Banerjee, Mr. J. A. 

 Chapman, Mr. H. G. Graves, Mr. S. W. Kemp, Rev. R. Oka, 

 Babu Radhanath Laha, Mr. Satis Chandra Vidyabhusana. 



Visitors .—Mr. A. C. Ghose, Mr. G. D. Sarkar. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



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Twenty-eight presentations were announced. 



The General Secretary reported the death of Mr. R. C. 

 Burton of the Geological Survey of India and Mr. M. S. 

 Ramaswami of the Botanical Survey of India, Ordinary Mem- 

 bers of the Society. 



The^ General Secretary reported that Capt. John Inglis 

 Eadie, 97th Deccan Infantry, had expressed a desire to with- 

 draw from the Society. 



The following gentlemen were balloted for as Ordinary 

 Members: — 



M . van Genus, Esq., Managing Editor of the Newspaper 

 u Soerabajasch Handelsblad," Soerabaja (Java), Great Eastern 

 Hotel, Calcutta, proposed by Mr. W\ R. Gourlay, seconded bv 

 Mr. F. H. Gravely; Babu Dharanidhar Dutt, B.A., Nepal 

 Educational Service, Katmandu, Nepal, proposed by Mr. 



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Mahamahopadhyilya Haraprasad Shastri exhibited a 

 golden manuscript of a very rare work entitled Heruka Tantra, 

 Section Sambarodoya only. 



Dr. Satis Chandra Vidyabhusana exhibited Nag-Sgron— a 

 v e*'y early indigenous dictionary of the Tibetan language. 



The following paper was read : 



Some traditions about Sultan 'Ala'uddin Husain Shah and 

 Notes on some Arabic Inscriptions from Murshidabad. By G. D. 

 Sarkar. Communicated by Babu Rakhal Das Banerji. 



