2, A Bismer Weighing-Beam from the Darjeeling 
District. 
By N. Awnanpatp, D.Sc., F.A.S.B. 
The beam described in this note was obtained in the village 
bazaar at Mungpu in the Darjeeling district of the Eastern 
Himalayas in October, 1917. It was used by.an old Nepali 
woman who was selling condiments such as ginger and turmeric. 
The local name, in the dialect of Hindi called Pahari in that 
part of the Himalayas, is dindishir. The apparatus consists of 
a beam and a_ scale-pan, with the necessary strings for 
suspension. 
The beam is made of wood painted with some black varnish 
and cut rather roughly into shape. Though made in a single 
piece it consists of two distinct parts:—(a) the beam proper, 
