1912.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. exli 
point, I refer to the descriptions of temples, tombs and ruins. 
I believe that a translation will do justice to the text only 
when a host of scholars will have focussed, on the original, the 
light of research. 
Monserrate’s Mongolicae Legationis Commentarius will 
form the first volume of a series of Jesuit papers on Mogor, 
Tibet, Bengal and Burma, which I intend editing under the 
patronage of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 
I take this opportunity to thank the Council of our 
Society for having sanctioned my application for Rs. 600 to be 
spent on procuring from Europe materials for further research, 
photographic facsimiles of the letters of the Jesuit Mis- 
sionaries in Mogor, Tibet, Bengal and Burma during thie 
period 1580-1803. It is but just that I should thank most 
heartily our Society for the enlightened encouragement and 
patronage which it means to extend to studies which will be of 
equal interest to the antiquarian and the historian, religious or 
profane. 
This paper will be published in full in the Memoirs. 
3. Critical Examination of the Transcript of the Atapura 
Inscription.— By Panpit Monantat VISHUNLAL PanDiIa. 
4. Kitab-ul-Wafayat of Ibn-ul- Khatib : a biographical notice 
of eminent men from the beginning of Islam to s.H. 80°. 
Edited by Mautavi Htpayet Husain. 
5. Contributions from the Chemical Laboratory, Presidency 
College. Allylammonium Nitrite.—By PRaFULLA CHANDRA Ray 
and RastK Lat Datta. 
6. Contributions from the Chemical Laboratory, Presidency 
College. Preliminary note on Sodiumdiacetamide.—By JITEN- 
pra Nata Raxsurr. Communicated by Dr. P. C. Ray. 
These papers will be published in a subsequent number of 
the Journal. 
7. Freshwater Sting-Rays of the Ganges.—By B. L. CHav- 
DHRI. 
This paper has been published in the Journal for Sep- 
tember. 
8. Abhiseka. or Hindu Coronation.—By MaHAMAHOPADH- 
yAyA HaRApRASAD SHASTRI. 
9. Coronation of a Hindu King in Ancient India.—By 
Panpit MouanLaL VISHUNLAL PaNnDIa. 
These papers will be published in a subsequent number of 
the Journal. 
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