exxvili Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [July, 
Kashmir, the nomad Gijars are found still pursuing their 
pastoral avocations, and still spea ing 6 language their 
éwa 
shows traces of its long journey. For these Gajars, wandering 
over hills where the resident population speaks either Pushtd 
or some Pigacha dialect, and separated from the Jamna by the 
wide plains of the Panjab, over which either Lahndi or Panjabi 
is the universal tongue, speak a language, which, though nearly 
the same as Méwati. also contains, like flies in amber, odd 
phrases and idioms belonging to the Hindéstani of the Jamna 
valley. These they could not have taken from Pushtd or from 
Pisacha. These are strangely alike to Lahndi and Punjabi. 
These do not occur in Méwati, and they clearly show that the 
Gijars, on their way to Swat and Kashmir, must, at one period 
of their wanderings, have lived in the Jamna valley. 
GroreE A. GRIERSON. 
CAMBERLEY, 
8th February, 1912. 
The eee four gentlemen were balloted for as Ordi- 
nary Members 
Babu Hosein Sen, M.A., B.L., Vakil, High Court, 91, 
Durga Charan Mittra’s Street, Calcutta, proposed by Mr. G. H. 
Tipper, seconded by Babu Rakhal Das Baneriee : Mr. Everard 
Digby, B.Sc. (London), Manager, Associated Press of India, 1, 
tosh Mukhopadhyaya, Kt. x seconded by Mr. H. G. Graves; 
Lieut. T. L. Bomford, 1.M , Officiating Surgeon-Naturalist, 
Indian Museum, Calcutta, ae by Capt. R. B. Seymour 
Sewell, I.M.S., seconded by Mr. S. W. ice: Mr. Egbert A. 
Andrews, Entomologist, latte Tea Association, Tocklai, Cin- 
namara P. O., Jorhat Rovirmst panes by Mr. S. W. Kemp, 
seconded by Mr. F. H. Gra 
Mr. F. H. Gravely inca: Pedipalpi from Caves near 
Moulmein. 
Mr. 8S. W. Kemp exhibited bowls from the Abor country. 
The following papers were read :— 
(1) The Date of Varaha Mihira’s Birth. —By BRAJALAL 
MUKERJEE. 
(2) old Buddhist Commentary on Amarakosa. —By 
MAHAMAHOPADHYAYA Satis CHANDRA VipyaBHusana, M.A. 
(3) Theories to explain the origin of the Vison Family.— 
By MawaMAHOPADHYAYA HARAPRASAD Suastrt, C.I.E., M.A. 
These two papers will be published in a aabesicat num- 
ber of the Journal. 
