cxxiv Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [July, 1910. 



In Rule 2, for " The Society shall consist of members of 

 the three following classes/' read " The Society shall consist of 

 Ordinary Members, Honorary Fellows and Associate Members." 



read ' ' Honorary Fellows. ' ' 



for "Honorary Members'' 



In Rule 61, for " Honorary or Associate Members " read 



" Honorary Fellows, or Associate Members." 



The following five gentlemen were ball 



for as Ordi- 



nary Mem bers : 



Mr. A. W. Botkam, I.C.S., Barisal, proposed by Babu 

 Monmohan Chakravarti, seconded by Mr. G. H. Tipper; Major 

 G. P. Lenox Conyngham, R.E., Deputy Superintendent, Sur- 

 vey of India, United Service Club, Calcutta, proposed by 

 Captain E. D. W. Greig, I.M.S., seconded by Major L. 

 Rogers, I. M.S. ; Babu Srikrishna Mahapatra, Deputy Superin- 

 tendent of Police, proposed by Babu Rakhal Das Banerji, 

 seconded by Mr. G. H. Tipper; Mahomad Aziz Mirza, Hono- 

 rary Secretarv, All-India Muslim League, 9, Banks Road, 



kn 



W. Malyon 



proposed by Lieut.-Col. D. C. Phillott, seconded by Mr. G. H. 

 Tipper. 



Dr. N. Annandale exhibited on behalf of Mr. B. L. Chau- 

 dhuri and himself specimens of two species of Sting- ray from 

 the River Ganges. He said that it had been known for nearly 

 ninety years that two species of ray inhabited the waters of 

 the Ganges far above tidal influence. Hamilton-Buchanan's 

 descriptions, however, of these two fish, which he called Raja 

 sancar and Raja fluviatilis in his c ' Gange tic Fishes ' ' (1822), 

 were inadequate for their identifications, and it was only 

 recently that Mr. Chaudhuri's investigations had proved what 

 they really were. Raja sancar, as Blyth correctly stated, wa 

 specifically identical with the marine species Hypolophus 

 sephen and was found breeding in fresh water, while Raja 

 fluviatilis was a species of Trygon allied to T. marginatus but 

 distinguished by its produced and pointed snout. A full des- 

 cription of this species, a specimen of which had also been 

 taken in the Bay of Bengal by the " Golden Crown/ 5 would be 

 published later. 



The following papers were read : 



1. The Poet Maili of Herat.— By H. Bbvbridge. 



2. Inscribed Guns from Assam.— By Rakhal Das 

 Banerji. 



These papers will be published in a subsequent number of 

 the Journal. 



