ccxiv Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [May 



University ; his lectures were subsequently published under 

 the name of " China and the Chinese." Amongst his other 

 publications may be mentioned Records of Buddhistic King- 

 doms (1877), Glossary of Reference (which, first published in 

 1878, reached a third edition in 1900), Gems of Chinese Litera- 

 ture (1884), Remains of Lao Tzu (1886), Chinese Poetry in 

 English Verse (1898), History of Chinese Literature (1901), 

 History of Chinese Art (1905), Religions of Ancient Chinese 

 (1905), Chinese Fairy Tales (1911), and Civilisation of China 

 (1911). He has issued several works with a view to popularise 

 the study of Chinese Language ; amongst these, may be noted 

 Chinese without a teacher (which, first published in 1872, 

 reached a sixth edition in 1908) ; Colloquial Idioms (1873) ; 

 Hand Book of the Swatow Dialect (1877); and Elementary 

 Chinese (which, first published in 1900, reached a second 

 edition in 1910). He joined the Chinese Consular Service in 

 1867 and till he resigned in 1893 held Office as Vice-Consul and 

 Consul in many important places ; he has had consequently 

 exceptional opportunities of first-hand study of Chinese Lan- 

 guage, Literature, Philosophy and Art. 



The following papers were read : 



1. Bhasa and his alleged works. — By Dinesh Chandra 

 Bhattacaaryya, M.A. Communicated by the Joint Philo- 

 logical Secretary. 



2. A Progress Report on the work done during the year 1916 

 in connection with the Bardic and Historical Survey of Baj- 

 putana.—By Dr. L. P. Tessitori. 



The latter paper has been published in the Journal. 



The President announced that there would be no meeting of 

 the Medical Section during this month. 



MAY, 1917. 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Society was held on 



Wednesda\ 



Ha YD EN 



F.G.S., F.A.S.B., President, in the chair. 



The following members were present : 

 Maulavi Abdul Wali, Dr. N. Annandale, Dr. B. L. Chau- 

 dhuri, Babu Hem Chandra Das Gupta, Mr. H. G. Graves, Rev. 



