JUN 11 1906 
BOTAN] 
GARDEN 
MAY, 1905. 
The Monthly General Meeting of the Society was held on 
Wednesday, the 3rd May, 1905, at 9-15 p.m. 
PanpiT Satis CHANDRA VipyaBHusaNa, M.A., in the chair. 
The following members were present :— 
Dr. N. Annandale, Rai Sarat Chandra Das, Bahadur, Mr. L. 
L. Fermor, Mr. J. Macfarlane, Mr. F. C. Turner, Mr. EH. Vreden- 
burg. 
Visitor :—Mr. G. de P. Colter. 
The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 
Thirty-six presentations were announced. 
Babu Kashi Prasad Saha, Babu Hemendra Prasad Ghosha, 
Dr. A. J. Ollenbach, Mr. H. G. Graves, Babu Dwarkanath Chakra -~ 
butti and Mr. T. W. Richardson were balloted for and elected Ordi- 
nary Members of the Society. 
Tt was announced that Mr. A. Tocher had expressed a wish 
to withdraw from the Society. 
The Chairman announced that Mr. H. H. Stapleton, Captain 
L. Rogers, I.M.S., Mr. H. H. Mann, Mr, D. Hooper and Mr. J. 
N. Das Gupta had been appointed to serve on the Library Com- 
mittee during the present year. 
The following papers were read :— 
1. The Emperor Babar.—By H. Bevzrings, 1.C.8. (retired.) 
2. Contributions to Oriental Herpetology III—Notes on the 
Oriental Lizards in the Indian Museum, with a List of the Species 
recorded from British India and Ceylon. Part 2.—By Newson 
ANNANDALE, B.A., D.Sc. 
3. Tibet, a dependency of Mongolia (1643-1716 A.D.)—By 
Rar Sarat CHanpra Das, Banapur, C.1.H. 
4, SarvasJNa-mitra—A Vantrika Buddhist author of Kasmira 
in the 8th Century A.D.—By Panvit Satis CHANDRA VIDYABHUSANA, 
M.A. 
5. The Similarity of the Tibetan Alphabet to the Kashgar 
Brahmi Alphabet.—By Rey. A. H. FRANCKE. 
6. <A complete All-word Index to the Inscriptions of Asoka.—By 
Ganca Mouan Laskar, M.A. Communicated by the Philological 
Secretary. 
The last two papers will be published in the Memoirs. 
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