PROCEEDINGS 



OP THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



For January, 1876. 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society was held ou 

 Wednesday, the 5th January, 1876, at 9 o'clock p. M. 

 T. Oldham, Esq., LL. D., President, in the chair. 

 The Minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 

 The following presentations were announced — • 



1. From Dr. D. Brandis, a copy of " The Forest Flora of North- 

 West and Central India." 



2. From Capt. J. Waterhouse, a copy of his " Report on the Opera- 

 tions.connected with the Observation of the Total Solar Eclipse of April 

 6th, 1875, at Camorta in the Nicobar Islands." 



3. From Rajah Jai Kishn Das, a copy of the Rig Veda Sanhita 

 Bhashya by Pandit Dyananda Saraswati. 



4. From W. H. Dall, U. S. Coast Survey, through the Rev. C. H. 

 Dall, a copy of a " Report on Mt. St. Elias." 



The President, seeing the Rev. C. H. Dall present, asked him to explain 

 the objects of his son's paper — 



Me. DALt said : At the call of our President, I will say a few words 

 of the pamphlet on the table. It details a careful re-measurement of one of 

 the highest mountains in North America, Mt. St. Elias ; decidedly the 

 highest in that north-western portion of tlie continent which Russia ceded 

 to the United States in June 18G7, for about a million and a half sterling. 

 Dr. Oldham has made kindly reference to what he is pleased to call the 

 repeated indebtedness of this Society to the same donor, — a son of mine 

 William H. Dall, Acting Assistant, United States Coast Survey, who is get- 

 ting to be known as the explorer of Alaska (Uussian America), to the deve- 

 lopment of which country he has devoted the best part of a dozen years. 

 The Government have lefi him in sole charge of this survey and exploration, 

 and have given him, besides other means and appliances of discovery, first 



