PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



For June, 1876. 



The monthly General Meeting of the Society was held on Wednesday, 

 the 7th June, 1876, at 9 o'clock, e. m. 



Babu Eajendralala Mitra, LL. J)., Vice-President, in the Chair: 



The following gentlemen, duly proposed and seconded at the last Meet- 

 ing, were balloted for and elected ordinary Members — 

 Julius Behrend, Esq. 

 J. F. Baness, Esq. 

 E. Parry, Esq. 



The following are candidates for ballot at the next meeting. — 



Lieut. F. W. Jarrad, R. N., Depy. Supt. India Coasts Survey, pro- 

 posed by Mr. J. Wood-Mason, seconded by Dr. James Armstrong. 



D. Scott, Esq., C. E., proposed by Mr. J. Wood-Mason, seconded by 

 Mr. W. T. Blanford. 



Ross Scott, Esq., C. S., of Muzaffanagur, proposed by Mr. F. S. Growse, 

 seconded by Mr. Blochmann. 



Dr. D. O'Connell Raye, General Hospital, Calcutta, proposed by Dr. G. 

 King, seconded by Capt. J. Waterhouse. 



Rev. Thos. Foulkes, Bangalore, proposed by Capt. J. Waterhouse, 

 seconded by Mr. Blochmann. 



The Chaieman announced that Lord Lytton had been pleased to honor 

 the Society by accepting the office of Patron of the Society, vacant by the 

 resignation of Lord Northbrook. 



The Chairman said : " By the last mail from Germany the Council 

 have received the melancholy intelligence of the death of Professor Christian 

 Lassen, one of the oldest honorary members of the Society, and an oriental 

 scholar of the liighcst attainments. Born in 1800 at Bergen in Norway, 



