PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



For July, 1876. 



Tlie montlily General Meeting of the Society was held on Wednesday, 

 the 5th instant, at 9 o'clock p. m. 



Babu Rajendralala Mitra, LL. I>., Vice-President, in the Chair, 

 The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 

 The following presentations were announced — 



1. Prom the Hmigarian Academy of Sciences, a bronze Medal stinick 

 by the Academy in commemoration of the completion of its great 

 Hungarian Dictionary, edited by the late G. Czuczor and J. Fogarasi. 



2. From Dr. Eajendralala Mitra, a copy of the " Atlas of Northern 

 Antiquities." 



3. From the Secretary of State for India, a copy of a work enti- 

 tled, " Primitive Tribes of the Nilagiris," by the late J. W. Breeks, M. C. S. 



4. From A. V. Nursingrow, Esq., a copy of the " Eesults of Meteor- 

 ological Observations, 1875, taken at G. V. Juggarow's Observatory, Dabba 

 Gardens, Vizagapatam." 



5. From J. Calvert, Esq., a drawing of an Ancient Temple at Jugget 

 Sookh, Kulu Valley, and some lithographs of sculptures in Kidu. 



6. From Babu Nilcomal Basak, through Dr. Bajendralala Mitra, 

 5 vols, of a MS. Sanskrit Dictionary, with 60 specimen pages, printed in 

 Bengali, compiled by the late Babu Kasinatha Basak. 



The following letter from Dr. Eajendi'alala Mitra accompanied the 

 donation — 



" I send herewith, for presentation to the Society, in the name of 

 Babu Nilcomal Basak of Kalakar Street, Calcutta, five vokmies of a MS. 

 Dictionary of the Sanskrit language, and also sixty specimen images of 

 the same, printed in the Bengali character. The work was comj)iled by 

 the late Babu Kasinatha Basilk who died about forty years ago. He 

 was a distinguished Sanskrit and Persian scholar, and for his time a 

 good English Avriter, having been in the habit of preparing briefs for 

 barristers of the late Supreme Court of Calcutta. He was much re- 



