PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



For y\.uGusT, 1876. 



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

 the 2nd August, 1876, at 9 o'clock, p. m. 



Mr. W. T. Blanford, F. E. S., Yice-President, in the Chair. 



The following presentations were announced — 



1. From Mr. O. Semper of Hamburg, a copy of " Archiv des Vereins 

 der Freunde der Naturgeschichte in Meklenburg." 



The Chaiemajst said that Mr. Semper, in sending this donation, had 

 expressed his wish to receive papers relating to Shells, MoUusca and the 

 geographical distribution of animals and plants. 



From Cajit. J. Waterhouse, a series of 14 photozincographed plates 

 of Inscriptions from Gaur and Panduah. 



Mr. Blochmann said : — 



The plates presented by Capt. "Waterhouse to the Society are a set of 

 photozincogi-aphs taken by him of inscrij^tions from Gaur and Pancluah, 

 the old Muhammadan cai^itals of Bengal. The originals of the plates were 

 the rubbings which had been sent to the Society by General Cunningham, 

 C. S. I., and Mr. E. V. Westmacott, C. S., and had been published with 

 translations in the Journal for 1872, 1873 and 1874. The plates, it is 

 hoped, will be j)ublished in the forthcoming Work on Gaur by the late Mr. 

 Raven shaw. 



The following is a list of the inscriptions — 



PI. I. Two Inscriptions from the A'dinah Mosque, Panduah, built by 

 Sikandar Shah, A. J). 1369. Published, Journal, 1873, p. 257. 



The inscriptions are most artistically out. 



PI. II. Inscrijjtion No. 4, from' Hilal's Mosque near the Fort of 

 Mcildah. Mahmud Shah I., A. D. 1455. Journal, 1874, p. 294. 



Inscription No. 5, from the Chhota Dargah at Panduah. Mabuu'id 

 Shcih I., A. D. 1459. Journal, 1873, p. 271. 



I'l. III. Inscription No. 5, from a Mosque at Panduah. Yusuf Shah, 

 A. D. 1479. Joiu-nal, 1873, p. 276. 



