PROCEEDINGS 



OE THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



For November, 1876. 



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

 the 15th. November, at 9 o'clock p. m. 



H. BLOCHMAisrisr, Esq., M. A.^j in the Chair. 



The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following presentations were announced : — 



1. From the Government of India, Foreign Dept. — 



(1.) Memorandum descriptive of the route between Sohar and El 

 Bereymee in Oman, with route map. By Lieut. -Colonel S. B. Miles, Poli- 

 tical Agent, Muscat. 



(2.) Report by Surgeon C. T. Peters on the Hot Sjwings of Boshei", a 

 town about 18 miles from Muscat. 



2. From the Government of Bengal, a copy of Dr. W. W. Hunter's 

 Statistical Account of Bengal, in 5 volumes. 



3. From the Eight Hon'ble the Secretary of State for India, a 

 copy of " The Commentaries of th.e great Afonso d'Alboquerqas, second 

 Viceroy of India," by W. de Gray Birch, published by the Hakluyt 

 Society. 



4. From the author, a copy of a work entitled " Notes on the History 

 and Antiquities of Chaul and Bassein," l)y J. Gerson da Cunha. 



5. From the author, a work entitled, " The District of Bakarganj 

 its History and Statistics," by H. Beveridge, C. S. 



G. From the author, a work entitled, " The Geographical Distribu- 

 tion of Animals and Plants. Pt. II, Plants in their wild state," by Dr. 

 C. Pickering. 



7. From M. Garcin de Tassy, a copy of his work entitled " Allegories, 

 recits poetiques et chants populaires traduits de I'Arabe, du Persau, do 

 * 'Hindoustani, et du Turc." 



8. From Nawab Nizam-ud-Daulah, former Diwan of Jodlipiir Ivdj, a 

 opy of a Avork entitled " Gulistiin-i-Lughat wa Shabistilu-i-Nukat." 



