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JOURNAL 



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ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



Vol. LXIX. Part II, No. 1.— 1900. 



EDITED BY 



J-IONEL DE J^ICEVILLE, pSq., F.B.S, C.M.Z.S., &C. 



Hon.' Natural History Secretary. 



" The bounds of its investigation will be the geographical limits of Asia : and 

 within these limits its inquiries will be extended to whatever is performed by 

 man or produced by nature." — Sir William Jones. 



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 to whom all orders for the work are to be addressed in India ; or care of 

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