NEW SERIES. 



VOL. LXIX. 



CCCLXXXVIII. 



JOURNAL, 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



Vol. LXIX. Part II, No. 3.-19QO. 



EDITED BY 



jLlONEL DE JJlCEVILLE, JlSq., F.E.S , C.M.Z.S., &C 



Hon. Natural History Secretary. 



" The bound 8 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. 



* # # Communications should he sent under cover to the Secretaries, Asiat. 8oc, 

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

 Messrs. Luzac 8f Co., 46, Great Russell Street, London, W* C, or Mr. 

 Otto Harrassowitz, Leipzig, Germany. 



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