JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL 



VOL. LXV. 



PART II. (Natural History, &c. 



(Nos. I TO ly.— 1896.) 



EDITED BY THE 



Natural fiisxoRY Secretary. 



" It will flourish, if naturalists, chemists, antiquaries, philologers, and men of science 

 in different parts of Asia, will commit their observations to writing, and send them to 

 the Asiatic Society at Calcutta. It will languish, if such communications shall be long 

 intermitted ; and it M^ill die away, if they shall entirely cease." Sir Wm. Jones. 



CALCUTTA : 



(y-.^ PRINTED AT THE BAPTIST MISSION PRESS, 





AND PUBLISHED BY THE 

 ASIATIC SOCIETY, 57, PARK STREEJ 



1897. 



