

NEW SERIES. 



VOL. LXVI. 



JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



Vol, LXVI. Part II, No. 1.— 1897. 



EDITED BT 



Jhe 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. 



* # * Communications should be sent under cover to the Secretaries, Asiat. Soc, 

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

 Messrs. Luzac Sf Co., 46, Great Russell Street, London, W. C, or Mr. 

 Otto Harrassowitz, Leipzig, Germany. 



CALCUTTA : 



Printed at the J3aptist ^Mission Press, 

 and published by the 

 ^siatic ^society, 57, f ark ^t^bet, 



1897. 



Prico (exolasire of postage) to Subscribers, Re. 1-8.— To Non-Subscribers, B«. 

 Price in England. 3 Shillings. 



Issued June 8th, 1897. 



