PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL 



EDITED BY 



Jhe ^onorary jSecretaries. 

 No. II, FEBEUARY, 1898. 



*e bounds of its investigation will be the geographical limits of Asia : and 



These limits its inquiries will be extended to whatever is performed by 



V>.-^duced by nature." 



ill flourish, if Naturalists, Chemists, Antiquaries, Philologers, and 



men ience in different parts of Asia, will commit their observations to 



writing, \d send them to the Asiatic Society at Calcutta, It will languish, 



if suc> comtnimications shall be long intermitted; and it will die away, if 



they Bhall enfcirt?J^ cease. "—Sir William Jones. 



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1898. 



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