CONTENTS. 



Monthly General Meeting ... ... 



Presentations ,,. 



Election of Members ... ,,, ... 



Withdrawal of Members ... ... ... ... ;.. 



Babu Ram Brahma Sanyal, Superintendent of the Alipore Zoological Gardens, 



exhibited liring specimens of the Egyptian Jerboa {Dijpus jaculus) 

 Papers : — 



1. A note on some BlocJc-Prints from Ehotan. — St/ Db. A. F. R. Hoernle, 

 C.I.B. (With 2 Plates) 



2. Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, No. 10, — By Sir George 

 King, K.C.I.E., M.B., LL.D., F.R.S., Lately Superintendent of the Boyal Botanic 

 Garden, Calcutta, (Title only) ... 



3. On the Lizard in Indian Superstition and Folk -Medicine. — By ^arat 

 Candra Mitra, M.A., B.L., Cwrespondiiyg Memher of the Anthropological 

 Society of Bomhay. Communicated by the Anthropological Secretary. (Title only) 



4. Note on Dr. Hoernle's paper on New and Rare Hindu and Muhammadan 

 Coins, No. IF. — By 0. CoDRiKGTON,' M.D., F.S.A. Communicated by the 

 Philological Secretary ... ... ... ... ' 



5. New ftpecies of Entada /row Svigapore and Borneo. — By H. N. Ridley, 

 M.A , F.Z.S., Director of the Botanic Gardens, Singapore, Communicated by 

 SuRGKON- Major D. Prain. (Title only) 



6. Patiydlah coins, origin of the legend thereon. — By W. Irvine, I. C.S, 

 (retired) ... ... .... 



7. On a third invasion of India by Baer's Pochard {Nyroca baeri.) — By 

 F. FiKN, B.A., F.Z.S., Deputy Superintendent of the Indian Museum (with 

 exhibition of specimens) ... , ••• 



8. An Unrecorded Governor of Fort William in Bengal. — By C. R. Wilson, 

 M.A. (Title only) ... ... ... ... ... .... 



9. A new Inscription of Maharaja Bhoja I. from Marwar, dated Harsa 

 Samvat 100.— By Dr. T. Bloch. (Title only) 



iO. Materials for a Carcinclogical Fauna of India. — No. III. The 

 Brachytira Cancroidea. — By A. Alcock, M.B., C.M.Z.S. (Title only) 



11. Numismatic Notes and Novelties, No. III. — By V. A. Smith, I.C.S. 

 (Title only) 



12. Scraps of Hindu Folk-lore. — By Pandit Ramgharib Choube, Late 

 Pandit to VV. Crooke, Esq., I.C.S. (Retired), Editor of the "North Indian Notes 

 and Queries." Communicated by the Anthropological Secretary. (Title only) ... 

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LIST OF BOOKS FOR SALE 



at the library of the 



Asiatic Society of jSengal, 



No. 57, PARK STREET, CALCUTTA, 



AND OBTAINABLE FROM 



THE SOCIETY'S AGENTS, MESSRS. LTJZAC AND CO., 



46, Great Russell Street, London, W. C, and 



Mr. Otto Harrassowitz, Bookseller, Leipzig, Germany. 



Complete copies of those ivories marked with an asterisk * cannot he supplied — some 



of the Fasciculi being out of stock, 



BIBLIOTHECA INDICA. 



Sanskrit Series. 



Advaita Brabma Siddhi, (Text) Ease. I—IV @ /6/eacli ... Rs. 1 8 



•AgniPurana (Text) Ease. IV— XIV @/6/ each ... ... 4 2 



Aitareya Aranyaka of the Rig Veda, (Text) Ease. I — V @ /6/ each ... X 14 

 Aitareya Brahmaija Vol. I, Ease. I— V; and Vol.11, Fasc. I— V, 



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