CONTENTS. 



Page, 



Monthly General Meetings .., ... ... ... ... 63, 67 



Presentations ... ... ... ... ... ... *&• 



Election of Members ... ... ... .... ... ih. 



Election of an Honorary Member ... ... ... ... 63 



Withdravval of Members ... ... ... ... ... 64, 67 



Announcements by the President ... ... ... ... ib. 



Circular letter relative to Popular Chants ... ... ... 64 



Loan of certain Portraits, etc., to the Victoria Memorial Hall ... ... 65 



Pandit Yogesa Chandra Sastree exhibited an image of Jvara (the god of fever) 66 

 Mr. B. Yredenburg exhibited specimens of fossil oysters and other marine 



shells ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 67 



Mr. G. E. Pilgrim exhibited specimens of Pleistocene fossil bones ... ih. 

 Papers : — 



1. Totemism among the Khonds. — By J. E. Friend-Pereira, B.A. 

 (Title only) ... ... ... ... ... ... 66 



2. On a new Scirpus from Beluckistan and certain of its allies. — By 



J. R. Drumomnd, B.A.,° I.C.S. (Title only) ... ... ... ih. 



3. The Later Mughals (1707-1803).— By William Irvine, I.C.S., retired 

 (Abstract) ... ... ... ... . . ... 67 



4. On Dioscorea tirmanica — a new species from Burma, and two allied 

 species. — By Major D. Prain, I.M.S,, and I. H. Burkill. (Abstract) ... 68 



5. Rusot : an ancient Eastern medicine. — By David IIooper. (Abstract) %b. 



6. Notes on the Ehasis, Syntengs and allied Tribes inhabiting the Khasi 

 -and Jaintia Hills District in Assam. — By Major P. R. T. Gurdon, LA. 

 (Abstract) ... ... ... ... ... ... ih. 



LIST OF BOOKS FOR SALE 



at the library of the 



Asiatic Society of Bengal, 



No. 57, PARK STREET, CALCUTTA, 



AND OBTAINABLE FROM 

 THE SOCIETY'S AGENTS, Mr. BERNARD QUARITCH, 

 15, Piccadilly, London, W., and Mr. Otto 

 Harrassowitz, Bookseller, Leipzig, Germany. 



KiompUte copies of those works marhed with an asterisk * cannot he supplied — some 



o f the Fasciculi be ing out of stock, 



BIBLIOTHECA INDIOA. 



Sanskrit Series. 



Advaita Brahma Siddhi, (Text) Fasc. 1-4 @, /6/ each ... Rs. 



Advaitacbinta Kaustubhe, Fasc. 1-2 ... _ ... 



•Agni Purana, (Text) Faso. 4-14 @ /6/ each ... 



Aitareya Brahmana, Vol. I, Fasc. 1-5 ; and Vol. II, Fasc. 1-5 ; Vol. 



Ill, Fasc. 1-5 ; Vol. IV., Fasc. 1-5 @ /6/ ... 

 Ann Bhasyam, (Text) Fasc. 2-5 @ /6/ each 

 Aphorisms of Sandilya, (English) Fasc. 1 

 Astasahasrika Prajnaparamita, (Text) Fasc. 1-6 @ /6/ each 

 A^vavaidyaka, (Text)* Fasc. 1-5 @ /6/ each 

 Avadana Kalpalata, (Sans, and Tibetan), Vol. I, Fasc. 2-5 ; Vol. II, 



Fasc. 1-5 @ 1/ each ... 

 Bala Bhatti, Vol. I, Fasc. 1 



Baudhayna Srauta Sutra, Fasc. 1-2 @ /6/ each ... 

 *Bhamati, (Text) Fasc. 4-8 @ /6/ each 

 Bhatta Dipika, Vol. I, Fasc. 1-4 

 Bphaddevata, (Text) Fasc. 1-4 @/6/ each 

 Brhaddharma Parana, (Text) Fasc. 1-6 @ /6/ each 

 Bodhicaryavatara of Oantidevi, Fasc. 1-2 

 Catadusani, Fasc. 1 



Catalogue of Sanskrit Books and MSS., Fasc. 1-4 @ 2/ each 

 9atapatha Brahmana, Vol. I, Fasc. 1-7; Vol. II, Fasc. 1-4 

 ^atasahasrika Prajnaparamita, (Text) Part I, Fasc. 1-7 @ /6/ each ... 

 •Catnrvarga Chintamani, (Text) Vols. II, 1-25 ; III, Part I, Fasc. 



1-18, Part II, Fasc. 1-10 @ /6/ each ; Vol. IV, Fasc. 1 ... 

 91okavartika, (English) Fasc. 1-4 ... 

 •<;!ranta Sutra of Apastamba, (Text) Fasc. 4-17 @ /6/ each 



Ditto Qfinkhayana, (Text) Vol. I, Fasc. 1-7; Vol. II, Fasc. 



1-4; Vol. Ill, Fasc. 1-4 @ /6/ each ; Vol. IV, Fasc. 1 ... 

 gri Bhashyam, (Text) Fasc. 1-3 @ (61 each 

 Dan Kriya Kaumudi, Fasc. 1-2 

 <xadadhara Paddhati Kalasara Vol. I, Fasc. 1-6 ... 



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