PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 



For July, 1885, 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 

 was held on Wednesday, the 1st July, 1885, at 9" 15 p. m. 

 Dr. R. MiTRA, C. I. E., President, in the Chair. 

 The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



Several presentations were announced, as detailed in the Library 

 List appended. 



The following gentleman proposed and seconded at the last meeting 

 was ballotted for and elected an Ordinary Member of the Society. 

 Professor Nilmony Mukerji. 



The following gentleman is a candidate for election at the next 

 meeting : 



John Barnett, Esq., Branch Pilot, proposed by J. Wood-Mason, Esq., 

 seconded by H. B. Medlicott, Esq. 



The President exhibited some Sanskrit manuscripts treating of 

 ancient Hindu Veterinary art. 



Dr. Mitra said — the five MSS. which he laid on the table referred 

 to Veterinary art, a subject which had not yet been noticed by any 

 European orientalist. This was due to the extreme scarcity of Sanskrit 

 works on the subject, and to the neglect with which it had been treated 

 by the modern Pandits of the country. Nor was that a matter of 

 wonder. The later Pandits who wrote Sanskrit works were mostly 

 hermits, yearning for a hereafter, having little care for the affairs of this 

 world, or priests engaged in ritual duties. To them the characteristics 

 and diseases of horses offered no attraction ; so they never studied 



