1902.] General Meeting for August, 1902. 71 



The Monthly Greneral Meeting of the Society was held on Wed- 

 nesday, the 6th Augnst, 1902, at 9-15 p.m. 



TfiE Hon. Mr. C. W. Bolton, O.S.I., I.C.S., President, in the chair. 



The following members were present : — 



Mr. J. Bathgate, Rai Chunilal Bose Bahadur, Dr. A. Caddy, Mr. 

 H. Doxey, The llevd. E. Francotte, S. J., Mr. H. H. Hayden, Mr. T. H. D. 

 LaTouche, Captain A. F. McArdle, I.M.S., Mr. J. Macfarlane, 

 Mr. W. C. Macpherson, Kumar Ramesiiwar Maliah, Mr. R. D. Oldham, 

 Mr. W. Parsons, Dr. E. D. Ross, Pandit Yogesa Chandra Sastree, 

 Dr. C. Schulden, Mahamahopadhyaya Harnprasad Shastri, Pandit Satis- 

 chandra Acharyya Vidyabhnshan, Captain H. J. Walton, I.M.S., Mr. 

 H. Wheeler. 



Visitors: — Babu Hiralal Sinha, Mr. T. H. Smith. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



Seventy-two presentations were announced. 



Mr. H. W. Peal was ballotted for and elected an Ordinary Mem- 

 ber. 



It was announced that Lt.-Col. G. M. Porter, R.E., had expressed 

 a wish to withdraw from the Society. 



The General Secretary reported the presentation of one gold and 

 one silver coin found in the A lunednaggar District and Ahmedab^d 

 CoUectorate, respectively, from the Honorary Secretary, Bombay Brand), 

 Royal Asiatic Society. 



Mabaraahopadhyaya Haraprasad Shastri exhibited a picture of 

 Prithvi Raj, the Inst Hindu King of Delhi, carrying away Samyukta 

 from the Svayamvara, and also the picture of a Bengali Brahmana who 

 planned the piesent city of Jeypore in Rajputana. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. Some notes concerning the People of Mungeli Tahsil, BiJaspur Dis- 

 trict. — By THE Revd. E. M. Gordon. Communicated by the Anthropological 

 Secretary. 



(Abstract.) 



This paper from its detailed nfiture does not tend itself to summaris- 

 ing. The first part deals with the separate castes, for instance, the 



