PROCEEDINGS 



* OP THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETr OF BENGAL, 



For December, 1897. 



The Montlily General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 

 was held on Wednesday, the 1st December, ]897, at 9 p.m. 



Dii. A. F. R. HoERNLE, C.I.E., President, in the chair. 



The following members were present : — 



Dr. A. Alcock, H. K. W. Arnold, Esq., Dr. T. Bloch, F. Finn, Esq.^ 

 The Bev. H. B. Hyde, C. Little, Esq., L. de Niceville, Esq., R. D. 

 Oldham, Esq., A. T. Pritigle, Esq., F. J. Rowe, Esq., Pandit Haraprasad 

 pastri, Pandit Mahendra Nath Vidyanidhi, 



Visitor : — Professor S. Levi of Paris. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



Seventy-one presentations, were announced, details of which are- 

 given in the Library List appended. 



The following gentlemen duly proposed and seconded at the last 

 meeting of the Society were ballotted for and elected Ordinary- 

 Members : — 



Captain Stuart H. Godfrey, 



Mesrovb S. Seth, Esq. 



W. A. Talbot, Esq, 



The following gentlemen are candidates for election at the- 

 next meeting : — 



Captain P. R. T. Gurdon, Deputy Commissioner, Gauhati, proposed 

 by E. A. Gait, Esq., seconded by Dr. A. F. R. Hoernle. 



W. K. Dods, Esq., Hongkonof and Shanghai Banking Corporation, 

 proposed by F. Finn, Esq., seconded by Dr. A. Alcock. 



