PROCEEDINGS 



OP THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



For May, 1900. 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Society was held on 

 Wednesday, the 2nd May, 1900, at 9-.15 p.m. 



F. E. Pargiter, Esq., B.A., I.CS , in the chair. 



Six members and one Visitor were present ; — 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



Twenty-one presentations were announced. \ ^- 



Miss. Butcher, M.D. ; Professor Phani Bhushan Mukerji; Mr. Geoi^e 

 Charles Wolfe ; Captain A. F. McArdle, I.M.S. ; Mr. Adolphe Shra^r ; 

 Kumar Satindra Deya Rai Mahasaya ; and Mr. F. R. Leistikbw, were 

 balloted for and elepted Ordinary Members. 



Mr. R. Greeyen, I.C.S., has expressed a wish to withdraw from 

 the Society. 



Mr. Pargiter exhibited the Timur Kama and other rare Persian 

 works of Shah Jahan forwarded by the Hon'ble Mr. J. A. BourdiHoir, 

 and belonging to the Library of Maulavie Khuda Baksh Khan Bahadur, 

 of Patna. ^'"n 



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