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CONTENTS. 



Page 



Monthly General Meeting ... ... ... .,. ... 79 



Presentations .., ... ... ... ... ... tb. 



Election of Members ... ... ... ... ... ... ib. 



"Withdrawal of Members ... ... ... ... ... t&. 



Election of Honorary Members ... ... ... ... ... 80 



Mr. Frank Finn — Appointed a member of the Council and Anthropological 



Secretary ... ... ... ... ... ... 81 



Dr. A. Alcock — Appointed to ofl&ciate as General Secretary ... ... ib. 



Dr. A. F. R. Hoernle — Exhibition of four copper coins of Abdagases and Kad- 



phises II, with new legends in Bactrian characters ... ... ... 82 



Dr. A. F. R. Hoernle — Exhibition of a number of small fragments of Ancient 



Manuscripts from Central Asia ... ... ... ... ... 84 



Philological Secretary — Exhibition of two rare Assam Coins forwarded by Mr. 



E. A. Gait ... ... ... ... ... ... 85 



Philological Secretary — Note on the Chinese equivalent for Raijgamati ... 87 

 Dr. G. A. Grierson — Note on an early supposed Bangali version of the Lord's 



Prayer ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 88 



Papers .•— 



1. On the Bogam Mint. — By Surgeon-Captain W. Vost, Indian Medical 

 Service. (Title only) ... ... ... ... ... ... 91 



2. On Polarisation of Electrical Bay by double refracting crystals. — By 

 Professor J. C. Bose, b. a. (Cantab.), b. so. (Lond.). (Abstract) ... ... ih. 



3. Materials for a Carcinological Fauna of India, No. 1. The Brachyura 

 Oxyrhyncha. — By A. Alcock, Esq., m.b., c.m.z.s., Superintendent of the Indian 

 Museum, (Title only) ... ... ... ... ... 92 



Library ... ... ... ... ...' ... ... ih, 



LIST OF BOOKS FOR SALE 



AT THE LIBRARY OF THE 



Asiatic Society of Bengal, 

 No. 57, PAKK STREET, CALCUTTA, 



AND OBTAINABLE FROM 

 THE SOCIETY'S AGENTS, MESSRS. LUZAC AND CO., 

 46, Great Russell Street, London, W. C, and 

 Mr. Otto Harrassowitz, Bookseller, Leipzig,. Germany. 



Complete copies of those works marlced loith an asterislc * cannot be supplied — some 



of the Fasciculi being out of stock. 



BIBLIOTHECA INDICA. 



Sanskrit Series. 



Advaita Brahma Siddhi, (Text) Ease. I— IV @ /6/each ... Rs. 1 8 



Agni Pnrana (Text) Ease. II— XIV (g/6/each* ... 4 14 



Aitareya Aranyaka of the Rig Veda, (Text) Ease. I — V @ /6/ each ... 1 14 



Aitareya Brahmanam (Text) Ease I — IV ... ... ... 1 8 



Ann Bhashyam, (Text) Ease. I and II @ /6/ each ... ... Q 12 



Aphorisms of Sandilya, (English) Ease. I ... ... ... Q 6 



Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita, (Text) Ease. I — VI @ jdj each ... 2 4 



Asvavaidyaka, (Textj Fasc. I— V @ /6/ each ... ... ... l 14 



Avadana Kalpalata, (Sans. & Tibetan) Vol. I, Fasc, I— V j Vol. II, 



Fasc. I— HI @ 1/ ... ... ... ... ... 8 



Bhamati, (Text) Ease. II— VIII @ /6/ each • .^ ... ... 2 10 



{Continued on third page of cover.) 



