PROCEEDINGS 



or THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



Foi\_ M.ARCH, 1872. 



A meeting of the Society was held on Wednesday, the 6th instant, 

 at 9 p. M. 



T. Oldham, Esq., L.L. D., President, in the chair. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following gentlemen are candidates for ballot at the next meeting— 



P. Whalley, Esq., B. C. S., proposed by Mr. H. F. Blanford, seconded 

 by Mr. H. H. Locke. 



Khwajah AhsanuUah, of Dacca, proposed by Dr. James Wise, seconded 

 by Colonel A. S. Allan. 



Dr. Y. Eichard, Civil Surgeon, proposed by Mr. J. Beames, C. S., 

 Balasore, seconded by Mr. H. Blochmann. 



The following have intimated their desire to withdraw from the 

 Society : — Dr. G. W. Leitner ; J. A. Aldis, Esq. ; Khalifah Sayyid Muliam- 

 mad Husain. 



The election of Nawab Ziauddin of Luliarii, Dihli, has been cancelled. 



The following letter from Mr. Wyat was read on a Slioal of Dead Fish 

 in the Indian Ocean. The letter is addressed to Colonel H. Hyde. 



' The circumstances connected with the shoal of dead fish which I 

 mentioned to you as having seen some time since in the Arabian Sea, were 

 shortly as follows. I have no memoranda of the circumstances, but am 

 tolerably certain of both date and locality within the limits I give. 



' The P. & 0. Co.'s Steamer " Madras," on a voyage from Suez to 

 Bombay with H. M.'s mails on board and about 70 passengers, towards the 

 end of September 1867, when between 12° and 13° N. Lat. and 50° and 

 55° E. Long., passed through a large number of dead fish, all tolerably 



