PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



For January, 1874. 



The Monthly General Meeting of tbe Society was held on Wednesday, 

 the 7th instant, at 9 o'clock p. m. 



Col. H. Hyde, E. E., President, in the chair. 

 The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 

 The following presentation was laid on the table : 

 From E. C. Atkinson, Esq., a List of Kumaon Plants by Dr. Watson. 

 The Secretary read a memorandum from Mr. Atkinson asking any 

 member interested in the subject to add to or correct the list for the final 

 list to be incorporated with the Kumaon Memoir. 



The following gentlemen duly proposed and seconded at the last meet- 

 ing were balloted for and elected ordinary members — 

 C. F. Magrath, Esq., C. S. 

 J. L. Peppe, Esq. 

 C. Heintze, Esq. 

 The following gentleman is a candidate for ballot at the next meeting — 

 Dr. C. J. Jackson, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of 

 Bengalj proposed by Captain J. Waterhouse, seconded by Dr. T. R. Lewis. 

 The following have intimated their desire to withdraw from the Society — 

 W. Eddowes, Esq., M. D. 

 G. E. Ward, Esq., C. S. 

 C. Brownfield, Esq. 

 Col. F. H. Rundall., R. E. 



Mr. H. B. Medlicott exhibited five specimens of the Khairpur Meteo- 

 rite of the 23rd September, 1873, and read a description by the Rev. M. 



Yeates, 



The Council reported that they propose Mr. Jules Schomburgh as an 

 Associate Member of the Society on the grounds of his knowledge of Indian 

 Architecture and his scientific skill in illustrating Indian Palaeontology. 



