1874.] B. Banerji — Identification of Aboriginal Triles. 7 



deposited sheet of copper while the superfluous deposit is being reduced. 

 The time occupied in performing the operation is not of much consequence, 

 compared with the importance of keeping the plate undamaged, but in 

 the trials already made, it was found that the time required was really less 

 than would have been occupied by ' knocking up,' and afterwards having to 

 restore damaged work, and as the operation can go on during the night very 

 little working time need be lost. The expense is a mere trifle, and the mani- 

 pulations are so simple, that any European pr native engraver could easily 

 learn them. 



I cannot of course claim any originality in the process beyond the 

 modifications made in the European methods, but as it is does not appear 

 to be practised in England, I venture to bring it to the notice of the Society 

 especially on account of the valuable aid it is likely to render in the pro- 

 duction of the engraved sheets of the Atlas of India now rapidly progress- 

 ing under the personal superintendence of the Surveyor General, and the 

 possibility of its useful application to other purposes in the arts. 



Colonel Thuillier said he thought the subject Captain Waterhouse had 

 brought before the meeting was one of much interest and importance ; not 

 only in a professional sense as regarded his own department, but also 

 in the interests of the Society and scientific objects generally. Colonel 

 Thuillier could vouch for the very great importance of this mode of dealing 

 with valuable copper plates, and the improvement it aflbrded on the old 

 system. Captain Waterhouse had worked it out in a ver^^ practical manner 

 and he was therefore entitled to the thanks of the meeting for his useful 

 and interesting paper. 



3. I^eiv Bimnese Plants, Part II. — By S. Kuez, Esq. 



This paper is a continuation of the author's former paper and will be 

 published in the Journal, Part II. 



4. Identification of certain trihes mentioned in tJie Fur anas loitli those 

 noticed in Col. U. T. Dalton's Ethnology of Bengal. — By Ba'eu Kajn^gala'l 

 Banerji, Deputy Magistrate, Cuttack. 



Little has hitherto been done to identify the various aboriginal races 

 casually noticed in ancient Sanskrit literature. The notes on the subject 

 appended to Professor Wilson's translation of the Vishnic Burdna, valuable 

 as they are, as embodying the opinions of a thorough scholar and a man of 

 vast experience, are nevertheless brief, obscure and often unsatisfactory, par- 

 ticularly regarding those races whose representatives are now no longer extant, 

 or are few, insignificant or widely scattered. Particular races, such as the 

 Coles, the Bheels and the Khonds, have been described at greater length in 

 many essays and reports ; but in their cases attention has been confined to 



