182 ITemorlcd io the late Dr. F. StoliezJca. [AUGUST, 



T. Templet onii. Hab. Ceylon. 



T. cenea. Hab. Himalayas. 



T. Grayii. Hab. Canara, Malabar Coast. 



The President announced that the Council propose to commemorate the 

 services of their late Natural History Secretary, Dr. Stoliczka, by a suitable 

 memorial, and had appointed a Committee to ascertain in what way the 

 proposal could best be carried out. A circular on the subject would be 

 issued in due course. 



The following papers were read — 

 1. Note on a Picture representing tlie taking of JPalamaii hy Ddud Khan, 

 AurangziVs General. — By Col. E. T. Dalton, C. S. I. 



Col. Dalton gives in this note a description of a picture representing 

 the taking of Palamau, in Chutia Nagptir, by Daud Khan, Aurangzib's 

 general. 



The picture, which is in the possession of Daud Khan's descendants 

 at Daudnagar, is on cloth and is about 30 feet by 12 feet. It represents the 

 several stages of the fight which led to the capture of Fort Palamau on the 

 20th December, 1660, as related in Journal, for 1S71, Part I, p. 127. Col. 

 Dalton's note is accompanied by a photograph of the picture, taken by Mr. 

 Peppe, a plan of the picture, and two photographs of Fort Palamau itself. 

 The costume of the officers and soldiers as also the ethnic peculiarities of 

 the hillmen and their arms are remarked on [vide loc. cit., p. 132). 



The paper will appear in No. Ill of the Journal, for this year. 



2. Note on Fort Fhddlali near Panduah, Mdldah District. — By E. V. 

 Westmacott, Esq., C. S. 



Mr. Westmacott fixes in this paper the position of Fort Ekdalah, which 

 was twice in vain besieged by Firuz Shah III, of Dihli, when invading Ben- 

 gal during the reigns of Ityas Shah and Sikandar Shah. 



Fort Ekdalah lies N. N. E. of Maldah, about Lat. 25°27^ a little east 

 of the Chiramati, and is marked on the 1-inch-a-mile survey map. It is 

 not given on Sheet 119 of the Indian Atlas ; but the three large tanks near 

 which Ekdalah lies, are prominently marked. 



Mr. Westmacott' s paper will be printed in No. Ill of the Journal, 

 Part I, for this year, and will be accompanied by a map. 



Mr. Blochmann said, there was no doubt that Mr. Westmacott had 

 now fixed upon the true site of Fort Ekdalah. Besides the proofs adduced 

 by him, there was some collateral evidence. Thus the places near Ekdalah 

 were Qa9bah (marked ' Kasba' on Sheet 119), or the ' collectorate,' and 

 Dhanjar itself, after which the parganah, to which Ekdalah belonged, was 



