PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



For November, 1874. 



The monthly General Meeting of the Society was held on Wednesday, 

 the 4th instant, at 9 o'clock p. m. 



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



The minutes of the last meeting were re'ad and confirmed. 



The following presentations were laid on the table — 



1. From the Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Depart- 

 ment — a set of Photograplis of the paintings in the Ajunta Cave Temples. 



2. From Babu Udaychand Dutt, Civil Medical Officer, Noak'hali, a 

 skull and some bones of a huge sea fish cast ashore on the Island of Sondip. 



Mr. Wood-Mason stated that the bones lying on the table were in all 

 probability those of a small individual of the whale, Balwnoptera indicay 

 of which a gigantic specimen was represented in the Society's collection by 

 the two rami of a mandible and some other bones. The Indian Museum 

 also possessed an almost perfect skeleton of the same species which had been 

 obligingly secured for the collection by the Hon'ble Ashley Eden, having 

 been stranded in the estuary of the Sittang River. The bones now sent in- 

 cluded the skull less the bones of the face, the basihyal with the ankylosed 

 thyrohyals, a perfect scapula, a radius and an ulna of opposite sides, some 

 vertebrae without epiphyses and some epiphyses without vertebrae, some 

 fragments of ribs, &c. Every fragment of the skeleton of these great marine 

 Mammals was of value, and these bones, their fragmentary condition notwith- 

 standing, would form a valuable addition to the Museum, but it was much 

 to be deplored that the donor did not sooner make up his mind to forward 

 them, while they were more perfect and more numerous. 



3. From Sharif Salim Ahmad Sahib, Bombay — 'a copy of the Vichar 

 Sagar, a Sanskrit work on Vedantic philosophy. 



4. From L. Schwendler, Esq. — a copy of his ' Instructions for the 

 electrical testing of lines and offices, No. III.' 



