PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



For July 8f August, 1883. 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was 

 held on Wednesday, the 1st August, 1883, at 9"15 p. m. 



The Hon'ble H. J. Reynolds, President, in the Chair. 



The Council reported that no meeting was held in July as a quorum 

 of members was not present. 



The minutes of the June meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following presentations were announced : — 



1. From the Secretary of State for India, — (1) The Vinayapitakam, 

 by Dr. H. Oldenberg, Vol. V. ; (2) Miiller's "Sacred Books of the East," 

 Vols. XVII, XIX, and XXIII. 



2. From the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences, — (1) Cataloo-us 

 der Numismatische Afdeeling van het Museum ; (2) Chineesch-Hollandsch 

 Woordenboek van het Emoi Dialekt, by J. J. C. Francken and C. F. M. 

 de Grijs. 



3. From the Authors and Translators,— (1) Offenes Schreiben als 

 Antwort auf Herrn Baron Osten-Sacken's " Critical Eevievv" meirier Arbeit 

 iiber die Notaeanthen, by Friedrich Brauer ; (2) The Religious Sects of 

 the Hindus, Part III, by Okhoy Kumar Dutt ; (3) The Development of 

 the Mineral Resources of India, by A. N. Pearson ; (4) Sanskrit Worter- 

 buch by Otto Bohtlingk, Part IV ; (5) On some Effects produced by 

 Landslips and Movements of the Soil-cap, and their resemblances to pheno- 

 mena which are generally attributed to other agencies, and (6) On recent 

 additions to our knowledge of the Gold-bearing Rocks of Southern India 

 by V. Ball -, (7) Catalog der Conchylien-Sammlung, by Fr. Paetel ; (8) 



