PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



For November, 1883. 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was 

 held on Wednesday, the 7th November, 1883, at 9 p. M. 



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

 The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 

 The following presentations were announced : — 



1. From Dr. Rajendralala Mitra, — Eleven facsimiles of Inscriptions 

 from Deoghar. 



2. From the Authors, — (1) The Quatrains of Omar Khayyam, by 

 E. H. Whinfield ; (2) History of Burma, by Lieut.-General Sir Arthur 

 P. Phayre ; (3) De Paris au Japon en 90 Jours, by Edward Cotteau ; 

 (4) Regeneration of India, by Gopinath Sadashivji Hate ; and (5) The 

 Rivers of the Vedas and how the Aryans entered India, by Edw. Thomas. 



3. From the Bengal Government, — The Flora of British India, by 

 Sir J. D. Hooker, Vol. III. 



4. From the Home Department, — Thirty-seven volumes of Triibner's 

 Oriental Series. 



5. From the Home Department, Forest Branch, — (1) Suggestions 

 regarding Forest Administration in the Hyderabad Assigned Districts, by 

 Dr. W. Schlich ; (2) Review of the Forest Administration in the several 

 Provinces under the Government of India, for 1881-82 j and (3) Sugges- 

 tions regarding Forest Administration in the Central Provinces, by Dr. 

 W. Schlich. 



6. From the Hungarian Academy, — (I) A Magyarok eredete Eth- 

 nologiai Tanulmany, by Armin Vambery ; and (2) A Magyar Kotoszok, 

 by Zsigmond Simonyi, Vol. II. 



