CONTENTS. 



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Monthly General Meeting for May 95 



Presentations i&. 



Election and withdrawal of Members 96 



Exhibition of Durrani coins, and note thereon by Mr. M. L. Dames ib. 



Note, by Mr. F. S. Growse, on the word "nuthar" or "nisar" 99 



Papers — 



1. Notes on the Nangis: a'Eeligious Sect. — By J. W. Paeet, 



Assoc. M. Inst. C. E 100 



2. Memorandum on the Superstitions connected with birth and 

 precautions taken and rites performed on the occasion of the 

 birth of a child among the Jats of Hushyarpur, in the Panjab. 

 — By SiEDAE GuEDiAL SiNGH, C. S., Communicated by D. 

 Ibbetson, C. S. (Abstract) 104 



3. A Visit to Kafirisfcan.— By Rev T. P. Hughes, B. D. (Abstract) 105 



Monthly General Meeting for June .^. 107 



Presentations , ih. 



Election of Members ih. 



Withdrawal of Members 108 



Babu P. N. Bose appointed Natural History Secretary ih. 



Appointment of Assfc. Librarian and Copyist ih. 



Letter from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences ih. 



Letters from Mr. W. T. Blanford and Prof. W. D. Whitney 109 



Works sanctioned for publication in the Bibliotheca Indica ih. 



Letter from Mr. V. A. Smith regarding a catalogue of the gold 



coins of the Gupta dynasty 110 



Note, from Mr. H. Rivett-Carnac, forwarding some relics from Er- 



Lannig and a memorandum on the same by the Count de Limur ih. 

 Note, by Mr. C. J. Rodgers, on a nisdr of Shah Jahan in the Delhi 



Museum 112 



Exhibition of a clay seal, sent by Mr. H. Rivett-Carnac 113 



Library... . ......•• ih. 



LIST OF BOOKS FOR SALE 



AT THE LIBEAET OP THE 



Asiatic Society of -Bengal, 



No. 57, PARK STREET, CALCUTTA, 



AND OBTAESTABLE FEOM 



THE SOCIETY'S LONDON AGENTS, MESSRS. TR0BNER & CO. 

 67 AiO) 69, LuDGATE Hill, London, E. C. 



BIBLIOTHECA INDICA. 

 Sanskrit Series. 



Atharvana TJpanishads, (Sanskrit) Fasc. I — V @ J 10} each.. ,, 



Asvalayana Grihya Sutra, (Sans.) Fasc. I — IV @ /lO/ each ,, 



Agni Purana, '(Sans.) Fasc. I— XIV @ /lO/ each 



Aitareya Aranyaka of the Rig Veda, (Sans.) Fasc. I — V @ /lO/ each . . 



Aphorisms of Sandilya, (English) Fasc. I 



Aphorisms of the Vedanta, (Sans.) Fasc. Ill— XIII @ /lO/ each 



Brahma Sutras, (English) Fasc. I . . 



Bhamati, (Sans.) Fasc. I— VIII @ /lO/ each . . 



Brihat Aranyaka Upanishad, (Sans.) Fasc. II— -IV, VI— IX @ /10/each 



Ditto (English) Fasc. II— III @ / 10/ each 



Brihat Saqihita, (Sans.) Fasc. I— III, V— VII @ /lO/ each 

 Chaitanya-Chandrodaya Nataka, (Sans.) Fasc. II — III @ /lO/each 

 Chaturvarga Chintamani, (Sans.) Fasc. I — XL @ /lO/ each ,, 



Chhandogy a Upanishad, (English) Fasc. II ., ,, ., 



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