PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCETY OF BENGAL, 



For January, 1881, 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was 

 held on Wednesday, the 5th of January 1881, at 9 P. M. 

 H. B. Medlicott, Esq., F. R. S., in the Chair. 

 The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 

 The following presentations were announced — 



1. From Dr. R. L. Mitra— Nidana, a Sanskrit system of Pathology, 

 translated into Bengali by Uday Chand Dutt. 



2. From the Meteorological Reporter for Western India, — (1) Brief 

 sketch of the Meteorology of the Bombay Presidency in 1879, (2) Ab- 

 normal Variations of Barometric Pressure in the Tropics and their relation 

 to Sunspots, Rainfall and Famine. 



3. From the Hon'ble Whitley Stokes,— Uber die Sprache der 

 Etrusker, (2 vols.), by W. Corssen. 



4. From the Madras Government, — Report on the Amravati Tope, 

 and excavations on its site in 1877, by R. Sewell. 



5. From the Department of the Interior, U. S. America, — History 

 of the North American Pinnipeds by J. A. Allen. 



6. From the Home, Revenue and Agricultural Department, — 

 (1) Report on the Amravati Tope, and excavations on its site in 1877, 

 by R. Sewell, (2) Max Muller's Sacred Books of the East, Vols. IV, 

 V, and VII. 



7. From the Authors, — (1) An account of the Country traversed 

 by the second column of the Tal-Chotiali Field Force in the spring of 

 1879, by Lieut. R. C. Temple, (2) Gulshan-i-Raz, the Mystic Rose Garden 

 of Sa'd-ud-din Mahmud Shabistari, by E. H. Whinfield. 



8. From Pandit Mohanlal Vishnulal Pandia, — Nos. 1 — 9 of Haris- 

 chandra Chandrika and Mohan-chandrika. 



