PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 



Foi\ November, 1881. 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was 

 held on Wednesday, the 2nd November, at 9 p. m. 



C. H. Tawney, Esq., M. A., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following presentations were announced — 



From St. Xavier's College Observatory, — Results of Observations, 

 January to June 1881. 



From the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, — (1) Codex Cumanicus 

 Bibliothecae ad Templum divi Marci Venetiarum, by Comes Geza Kuun, 

 (2) Nyelvemlektar. Regi Magyar Codexek es Nyomtatvanyok, Vols. 

 VII and VIII, by J. Budenz, G. Szarvas, and A. Szilady. 



From the British Museum, — (1) Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts 

 in the British Museum, Vols. I and II, by Chas. Rieu, (2) Catalogue of 

 Oriental Coins in the British Museum, Vol. VI, (3) Catalogue of the Birds 

 in the British Museum, Vol. V, by R. B. Sharpe, (4) Illustrations of Typical 

 specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the British 

 Museum, Pt. V, by A. G. Butler. 



From the Editing Committee, The Norwegian North Atlantic Expedi- 

 tion 1876-78, Zoology, Gephyrea, by D. C. Danielssen, and Johan Korea. 



From the Johns Hopkins University, — On the Mechanical Equivalent 

 of Heat, with Subsidiary Researches on the Variation of the Mercurial 

 from the Air Thermometer and on the Variation of the Specific Heat of 

 Water, by Henry A. Rowland. 



From the Home Department, — Sacred Books of the East, Vols. X and 

 XI, edited by Max Miiller. 



From the Society, — Katalog der Bibliothek der deutschen Morgen- 

 landischen Gesellschaft, II. 



From the Authors, — (1) On the Land Shells of the Island of Socotra 

 collected by Professor Bayley Balfour, by Lieut. -Col. H. H. Godwin- 

 Austen, (2) Bilingual Coins of Bukhara, by Edward Thomas. 



