PROCEEDINGS 



or THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 



For December, 1881. 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was 

 held on the 7th of December at 9 p. if. 



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

 The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 

 The following presentations were announced : — 



1. From the Home Department, — Oldenberg's Vinayapitakam,Vol. III. 



2. From the Home Department, Forest Branch, — (1) Report of a 

 visit to the Torrent Regions of the Hautes and Basses Alpes, and also to 

 Mount Faron, Toulon, by E. McA. Moir, — (2) Suggestions regarding 

 the management of the leased Forests of Busahir in the Sutlej Valley of 

 the Pan jab, by Dr. D. Brandis. 



3. From Raja Sourindro Mohun Tagore, — A set of his works in Eng- 

 lish, Sanskrit, Bengali and Hindi. 



4. From the Authors,— (L) The adoption of a Prime Meridian to 

 be common to all nations. The establishment of Standard Meridians for 

 the Regulation of Time, by Sandford Fleming, — (2) An Address to the 

 Fifth International Oriental Congress, 1881, by Dr. Ram Das Sen, — (3) 

 Versuch einer Erklarung der auf einer Gemme im Besitze des Grafen 

 S. Stroganov befindlichen Pehlewi-Inschrift, by B. Dorn, — (4) The 

 Epoch of the Guptas, by Edward Thomas, — (5) On the Land-shells of 

 the Island of Socotra collected by Prof. I. Bayley Balfour, Pt. II, by 

 Lieut.-Col. H. H. Godwin-Austen, — (6) Readings from the Arian Pali, 

 by Dr. A. F. R. Hoernle. 



5. From the Superintendent, Marine Survey Department, — Chart of 

 Curves of Equal Magnetic Variation in the Indian Ocean for 1880. 



6. From the Surveyor General of India, — (1) A copy of the 5th 

 Edition of the Map of Turkestan, and the countries between the British 

 and Russian Dominions in Asia, — (2) Synopsis of the Results of the Opera- 



