PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL 



For M.Ar\cH, 1882. 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was 

 held on Wednesday, the 1st March, at 9 p. M. 



The Hon'ble H. J. Reynolds, B. A., C. S., Vice-President, in the 

 Chair. 



The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following presentations were announced : — 



1. From the Public Museum, Buenos Aires, Atlas de la Description 

 Physique de la Republique Argentine. Section I, Vues Pittoresques, 



2. From the authors, — (1) Ancient India as described by Ktesias 

 the Knidian, by J. W. McCrindle ; (2) Jawedan i Khirad, and Izhar i 

 Ihqaq ul Haq, by Mahammad Hussain. 



3. From the Home Department, — (I) Supplement aux Dictionnaires 

 Arabes, Parts 1 — 8, by R. Dozy ; (2) An Arabic-English Lexicon, derived 

 from the best and the most copious Eastern Sources, Book I, Parts 1 — 6, 

 by E W. Lane ; (3) Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon, edited by Stanley 

 Lane Poole, Vol. VII, Fasc. I ; (4) A Tibetan-English Dictionary, by 

 H. A. Jaschke. 



4. From G. Nevill, Esq., — (1) Das Clima von Siid-Afrika mit beson- 

 derer Eiicksicht auf die Culturfahigkeit des Landes,by Dr. Gustav Fritsch ; 



(2) Inscriptions Romaines de Vence (Alpes Maritimes), by J R. Bour- 

 guignat. 



5. From Paolo Mantegazza, President of the Anthropological and Eth- 

 nological Society of Florence, — (1) Studii Antropologici sui Lapponi, by 

 Paolo Mantegazza and Stephen Sommier : (2) La riforma craniologica ; 



(3) 11 terzo molare nelle razze umane ; (4) Saggio sulla trasformazione 

 delle forze psichiche ; (5) Delia capacita delle fosse nasali e degli indici 

 rinocefalico e cerebrofacciale nel cranio umano ; (6) Dei caratteri gerarchici 

 del cranio umano ; (7) Experimentelle Untersuchungen iiber den Ursprung 



