PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 



For August, 1882. 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was 

 held on Wednesday, the 2nd of August, at 9-15 P. m. 



The Hon'ele H. J. Reynolds, President, in the Chair. 

 The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 

 The following presentations were announced: — 



1. From the Museum des Sciences Naturelles de Lyon, — Rapport 

 sur les travaux executes pendant I'annee 1881. 



2. From the Curator, Government Central Book Depot, Bomhay, — • 

 List of Sanskrit MSS. purchased for Government during the years 1877-78 

 and 1879-80, and from May to November, 188 L 



3. From the Meteorological Reporter to the Government of India, — 

 Report on the Meteorology of India in 1880. 



4. From the Home Department, — (1) Selections from the Records 

 of the Government of India, Home Department, No. 185 ; (2) Archaeo- 

 logical Survey Reports, No. XIV. 



5. From the Authors, — (i) Notes on the Zoology of the Himalayan 

 Districts of the North-Western Provinces, by E T. Atkinson ; (2) The 

 Bombay National Mahomedan Association, by Shaik Hyder Cassim ; (3) 

 On a fossil species of Camptoceras, by Lieut. -Col. H. H. Godwin- Austen, 

 F. R. S. 



6. Ten small coins from the Deputy Commissioner of Chhindwara. 



The following gentlemen duly proposed and seconded at the last meet- 

 ing were ballotted for and elected Ordinary Members : 



1. The Hon. Moulvie Mohammad Yusuf. 



2. Moulvie Serajul Islam, B. A., B. L. 



3. Raja Ram Narain Singh. 



