PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL 



For November, 1882. 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was 

 held on Wednesday, the 1st November, 1882, at 9.15 p. M. 

 The Hon'ule 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 Committee, — Verhandlungen des Fiinften Internation- 

 alen Orientalisten Congresses gehalten zu Berlin im September 1881. Zweite 

 Theil, erste und zweite Halften. 



2. From the India Office, — Sacred Books of the East, by F. Max 

 Miiller, Vols VIII, XII, XIII and XVI. 



3. From the Home Department, — (1) Pahlavi, Gujarati, and English 

 Dictionary, Vol. Ill, by J. D. M. J. Asana ; (2) An English Persian 

 Dictionary, compiled from original sources, by Arthur N. Wollaston ; 

 (3) The Lepidoptera of Ceylon, by F. Mooie, Parts I— II. 



4. From the Authors, Translators, &c., — (1) Translation of Valmiki's 

 Ramayana in Hindi, by Gopal Sarma ; (2) Tarjuma-i-Alif Laila Ba-Zuban- 

 i-Urdu. Romanized, by T. W. H. Tolbort ; (3) On the Genealogy of 

 Modern Numerals, by Sir Edward Clive Bayley ; (4) On some Mammals 

 from the North West Frontier of Kashmir ; On the Mammals of Gilgit j 

 Description of a New Species of Arvicola from Gilgit ; A Contribution to 

 the Ornithology of Gilgit (in two parts) ; On some Mammals from Kan- 

 dahar, by Dr.. J. Scully ; (5) A Manual of the Land Revenue Systems and 

 Land Tenures of British India, by B. H. Baden -Po well ; (6) Victoria's 

 Flag of Victory, a Poem in Hindi, by Harish Chandra ; (7) Oriental 

 Studies, by Hugh Nevill, Part II ; (8) The Cloud Messenger of Kalidas, 

 rendered into Hindi Verse, with Notes, by Raja Lakshman Singh. 



