PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 



For December, 1882. 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was 

 held on ^Wednesday, the Gth December, at 9 p. m. 



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

 The nainutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 

 The following presentations were announced : — 



1. From the Port Officer, Calcutta, — Return of Wrecks and Casual- 

 ties in Indian Waters for the year 1881. 



2. From K. k. zool.-botanische Gesellschaft, Wien, — Die Laubmoos- 

 flora von Oesterreich-Ungarn, by J. Breidler and J. B. Forster. 



3. From the Madras Government, — Archaeological Survey of Southern 

 India. No. 3. The Amaravati Stupa. 



4. From the Author, — Sanskrit Worterbuch in kiirzerer Fassung, 

 Vol. Ill, No. 2, by Otto Bohtlingk. 



5. From the Hungarian Academy,— Magyar-Ugor osszehasonlitd 

 Szotar, Vol. V, by Jozsef Budenz. 



6. From the Royal Society, London, — Catalogue of the Scientific 

 Books in the Library of the Royal Society. Transactions, Journals, Obser- 

 vations and Reports, Surveys, Museums. 



7. From the Smithsonian Institution, — List of Foreign Correspon- 

 dents of the Smithsonian Institution. Corrected to January, 1882. 



8. From the Home Department, — The Plants and Drugs of Sind, 

 by James Murray. 



9. From the Dept. of Mines, Sydney, — Mineral Products of 

 New South Wales, by Harrie Wood ; Notes on the Geology of New 

 South Wales, by C. S. Wilkinson ; Description of the Minerals of New 

 South Wales, by Archibald Liversidge ; Catalogue of Works, Papers, 

 Reports and Maps on the Geology, Palaeontology, Mineralogy, &c., &c , of 

 the Australian Continent and Tasmania, by Robert Etheridge and Robert 

 Logan Jack. 



