PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL 



j^or M.AY, 1884. 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was 

 held on Wednesday, the 7th May, 1884, at 9* 15 p. m. 



D. Waldie, Esq., F. 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 Government, North- West Provinces, — -Statistical, Des- 

 criptive and Historical account of the N.-W. P. of India, Vol. XIII, 

 (Farukhabad and Agra) by E. T. Atkinson and F. H. Fisher. 



2. From the Bengal Government, — (1) Returns of Rail Borne 

 Traffic of Bengal, during quarter ending 31st December 1883 ; (2) 

 Report on Municipal Taxation and Expenditure in the Lower Provinces 

 of Bengal. 



3. From the Zoological Record Association, — Zoological Record 

 for 1882, by E. Caldwell. 



4. From the Geological Survey of India, — Memoirs of the Geo- 

 logical Survey of India, Ser. X, Vol. II, Pt. 6, by Dr. R. Lydekker. 



5. From the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool, — 

 Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool, 

 Vols. XXXV, XXXVI and XXXVII. 



6. From the Madras Government, — Annual Report, Madras Medical 

 College, Session 1882-83. 



7. From the Author, On the Discovery of the Periodic Law, 

 and on the Relations among the Atomic Weights, by John A. R. New- 

 lands, F. I. C, F. C. S. 



8. From the Meteorological Reporter to the Government of India 

 — (1) The use of the Spectroscope in Meteorological Observations, being 



