PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL 



For July, 1884. 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was 

 held on Wednesday, the 2nd July, 1884, at 9*15 p. m. 



D. Waldie, Esq., F. C. S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 

 The minntes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following presentations were announced : — 



1. From the Archaeological Survey of India, — Report of a Tour 

 in the Central Provinces and Lower Gangetic Doab in 1881-82, by Gene- 

 ral A. Cunningham, C. S. I., C. I. E. 



2. From the Authors, — (1) La Vipera ed il suo Veleno, by Dr. 

 Giuseppe Badaloni ; (2) II Morso della Vipera ed il Permanganato di 

 Potassa, with an English translation, by the same ; (3) On the Relations 

 of Weather to Mortality and on the Climatic effects of Forests by Charles 

 Meldrum, LL. D., F. R. S. ; (4) Synoptic Weather Charts of the 

 Indian Ocean for February 1861, by the same ; (5) Monthly notices of the 

 Meteorological Society of Mauritius, new series Nos. 1, 9-12, by the same ; 

 (6) Proceedings and Transactions of the Meteorological Society of 

 Mauritius, vols. IV, V and VI, by the same ; (7) On the Rotation of the 

 Wind between oppositely directed air-currents in the Southern Indian 

 Ocean, by the same ; (8) On the connection between the relative Positions 

 and Directions of air-currents and the Barometric Pressure in the 

 Southern Indian Ocean, by the same ; (9) Storm Warnings, Cyclone at 

 Mauritius of 20th March 1879, by the same ; (10) Archaeology in India 

 with special reference to the works of Dr. R. L. Mitra, by James Fer- 

 gusson, C. I. E., F. R. S., LL. D., &c. 



3. From Charles Meldrum, Esq., — Some remarks on Cyclones, es- 

 pecially those of the Indian Ocean near Mauritius, by the Venerable 

 Archdeacon Mathews, M, A. 



