PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL 



For August, 1884. 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was 

 held on Wednesday, the 6th August, 1884, at 915 p. m. 

 D. Waldie, Esq., Vice President, in the Chair. 

 The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following presentations were announced : — 



1. From the Geological Survey of India, — Memoirs of the Geolo- 

 gical Survey of India, Palseontologia Indica, Series XIV, Vol. I, Part III . 



2. From the Chief Commissioner, Central Provinces, — Report on 

 Government Charitable Dispensaries in the Central Provinces for the 

 year 1883 ; (2) Report on the Jails of the Central Provinces for the 

 year 1883 ; (3) Report on the working of the Registration Department 

 in the Central Provinces for the year 1883 ; (4) Report on Sugar Pro- 

 duction in the Central Provinces for the year 1882-83 ; (5) Report on 

 the Nagpur Experimental Farm for 1883-84. 



3. From the Director of Public Instruction, Bangalore, — Naga 

 Varmma's Karnataka Bhasha Bhashana, the oldest grammar extant of 

 the Kannada language. By Lewis Rice, M. R. A. S. 



4. From Prince Roland Bonaparte, — Les Premieres Nouvelles 

 concernant 1' Eruption du Krakatau en 1883 ; (2) Collection Anthro- 

 pologique du Prince Roland Bonaparte : Peaux Rouges, Hindous, Atchi- 

 nois, (Photographs). 



5. From Dr. A. L. Donnadieu, — La Photographie appliquee aux 

 Sciences Biologiques et le Physiographe Universel du Dr. A. L. Donna- 

 dieu, construit par J. B. Carpentier. 



6. From Babu Brojendro Lall Doss, — Asiatic Researches, Popular 

 Edition, Vol. I, No. 2. 



7. From the Authors, — The Shrines of Sitakund in the District 

 of Chittagong in Bengal by Adharlal Sen, B. A. ; (2) Mahabharata, 



