PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



For September, 1884. 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 

 was held on Wednesday, the 3rd September, 1884, at 9*15 p. m. 

 D. Waldie, Esq., F. 0. S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 

 The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following presentations were announced : — 



1. From the Authors, translators, &c, — (1) Description of an 

 Asiatic Species of the Neuropterous Genus Corydalis with plate by J. 

 Wood-Mason ; (2) Notes on the History of Religion in the Himalaya of 

 the N. W. P. of India by E. T. Atkinson, B. C. S. ; (3) Notes on the 

 History of the Himalaya of the N. W. P. of India, by the same ; (4) A 

 contribution to our knowledge of the Embiidce, a Family of Orthopterous 

 Insects, by J. Wood-Mason ; (5) Sanskrit- Wo rterbuch in Kurzerer 

 Fassung, Yol. V, Part I, by Otto Boehtlingk ; (6) Biggyan Shanti Kushum 

 by Radha Prosad Boy ; (7) Lanka Lilium (Sanskrit and English) by 

 Pandit Jogindra Natha Tarkachudamani ; (8) La Nettezza della Persona 

 e della Casa, del Dott. E. Monin, translated by Dr. Giuseppe Badaloni ; 

 (9) Sull' Attuale questione, se il Permanganato di Potassa sia 1' Antidoto 

 del Yeleno dei serpenti, e nuovi studi sul dente velenifero della Vipera, 

 by the same ; (10) The Mahabharata, Part X, by Protap Chandra Roy. 



2. From the Bengal Government, — (1) Report on the Calcutta 

 Medical Institutions for the year 1883 by A. J. Payne, M. D. ; (2) 

 Archaeological Survey Report, Vols. XVII and XVIII ; (3) Report on 

 the Legal Affairs of the Bengal Government for the year 1883-84. 



3. From the Home Department, — Archaeological Survey Reports, 

 Vol. XVIII. 



4. From the Bombay Government, — Bombay Magnctical and Mete- 

 orological Observations, 1879-1882. 



