6 Eajendralala Mitra — An Imperial Assemblage. [Jan. 



distinction as a king, the fulfilment of the highest desires, the position 

 of a king, of a great king, and supreme mastership ; that he might cross 

 with his arms the universe, and become the ruler of the whole earth during 

 all his life, which may last for an infinitely long time ; that he might be 

 the sole king of the earth up to its shores bordering on the ocean. 



Owing to the lateness of the hour, the President postponed the reading 

 of the following papers to the next meeting — 



1. Rough JS'otes 07i some Ancient Sculpturings on rochs in Kamcion, 

 similar to those found on monolitlis and rochs in Europe. — Bg H. Eivett- 

 Caenac, C. S. 



2. On the Final Stage in the Development of the Organs of Flight in 

 Ortlioptera. By J. Wood -Ma son-. 



3. List of the Ifollusca collected hg Dr. J. Anderson in Yunan and 

 Upper Durmali, ivith descriptions of neiu species. By G. Nevill, C. M. Z. S. 



4. List of the Mollusca collected hg the late Dr. Stoliczha ivhen 

 attached to the Fmhassg tmder Sir D. Forsgth in Yarhand and Ladak, tvith 

 descriptions of the new species. By Gr. Neyill, C. M. Z. S. 



The Meeting then adjom'ned. 



At the request of the Grovernment of Bengal, the Council have much 

 pleasure in reprinting, for the information of the members of the Society, 

 the following sketch by Mr. Cust of the progress of the researches in the 

 Non-Aryan languages of India, which was originally written for the London 

 Philological Society. They agree with Mr. Cust that vocabularies of the 

 Non- Aryan languages are not w^anting ; but that it is desirable to proceed 

 beyond that stage of inquiry and encourage the composition of practical 

 grammars, and thus lead the way to the drawing up of comparative 

 grammars for the several families of languages. 



The Council have every reason to hope that this important desideratum 

 will in course of time be supplied ; and that some Members of the Society 

 may have leisure to carry out the valuable suggestions made by Mr. Cust. 



On the Non-Aryan Languages of India.— ^y E. N. Cfst, Esq. 



In the Annual Eeport [of the Philological Society] for 1875 a note is 

 inserted on the Aryan and Southern Dravidian languages of British India 

 and its Political Dependencies, using the latter phrase in its most extended 

 sense without reference to the texts of treaties. The out-turn of grammars 

 and dictionaries recorded in that note represents the work of the last 

 quarter of a century. It is now proposed to indicate the languages spoken 

 by residents of British India (exclusive of British Burmah) other than 



