PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



For M.ARCH, 1877. 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society was held on 

 "Wednesday, the 7th inst., at 9 o'clock p. m. 



The Hon. Sir E. C. Bayley, K. C. S. I., President, in the Chair. 

 The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 

 The following presentations were announced — 



1. From the Government of Bombay — 



The Book of Arda Yiraf. By Dr. M. Haug and Dr. E. West, with 

 a Glossary and Index. 



Vendidad, translated into Guzerati, by Kavasji Edabji Kanga. 



2. From Commander A. Dundas Taylor, Superintendent Marine Sur- 

 vey Dept. — 



A list of Light Houses and Light Vessels in British India, including 

 the Eed Sea and Coast of Arabia, corrected up to January 1877, by R. C. 

 Carrington. 



A Chart of the Madras Roadstead Survey, by Lieut. F. W. Jarrad, 

 R. N. and Mr. P. J. Falle. October 1876. 



3. From the authors, copies of the following — 



" The Oriental Sore as observed in India ;" and " Leprosy in India." 

 By T. R. Lewis, M. B. and D. D. Cunningham, M. B. 



4. From the Author, a copy of " The Ramayana of Tulsi Das, Book 

 1, by F. S. Growse. 



5. From the Rev. F. Foulkes, a copy of " Introduction to the 

 Nannul ; The Tamil text and the English Translation." By Rev. H. Bower. 



6. From Mrs. Woodrow, copies of back numbers of the Journals of 

 the Society froni 1851 to 1873 and of the Proceedings from 1865 to 1875, 

 belonging to her late husband. 



The following gentlemen, duly proposed and seconded at the last Meet- 

 ing, were elected Ordinary Members — 



