1877.] Oldham Memorial. 71 



then. In the paper on the Geological Survey of Ohio, Vol. I, 1873, he de- 

 scribed the Invertebrate Fossils of the Silurian and Devonian systems of 

 Ohio, with 23 Plates, and, only a short time before his death, he completed 

 his great work on Cretaceous and Tertiary Invertebrate Fossils of the Up- 

 per Missouri country in one large quarto volume. His death is certainly 

 a great loss to American palaeontology and to science altogether. These 

 few notes would be sufficient to show his thorough knowledge of Zoological 

 Palaeontology in all its branches, but it was to be hoped that a more 

 complete biography of Mr. Meek would be given .hereafter. 



The Peesident announced that arrangements had been concluded for 

 obtaining a memorial bust of Dr. Oldham by Mr. Geflowski. 



The Secretary read an extract from a letter from the Vice-Presidents, 

 Hofrath von Hauer, Director of the Imperial Geological Institute, and 

 Hofrath Brunner von Wattenwyl, and Herr Doblhoff, Secretary, stating that 

 they had established a Scientific Club at Vienna, (9, Eschenbach Gasse) and 

 hoped that Members of the Asiatic Society would become guests or foreign 

 members of the Club when they came to Vienna. 



On the proposal of Mr. H. F. Blanford, seconded by Col. H. L. Thuil- 

 lier, C. S. I., a vote of thanks to the Club for their kind and hospitable in- 

 vitation was unanimously agreed to. 



Dr. RXjeisdralala Mitra submitted to the inspection of the meeting a 

 copper-plate grant sent to him for examination by Mr. E. T. Atkinson of 

 Allahabad. It had been obtained from the Rawal of Badrinath, resident at 

 Pandukesvar through Sir Henry Ramsay. It measures 24 by 16 inches, 

 and has a scalloped head on the left side, 5 inches high. In the middle o£ 

 the head is let in a thick lead seal, 3 inches in diameter, about half an inch 

 of its side standing above the surface of the plate, and projecting a quarter 

 of an inch behind. The seal bears the figure of a bull couchant in bas-relief, 

 and a legend in two lines of writing in relief. The inscription on the plate, 

 extending to 29 lines, runs lengthwise from end to end, the last line being 

 in several places detached, and the spaces filled up by ornamental scrolls, 

 representing longitudinal halves of serrated leaves. The letters are of the 

 Kutila type, and the language is Sanskrit. (Plate I.) 



The subject of the record is the gift of two wards (palli), one named 

 Khasiyaka in the sub-division or village of Saurunnosa, and the other 

 named Guggula in the subdivision or village of Panibhuti, both situated 

 in the district (visJiaya) of Kartikeyapura, to a Brahman named Parayana 

 Bhattaraka, for the worship of a goddess in the village of Saurunnosa. 

 The grant was made on the day when the summer solstice began, on the 3rd 



