PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF.. BENGAL, 



For August, 1877. 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society was held on 

 Wednesday, the 1st August, 1877, at 9 o'clock p. m. 



Rai Rajbndealala Mitea, Bahadur, LL. D., Vice-President, in the 

 Chair. 



The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following presentations were announced : — 



1. From the Author, a copy of his Report on the preparations for, 

 and observations of, the Transit of Venus, as seen at Roorkee and Lahore, 

 on December 8th, 1874. By Colonel J. F. Tennant, R. E., F. R. S. 



2. From the Author, a copy of his work, The Lord's Prayer trans- 

 lated into the Bojingijida ; or South Andaman (Etakabeada) Language, by 

 E. H. Man. 



The following gentlemen, duly proposed and seconded at the last 

 Meeting, were balloted for and elected ordinary Members — 

 Dr. S. T. Peters. 

 J. C. Reeves, Esq. 

 Babu Mahara Chandra Vrata. 

 The following are candidates for ballot at the next Meeting — 

 Babu Pratapanarayana Siiiha, Deputy Magistrate, Jehanabad, propos- 

 ed by Babu Pratapachandra Ghosha, seconded by H. Blochmann, Esq. 



Babu Jnanendrachandra Ghosha, Calcutta, proposed by Babu Pratapa- 

 chandra Ghosha, seconded by H. Blochmann, Esq. 



Babu Kedaranatha Datta, proposed by Babu Pratapachandra Ghosha, 

 seconded by H. Blochmann, Esq. 



Captain H. W. Clarke, R. E., Calcutta, proposed by Captain J. Water- 

 house, seconded by H. Blochmann, Esq. 



