PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



For December, 1887. 



The monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 

 was held on Wednesday the 7th December 1887, at 9 p. m. 

 E. T. Atkinson, Esq., C. S., President, in the Chair. 



The following members were present : 



Babu Gaurdas Baisak, H. Beveridge, Esq., Babu Saratchandra Das, 

 C. I. E., E. Gay, Esq., Dr. Hoernle, A. Hogg, Esq., E. J. Jones, Esq., 

 Dr. W. King, Rev. Fr. E. Lafont, S. J., C. I. E., C. S. Middlemiss, Esq., 

 Babu Asutosh Mukhopadhyay, L. de Niceville, Esq., Moung Hla Oung, 

 Esq., H. M. Percival, Esq., T. A. Pope, Esq., Pandit Haraprasad Sastri, 

 Mania vi Gholam Sarwar, D. Waldie, Esq. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



Eighty-nine presentations were announced, as detailed in the 

 appended Library List. 



The following gentlemen have expressed a wish to withdraw from 

 the Society : 



J. R. Napier, Esq. 

 Lt.-Col. W. E. Gowan. 



The Secretary reported the death of the following Member of the 

 Society : 



Babu Rakhal Das Haldar. 



The President announced that the Council had sanctioned the 

 following works for publication in the Bibliotheca Indica : 



1. The commentary on the Nyayavindu, by Dharmostaracharya, to 

 "be edited by Professor Peterson, of Bombay. 



It is in contemplation to print the Tibetan text of the work pari 

 passu with the Sanskrit, and Professor Peterson has been asked how 

 the arrangement can be best carried out. 



