498 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [June, 



The Indian Review and Journal of Foreign Science and Arts for June and Juljt 

 — by Dr. Corbyn. 



A manuscript history of Juanpoor in Persian, lent for the purpose of being copied. 

 Also, the Tohfeh-Tazeh, or history of the present Raja's family of Benares —by 

 Captain A. Cunningham, Engrs. 



Stirling on the countries between Persia and India — presented by the Author. 



Literary. 



Mr. Secretary Macnaghten forwarded on the part of the Right Hon'ble 

 the Governor General in Council, a MS. Grammar of the Brahuiky lan- 

 guage, prepared by Lieutenant R, Leech of the Bombay Engineers. 



A note on the Ruins of old Mandivee in Cutch and a legend of Verjee 

 the son of ViKRAitt aditya, by Lieutenant J. Postans, was communicated by 

 Mr. Wathen, Chief Secretary, Bombay. 



Read a letter from the Rev. Mr. Stevenson of Bombay, forwarding his 

 version of the lat alphabet and inscriptions. 



Mr. Stevenson has made known and lithographed his alphabet, and a portion of 

 the lat inscription as read by him, in consequence of the announcement of the dis- 

 covery of the alphabet in Calcutta which had been communicated to Mr. Wathen, 

 but which Mr. Stevenson honorably requested might not be shewn to him 

 until he had placed his own interpretation on record. The alphabet adopted by* 

 him is essentially different from that obtained by the analysis of the Bhilsa 

 inscriptions, and in applying it to the Delhi lat the author has imagined the lan- 

 guage of the latter to be Sanscrit: and he concludes the pillar to be " a Jayastambha 

 or triumphal column erected by a sovereign of Marwar to celebrate his victories in 

 Hindustan," results altogether at variance with those arrived at here. 



The Secretary was induced by Mr. Stevenson's communication to lay 

 before the Society the transcript and translation he had yet hardly com- 

 pleted of the Feroz lat inscription. 



It will be seen in Article II. of the present No. that the inscription is in the Maga- 

 dhi language, and that it contains a series of edicts connected with the Buddhist 

 faith issued by Devanampiya Piyadasi, a king of Ceylon, who was converted 

 to Buddhism in the reign of Dharma Asoka about 300 years before Christ. 



Captain S. W. Bonham, Dinapore, presented a very small cocoanut 

 obtained at Arracan and considered a curiosity. 



Mr. Hodgson presented a box of Nipal snakes. 



Physical. 



Mr. Seppings presented a piece of copper from the bottom of the shir* 

 Guide or Wm. Wallace, lately struck by lightning while in dock. 



A hole of 8 inches diameter was pierced through the copper, although hardly a 

 perceptible trace was left of the passage of the electric fluid through the plank in 

 contact with it. The mast was shivered. 



M. Delessert exhibited to the meeting the superb ichthyological col- 

 lection made by himself for his uncle at Paris, during a residence of a 

 few months in Calcutta. 



Lord Auckland presented the skeleton of a mouse-deer (Moschus. 

 Javanicus?) mounted in the museum. 



The male and female of Satyra, presented by Dr. A. Campbell, also 

 three jungle fowl, Phasianus g alius, ditto. 



Colonel D. M. Macleod Chief Engineer, presented a third fragment of 

 fossil bone (ferrugenous) brought up by the auger in the Fort from a depth 

 of 375 feet. He subsequently added the following particulars of the pro- 

 gress of the boring : — 



Boring operations at Fort William, July 5th, 1837. 



" The Chief Engineer has the satisfaction of stating that at length a stratum of 

 clay lias been reached, at a depth of 380 feet, and that the auger having penetrated- 

 18 inches further has brought up blue clay mixed with a large quantity of apparently 

 decayed wood, a specimen of which accompanies ; the tubes have only gone down 377, 

 feet, but it is hoped that they may be forced downt hrough the remainder of the bed 



