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Febeuart, 1862. 

 The monthly general meeting of the Asiatic Society was held on 

 the 5th instant. 



A. Grote, Esq. president, in the chair. 

 Presentations were received — 



1. From the National Museum at Melbourne, a considerable 

 collection of Australian birds and mammals. 



2. From Mr. W. T. Blanford, some specimens of birds and 

 fishes from Burmah. 



3. From Captain W. A. Ross, a model of a tin stamping machine 

 in use in Cornwall. 



4. From the Surveyor General, several copies of a panoramic view 

 of Kashmir, prepared by Captain T. G. Montgomerie. 



5. From the Superintendent, Geological Survey of India, a copy 

 ef the memoirs of the Survey, containing the first part of " Palaeon- 

 tologia Indica." 



6. From the widow of the late Mr. G. H. Freeling, through Cap- 

 tain Davidson, Vols. 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 19, of the Journal of 

 the Asiatic Society. 



7. From the Superintendent of the Barrackpore Park Menagerie, 

 a dead Giraffe. 



8. From M. Biot, through Reverend J. Carbonel, copies of his 

 work on Indian Astronomy and his Review of Reverend Mr. Burgess' 

 translation of the Surya Siddhanta. 



9. From the Bombay Royal Asiatic Society, a copy of the Jour- 

 nal, Vol. VI. No. 21 of the Society. 



10. From Mr. W. Matthews, through Capt. J. R. Pollock, a small 

 collection of coins. 



11. From Nawab Mehdee Ali Khan Bahadoor, a copy of Diwan 

 Nazim, by His Highness Mohammed Yusoof Ali Khan of Rampore, 

 K. S. I. 



12. From the Bombay Government, a copy of the Magnetical and 

 Meteorological Observations made at the Bombay Observatory in 1860. 



13. From the Syndicate of the Cambridge Observatory, a copy of 

 Astronomical observations made at the Cambridge Observatory for 

 the years 1852, 1853, and 1854. 



Rev. J. Long exhibited an image of Buddha found in some rail- 

 way excavations near Monghyr. 



