1836.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 373 



Literary and Antiquities. 



Read a letter from R. D. Mangles, Esq. Secretary to the Government 

 of Bengal, Judicial Department, transmitting on behalf of the Right Ho- 

 nourable the Governor of Bengal, a Census of the population of the town 

 of Gyah and its suburbs, framed under the superintendence of Mr. Ha- 

 thorn, the Magistrate of Behar. 



A note on the origin of the Armenian era and the reformation of the 

 Haican Kalendar, by Mr. Johannes Avdall. 



Read a letter from L. Wilkinson, Esq. Agent at Bkopal, forwarding the 

 copy of an inscription on a copper -plate lately found at Piplianagar in 

 the Shujal Perganah, by a krisan, or husbandman, in ploughing ; with an 

 English translation. 



Read a paper by Major Lloyd, on the sacred silken vests of the Tibe- 

 tan priests, alluded to in Turner's Embassy. They are adorned with 

 images, and have a lettered border of sacred texts woven into the scarf: 

 one of these had been submitted to Mr. Csoma de Koros, and by him 



translated. 



[This note will be printed in our next.] 



Mr. Hodgson forwarded an amended list of the Sanscrit Bauddha works 

 procurable in Nepal. Such as have been sent home to Paris or London, 

 were noted by an asterisk. 



Physical. 



A note on the progress of the boring in Fort William was read by 

 Capt. Taylor, Town Major. [Vide infra.] 



A memorandum of a well sank in the Chandpur bunds, near the foot of 

 the Sewalik range, was likewise communicated by Lieutenant Baker, 

 Engineers. 



A descriptive catalogue of part of the Society's collection of Silhet 

 shells, was received from Mr. W. H. Benson, IVl. A. S. 

 [Printed in the present number.] 



A letter from Lieutenant Geo. Fulljames, giving further detail of the 

 fossil discoveries at Perim, and announcing the despatch of specimens for 

 the Society's museum. 



[As this letter arrived while the Baron Hugel's note was in the press, the 

 interesting particulars it contained were appended to that paper ; see last No. 

 p. 290.] 



Mr. B. H. Hodgson transmitted 27 further specimens of his Illustra- 

 tions of Nipalese Zoology ; also papers, 



On three new genera of thrush. 



On three new species of woodpecker. 



Dr. W. Cantor submitted his sketch of an undescribed hooded ser- 

 pent with fangs and maxillar teeth, accompanied with coloured drawirigg 

 on a large scale. 



Dr. N. Wallich presented two papers on new genera of plants, by Dr. 

 Griffiths, to which the author has given the names of Bucklandia and 

 Sedgwickia. 



[These will be inserted in our next.] 



