JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 



PART III.-ANTHROPOLOGY AND COGNATE 



SUBJECTS. 



No.- III.— 1893. 

 CONTENTS. 



Page 



Notes on Anthropology. — By H. H. Risley, Esq., Indian Civil Service; 



Companion of the Indian Umpire; Officier d'Academie Francaise ; 



Director of Ethnography, Bengal ... ... ... 95 



On some Superstitions regarding Drowning and Drowned Persons. —By 



Babij Sarat Chandra Mitra, m.a.-, b.l., Pleader, Judge's Court, 



Chupra ... ». ■•• — ... 100 



On some Beliefs in a Being or Animal which is supposed to Guard 



Hidden Treasure.— By Babu Sarat Chandra Mitra, m.a., b.l., 



Pleader, Judge's Court, Chupra ... ... ... 109 



Appendix— 



Anthropometric Instructions. — By H. H. Risley, Esq., Indian Civil 

 Service; Companion of the Indian Umpire; Offlcier d'Academie 

 Francaise; Director of Ethnography, Bengal ... ... 1 



