78 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [No. 1, 



7. The Literary Gazette. Nos. 69, 70, 71, 12 of vol. 3rd. 



8. Comptes Rendus Des Seances De L'Academie des Sciences. Tome 

 49. Nos. 12, 13, Hand 15. 



9. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. No 23, November, 

 1859. London. 



10. Haji Khalfa, a Biographical Dictionary of the Mahomedans, vol. 7« 



Fob Mabch, 1860. 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society was held on 

 the 7th instant. 



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



The proceedings of the last meeting were read and confirmed : — 



Presentations were received : — 



1. Prom Rajah Kundurpeshvvar Singh, Zemindar of Sarun, six gold 

 coins of his predecessors of different sizes. 



2. Prom the Bombay Government, No. 54, of the selections from 

 its records. 



3. From the Madras Government, No. 61, of the records of that 

 Government. 



4. From the Superintendent, Bombay Government Observatory, 

 a copy of the Magnetical and Meteorological Observations made in 

 1858. 



5. From M. Zill, a fragment of the egg-shell of the large Dodo- 

 like bird of Madagascar, the JEpiornis maximus. (J. Geofroy,) an egg, 

 beside which that of the Ostrich is comparatively diminutive, and 

 which holds about two gallons. 



6. Captain Bales, of the Wire Queen, S. V., a specimen of the Chi- 

 loscyllium plagiosum, (Bennett,) sis feet in length, from the Aguada 

 Reef, the " Sun-fish" of seamen in the Bay of Bengal, found only in 

 shoal water. 



7. Capt. Niblett, of the Sydney S. V. a small specimen of the cu- 

 rious crustacean, Thalasina scorpionedes, (Leach) forwarded by Mr. 

 Voule of Rangoon, who remarks that " This is a land animal, which 

 the Burmese call Padzoon Kea or ' scorpion prawn.' It does not live 

 on the surface of the ground, but burrows to a depth of three or four 

 feet in the mud. This specimen was found at that depth." 



