JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



Vol. LXV. Part II, No. 1.— 1896. 



EDITED Br 



Jhe Natural History Secretary. 



" The bounds of its investigation will be the geographical limits of Asia : and 

 within these limits its inquiries will be extended to whatever is performed by 

 man or produced by nature." — Sir William Jones. 



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 to whom all orders for the work are to be addressed in India ; or care of 

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1896. 



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