1864.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 65 



For December, 1863. 



The monthly general meeting of the Society was held on the 2nd 

 instant. 



A. Grote, Esq., in the chair. 



The proceedings of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



Presentations were received — 



1. From the Assistant Secretary to the Government of India, 

 Foreign Department — a copy of a report by R. H. Davies, Esq., on 

 the trade of Central Asia. 



2. From Baboo Ganendra Mohun Tagore, Professor of Hindoo Law 

 in University College, London — a pamphlet containing the substance of 

 a lecture delivered by him before the Ethnological Society of London, 

 " On the formation and institution of the caste system— the Aryan 

 polity." 



3. From Baboo Prosonno Coomar Tagore— -a copy of his English 

 translation of Vivdda GMntamani from the original Sanskrit of Vachas- 

 pati Misra. 



4. From his Highness the Maharajah of Burdwan~a copy of the 

 Adi and the Sabha parvas of the Mahabharata in Sanskrit, with a 

 Bengali translation, published under his auspices. 



The following gentlemen duly proposed at the last meeting were 

 balloted for and elected ordinary members : — The Rev. M. D„ C. 

 Walters ; A, G. Walker, Esq. ; J> Forsyth, Esq. ; and T. Dickens, Esq. 



W. Murray, Esq., B. C. S. was then proposed by Mr. Cowell for 

 ballot as ordinary member at the next meeting, seconded by Mr. 

 Blanford. 



The Secretary read the following report, which had been adopted by 

 the Council, on a proposition submitted by Mr. C. Home for facilitating 

 a more extended correspondence on Natural History subjects : 



" The practicability of carrying out Mr. Home's proposition depends 

 mainly on the assistance afforded by those interested in its accom- 

 plishment, the Council being unanimously of opinion that a publish- 

 ed list of naturalists, numismatists, and others would be of great 

 assistance to those engaged in these studies, and it is believed that 

 such a list would facilitate the exchange of duplicate specimens, and 

 at the same time enable those interested in special subjects to know in 

 what quarter to apply for information and assistance. 



