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Proceedings of the Asiatic Society, 



[No. 1, 



Fob February, 1864. 



The monthly general meeting of the Asiatic Society was held on 

 the 3rd instant. 



A. Grote, Esq., senior member, in the chair. 



The proceedings of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



The Chairman informed the Society that the accounts not having 

 been returned by the auditors, it would be necessary to defer their 

 submission to the Society's meeting for another month. 



Presentations were received — 



1. From EL M. Smith, Esq., a dead chicken with four legs. 



2. From Lieutenant E. C. Beavan, specimens of an Albatross and 

 a Tern from the South Seas. 



3. From H. L. Haughton, Esq., specimens of four sea snakes from 

 Hidgelli ; also a white-breasted bat. 



4. From Lieutenant-Colonel Tytler, four large slabs of wood carved 

 with figures of Hindoo idols, from the palace of the Kaiser Bagh, 

 Lucknow ; also a box containing the skeleton of a mule. 



The following extract from a letter which accompanied the presenta- 

 tion was read : — 



" I got these slabs in the palace of the Kaiser Bagh, Lucknow, 

 after the siege. They form a square, and all hook together. The 

 only history I could gather about them was that it was a sort of 

 portable place of pilgrimage representing the holy shrines in the 

 Himalayas for the old, weak, and infirm, who could not undertake the 

 pilgrimage to the real place ; so they had to ascend the steps on this 

 model and offer their offerings at each shrine, &c, presented in the 

 carvings. I have also told Mr. Lazarus to give you for the Museum 

 an old box containing a lot of old bones : it is the skeleton of a mule, 

 JZquus onager. I hope you will find him pretty perfect." 



5. From Lieutenant Waterhouse, several photographs of archaeolo- 

 gical remains in Central India, to replace imperfect prints in the set 

 presented to the Society some months ago. 



The Chairman proposed, on the part of the Council, that the Eight 

 Hon'ble Sir John Lawrence should be requested to become the patron 

 of the Society. 



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