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Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 



[No. I, 



W. Theobald, Esq., Jr. ; Dr. S. B. Partridge ; H. B. Medlicott 

 Esq. ; and Dr. E. Stoliczka, 



METEOROLOGY ASTD PHYSICAL SCIENCE. 



The Ven'ble J. H. Pratt ; T. Oldham, Esq. ; J. Obbard, Esq. ■ 

 Colonel P. Strachey ; Lieutenant- Colonel J. E. Gastrell ; Lieutenant- 

 Colonel J. T. Walker ; Captain T. G. Montgomerie ; H. Leonard 

 Esq, ; and H. Scott Smith, Esq. 



COIK COMMITTEE. 



A. G-rote, Esq. ; Captain W. JSf. Lees ; and Baboo Eajendralal 

 Mitra. 



COMMITTEE OF PAPERS. 



Colonel E. Strachey ; A. Grote, Esq. ; and E. B. Cowell, Esq. 



The Secretary read the following letter from Mr. Bowring forward- 

 ing copy of an inscription found in the hands of some Brahmins of 

 Anantpore, a village in Mysore : — 



" I send you a copy of a sasliana or inscription on copper, which I 

 found in the hands of some Brahmins of a village in the jungles of 

 Anantpore about four miles N. E. of the Kusba. I copied the first 

 bit myself, and left the sasliana with the tehseeldar, with a view to his 

 getting the rest copied, which he did ; but I cannot say whether it is 

 quite correct, as I did not see the copier and was obliged to leave 

 before he made his appearance. The deed may be of interest. 



" I have seen a vast number of inscriptions on stone slabs, but I 

 believe the whole of these were copied by Walter Elliot. They are 

 all in old Canarese, and I have not seen one in Sanskrit, except one 

 illegible inscription at Banawasi." 



Communications were received — 



1. From Baboo Gopeenauth Sen, abstracts of the Eesults of the 

 Hourly Meteorological Observations taken at the Surveyor General's 

 Office in November last. 



2. Erom Baboo Eajendralal Mitra, a paper on the Buddhist 

 remains of Sultangunge. 



Mr. Blanford read extracts from a paper by W. Theobald, Jr., Esq., 

 entitled " Notes on the variation of some Indian and Burmese Heli- 

 cidse," and made some remarks on the subject of it. 



Mr. Heeley also read extracts from a paper by Dr. J. E. T. Aitchi- 

 son, on " The Vegetation of the Jhelum District of the Punjab." 



