PROCEEDINGS 



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OF THE 



ASIATIC. SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



Fob June, 1864. 



The monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 

 was held on the 1st instant. 



Captain W. N. Lees, Vice-President, in the chair. 



The proceedings of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



Presentations were received — 



1. From L. Bowring, Esq., copies of Photographs of some In- 

 scriptions found at Anantpur. 



2. From Babu Eamchunder Mitra, copy of a report of a meeting 

 of the Bethune Society held on the 10th September, 1863, and the 

 address to Dr. Duff from the Society, with his reply. 



8. From Lieutenant E. C. Beavan, specimens of schorl in quartz 

 and Zoological specimens, namely, two specimens of Bung arus candidus, 

 one of Calotes versicolor, a skin of Felis Jacquemontii and one of a 

 species of Lepus ; also two Bear's skulls. 



4. From Capt. A. K. Comber, Deputy Commissioner of Debrooghur 

 through Major D, Briggs, the skin of an Arctictis Bmturong, from 



, the Burhampooter river. 



5. From Babu Eajendra Mullick, dead specimens of Dmmaius 

 Novce Hollandicd and Strutliio Camelus. 



6. From T. Tomlinson, Esq , on behalf of His Excellency the 

 Governor-General, a dead Tiger from the Barrackpore Park Menagerie. 



7. From J. E. Macdonald, Esq., a leaf cloak such as is in common 

 use among the K61 labourers at Hazaribagh. 



8. From Lieutenant- Colonel E. C. Tytler through A. Grote, Esq. 

 a specimen of a new species of Varanus from the Andaman Islands. 



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