1864.] 



Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 



597 



Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa, by 

 Captain W. C. Harris. 



The Birds of India, by Dr. T. C. Jerdon, Vol. III., 2 copies. 



Deutsches Worterbuch, von Jacob Grimm, und Wilhelm Grimm, 

 Vol. V. Part I. 



Lalgopal Dutt. 



2nd November , 1864. 



Foil December, 1864. 



The monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 

 was held on the 7th instant. 



Colonel II . Strachey, senior member present, in the chair. 



The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Mr. Oldham desired to correct a misapprehension which had taken 

 place in the report of what he had said at the Meeting in December 

 last. He said that Dr. Gerard had sent a collection to Mr. Buckland 

 and the Asiatic Society had sent one also, and that Dr. Gerard's was 

 the first ; — not that Dr. Gerard's collection reached home before the 

 collection sent from Calcutta. Professor Phillips with characteristic 

 caution had left the matter where he found it. 



Mr. Blanford reminded the Meeting that, on the occasion referred 

 to, he had reduced the argument of the validity of the Oxford fossils 

 as affording evidence of the authenticity of the disputed specimens in 

 the Society's Museum to one crucial question, viz., " Could it be 

 proved by a comparison of dates, that Dr. Buckland's fossils reached 

 England before the Society's collection reached Calcutta?" To this 

 question he, and he believed others at the Meeting, had understood 

 Mr. Oldham to reply that he had not his notes with him at the time, 

 but he knew that he had notes of the dates required, and that they 

 shewed that Dr. Gerard's fossils could not have been sent from the 

 Society's Museum. Mr. Blanford still thought that it would aid the 

 settlement of this question if Mr. Oldham would place his notes upon 

 record in the Society's proceedings. 



Mr. Oldham replied that he had some notes, but he declined to 

 produce them. 



Mr. Blanford remarked that in that case the whole matter remained 



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