1838.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society, 89 



That, in order to profit by Professor Wilson's most welcome sugges- 

 tion, and to obtain a lasting memorial of Henry Thomas Colebrooke to 

 be placed in the Society's library, a subscription be set on foot among 

 members of the Society in Calcutta and in the Mufasal. 



It was further resolved that should the sum raised be more than suffi- 

 cient to cover the expence contemplated, Mr. Wilson should be requested 

 to procure, if possible, a similar memorial of Sir William Jones, if there 

 be any monument in England from which a good bust can be copied. 

 And as the sum raised for Dr. Mill's portrait was also sufficient to pay 

 for a bust by Chantrey, it was determined to modify the former resolution, 

 and to request Dr. Mill also to sit to this eminent sculptor ; by which 

 means the Society will become possessed of four monuments of its most 

 eminent orientalists, equally ornamental and durable. 



Antiquities. 



Mr. D. Liston forwarded facsimiles (or rather impressions) of the in- 

 scription on the Kuhaon and Bdgelpur pillars in the Gorakhpur district. 

 [Published in the present Journal.] 



Mr. J. H. Batten presented an impression of the inscription on the tem- 

 ple of Bdgheswar ( Vydgreswara ) in Kemaon, with drawings of the old and 

 modern temples there, and a Nagari report drawn up by the priests of the 

 place, of the princes who formerly reigned in that district. 



Capt. J. Campbell, Asst. to the Commissioner, Ganjam, at the request 

 of Mr. Wilkinson sent for presentation the Gumsur copperplate grants of 

 which a lithograph and translation were published in the Journal, vol. VI. 



Mr. L. Wilkinson, presented for deposit in the Society V museum the 

 Piplianagar plates, translated by him in the Journal for July 1836. 



The Secretary exhibited to the members present a number of Bactrian 

 and Indo-Scythic coins collected by Captain Burnes at Cabul and from 

 Bokhara. 



Among them were three Indo-Sassanians dug up at the former place, which had 

 enabled him to interpret the Sanskrit marginal legend of two similar coins found at 

 Manikydla, by Genl. Ventura. It proves to be a translation of the usual Pehlevi 

 titles of the Persian monarchs of the Sassanian dynasty. 



Mr. M. Kittoe presented for the museum, 6 arrows used by the Paiks 

 in the Kattak hills : — a Kund arrow from Boad ; a Sikh spear. 



Also, a small stone with inscription from the fort of Kattak, and a fac- 

 simile of another from the same place. 



Various weapons used in Nipdl were presented by Mr. B. H. Hodgson. 



Physical. 



Fourteen boxes of geological specimens collected in the Shekdwati coun- 

 try by Mr. Edmund Dean, were presented in his name to the museum ; 

 with a descriptive catalogue. 



Mr. B. H. Hodgson presented a variety of the fishes of the sub-Hima- 

 layan streams preserved in spirits. Dr. McClelland had examined 

 and named these, and made drawings of such as were new. 



List of Fishes presented to the Asiatic Society, by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



1 Cyprinus mola, Ham. Figured Ganget. Fishes. 



2 Cyprinus calbosus, ditto ditto ditto. 



3 Cyprinus bacaila, ditto ditto ditto. 



4 Cyprinus putitora. 



5 Cyprinus shacra, and 



6 Cyprinus chagunio of Hamilton, unfigured and not received in consequence 



by the naturalists of Europe. 



7 Cyprinus, a new species. 



8 Cyprinus, probably new. 



9 Achirus new ? 



10 Bola coitor, Ham. Figured and described in Ham. Gang. Fishes. 



11 Pimelodus tengana, ditto ditto. 



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