PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL 



For March, 1849. 



At a Meeting of the Asiatic Society held on Wednesday, the 7th 

 March 1849, 



The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop, Vice President, in the Chair. 



The proceedings of the February Meeting were read and confirmed, 

 and the accounts and vouchers of the preceding month were laid upon 

 the table. 



The following gentlemen, proposed as members at the previous meet- 

 ing, were ballotted for and duly elected. 



W. J. H. Money, Esq. C. S. 



Capt. Bazely, Bengal Artillery. 



Read letters — 



From Captain J. D. Cunningham, Political Agent, Bhopal, forward- 

 ing facsimiles of inscriptions from Oodeypore and Rahutgurh, on the 

 Beena river. 



From Charles Huffnagle, Esq. American Consul, forwarding a box of 

 shells and a parcel of books presented to the Society by Henry Wheat- 

 land, Esq., Secretary to the Essex Institute, Massachusetts. 



Read a letter accompanying these donations, in which Mr. Wheat- 

 land proposes correspondence and the exchange of objects of Natural 

 History with the Asiatic Society. Referred to the Section of Natural 

 History. 



From Captain James Abbott, a note on certain remains of Greek 

 Sculpture found at Potowar. 



From Major Boileau, giving a sketch of a small fish that had been 

 swallowed by a snake, and a drawing of the snake's head. 



