376 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [March. 



Baboo Dwarkanauth Bosc, M.R.C.S.E., proposed by Dr. D. Stewart- 

 seconded by Mr. Blyth. 



Rev, A. Sandberg, Benares, proposed by the Rev. J. Long, seconded 

 by Mr. J. Ward. 



Rev. William Keane, M. A., Emmanuel College, Cambridge, pro-* 

 posed by the Lord Bishop, seconded by Dr. Q'Shaughnessy. 



J. Kerr, Esq., Hindu College, proposed by Dr. Q'Shaughnessy, se- 

 conded by Lieut. -Col. Forbes. 



The following gentlemen were proposed as candidates for election : — ■ 



The Rev. S. Slater, proposed by Rev. J. Long, seconded by Rev. J. 

 II. Pratt. 



Count Lackersteen, proposed by Mr. Blyth, seconded by Mr. Laidlay. 



D. Money, Esq. C. S., proposed by Dr. Q'Shaughnessy, seconded by 

 Mr. Welby Jackson. 



Lieut. Staples, Bengal Artillery, proposed by Mr. Laidlay, seconded 

 by Dr, O' Shaughnessy. 



The subjoined letter from Mr. Carre Tucker should have appeared 

 among the proceedings last month. The box of shells and bones to 

 which it refers was exhibited at the January meeting. 



To the Secretary of the Asiatic Society, Calcutta. 



Sir, — I did myself the pleasure of sending you a few days ago, a box of bones, 

 found at a place called Umhut, on the Koana Nuddee, which flows from Oudh, and 

 joins the Gogra at Gopalpore. A bridge is building near the spot ; and the con- 

 victs in digging for Kunkur, came upon what would appear to be a pit filled with 

 shells, deers' horns, and all sorts of bones. It appears to be about 12 or 15 feet 

 deep. The size is not yet known ; but many thousand maunds of shells have 

 already been dug out for lime. The termination of the bed of shells, where we 

 have come upon it, is perpendicular, like the side of a pit. The site is some jungle 

 close to the high bank of the Nuddee. 



No one in the neighbourhood can make even a tolerable guess how this immense 

 mass of shells and bones could have come where we find them. There is no village 

 any where near. Some of the people think that some great man in former days 

 must have intended to build a bridge where mine is now building, and have collected 

 the shells for lime. Others, that a mahajun may have collected them for export- 

 ation ; but neither of these hypotheses will account for the large quantity of horns 

 and bones found amongst the shells. Perhaps the most general belief is, that an 

 Asur lived there, and that he was in the habit of chucking into this pit. the bones of 

 the men and animals he devoured, as also the shells of the fish he was forced to eat 

 when he could get nothing belter to devour ! ! ! 



