PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL 



For July, 1848. 



At a meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal held at the Town 

 Hall on Wednesday evening, the 5th of July, 1848, J. W. Colvile, 



Esq., President in the Chair, 



The accounts and vouchers for the preceding month were submitted. 



The proceedings of the last meeting were read. 



Dr. J. McClelland and Lieut. J. H. Maxwell having been duly 

 proposed and seconded at the May meeting, were ballotted for and 

 elected members. 



Mr. Edward Colebrooke, Pleader Sudder Dewanny Adawlut, was 

 named for ballot at the August meeting, proposed by Mr. Colvin, 

 seconded by the President. 



Read letters — 



From A. Allen, Esq. Officiating Secretary to the Government N. W. 

 Provinces, dated Agra, 3 1st May, forwarding copy of a Journal of the 

 passage from the Dharee falls to the Herenphal (Nerbudda), by Capt. 

 Fenwick, late of the Nizam's service. 



From the same, dated 28th June, received the 5th July, forwarding 

 an account of observations made by Lieut. R. Strachey, Engineers, on 

 the motion of the glacier of the Pindur in Kumaon. 



From Capt. Thuillier, regarding the form of publication of the 

 Meteorological Register kept in the Surveyor General's Office, also for- 

 warding the Register for June. 



From Mr. Hodgson, Darjeeling, enclosing copy of a letter to Capt 

 Cunningham on Himalayan Geography. 



From the same, a memorandum on the Tibetan type of mankind. 



From Mr. Frith, identifying the insect, of which a drawing was lately 

 received from Brigadier Stacy, as the larva of a species of Locusta, 

 Gen. Acanthodes. 



From Capt. Hutton, notes on the nidification of Indian birds. 



