PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL 



For August, 1849. 



The ordinary meeting of the Asiatic Society held on Wednesday^, 

 the 5th of September, 1849. 



Dr. J. McClelland, Senior Member present, in the chair. 



The proceedings of the last meeting were read and confirmed, and 

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

 table as usual. 



Raja Pratapa Chandra Singha, Babu Rajendra Butto and Captain 

 E. Fytche, having been proposed and seconded at the August meeting, 

 were ballotted for and elected ordinary members of the Society. 



Read letters — 



From Sir H. M. Elliot, K. C. B. Secretary to the Government of 

 India with the Governor General, forwarding " Diary of a Trip to Pind 

 Dadun Khan and the Salt Range," by Mr. Assistant Surgeon A. 

 Fleming. 



From H. Cumming, acknowledging the receipt of a bill of exchange 

 for .3825-10-0, and soliciting the attention of the Secretary to a promise 

 made by him for transmitting to Mr. C. a selection of duplicate shells 

 in return for those already received by the Society in 1843. 



From Lieut. R. C. Wroughton, expressing, on behalf of himself and 

 other surviving relatives of Brigadier Stacy, their heartfelt thanks for 

 the sympathy of the Society on the occasion of the death of that 

 eminent antiquarian, as conveyed in their resolution of September, 1848. 



From Col. J. Low, forwarding the original stone containing the fac- 

 simile of an inscription published in the Journal of the Asiatic Society 

 for July, 1849, 



