PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL 



For March, 1851. 



The Society met on the 5th instant at the usual hour and place. 



The Honorable Sir James Colvile, President, in the Chair. 



The proceedings of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following gentlemen, proposed and seconded at the last meeting, 

 were balloted for and elected. 



Br. A. Sprenger. 



J. H. B. Colvin, Esq. 



Bdbu Jddabakrishna Sinha, was named for ballot at the next meet- 

 ing, — proposed by Mr. E. Blyth, and seconded by Mr. Heatly. 



Read letters — 



From E. Lushington, Esq., T. C. Sandes, Esq., J. B. Elliot, Esq., 

 W. J. H. Money, Esq. and W. Greenway, Esq. intimating their resig- 

 nation as members of the Society. 



From the Hon'ble Colonel W. P. Butterworth, Governor of Prince 

 of Wales Island, Singapore and Malacca, and President of the Singa- 

 pore Committee of Arts and Industry of all Nations, transmitting a 

 printed list of the articles collected and forwarded to England, by the 

 Local Committee of Singapore, for the Great Exhibition of 1851. 



From W. Seton Karr, Esq., Under Secretary to the Government of 

 Bengal, forwarding, for the use of the Museum of Economic Geology, 

 a Map of each of the districts of Shahabad and Sarun. 



From Captain Burt, 64th Regiment N. I., forwarding specimens of 

 a large sized oyster found in the Kainh river in Penang. 



From W. Seton Karr, Esq., Under Secretary to the Government of 

 Bengal, enclosing a report on the Adinah Masjid by Captain Gaitskill. 



From W. Seton Karr, Esq., Under Secretary to the Government of Bengal ', 

 To the Vice-President and Secretary, Asiatic Society. 



Fort William, \§th February, 1851. 

 Sir, — In continuation of the letter from this office, No. 913, dated the 11th 

 June last, I am directed by the Deputy Governor of Bengal, to transmit herewith, 

 for the information of the Asiatic Society, a copy of a letter from Captain Gaitskill, 



2 p2 



