PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



POR NOYEMBER, 1857. 



The monthly general meeting for November was held on the 4th 

 instant. 



The Hon'ble Sir J. Colvile, Kt., President, in the chair. 



The proceedings of the October meeting were read and confirmed, 



A presentation was received from the Royal Observatory, Green- 

 wich, of a copy of " Tables de la Science, construites d' apuis le 

 Principe Newtonien de la Gravitation TJniverselles," by P. H, 

 Has sen. 



The appointment of Captain C. H. Dickens and Mr. Cowell as 

 members of the Council, in the room of Dr. Spilsbury and Arch- 

 deacon Pratt; was confirmed. 



The election of Mons. Robert Schlagintweit as a corresponding 

 member of the Society, was again postponed, under rule 6 of the 

 Society's Bye-laws. 



A note from Captain Haughton, withdrawing from the Society, 

 was recorded. 



Communications were received. — 1. Prom Mr. H. Piddington, a 

 paper on the spontaneous combustion of Coal. 



2. — Prom Mr. B. H. Hodgson, C. S., a description of a new 

 species of Himalayan Mole — Talpa microura. 



3. — Prom the same gentleman, a series of "Vocabularies, &c, as 

 named in the following extract from his letter, dated 9th October 

 last. 



" I am sending you by post through the Bengal Secretary, A. E. 

 Young, Esq., four big letters, containing two series of Vocabularies, 

 each in two parts, being, 1st those of the broken tribes of the 



