29S Proceedings of tlie Asiatic Society. [No. 3. 



Babu Kajendralal Mittra supplied the following information re- 

 garding the plate : — 



The plate is an oblong of 11J inches by 6 inches with an arched 

 projection at one end with two perforations. It has a Sanskrit in- 

 scription of 15 lines on one side and 14 on the other ; the charac- 

 ters being the Gour of the same date as the Backergunge plate 

 noticed in the 8th volume of the Asiatic Society's Journal. The 

 plate has been very much injured by exposure to the atmosphere 

 and the inscription is almost illegible. From a few lines in the 

 centre of the obverse it appears that the plate was inscribed (as ge- 

 nerally such plates are) to record the grant of a piece of land in the 

 Soonderbuns, bounded on the east by » the bank of the Matanga 

 Biver, on the south by the sea and on the west by Kukuta pattana. 

 The date is illegible, but from the occurrence of the name Vaidyaka 

 Sena, and the style of the writing, the gift is supposed to be of the 

 period of the Sena Eajas of Bengal. 



2. From Babu Radhanauth Sickdar, being an Abstract of the 

 Meteorological Register kept at the office of the Surveyor General, 

 Calcutta, for March and September last. 



Lieut.-Col. Strachey explained to the meeting the application of 

 certain sliding scales to arithmetical computation. 



The Librarian submitted his usual monthly report for July last. 



Library. 

 The following additions were made to the Library during July 1858. 



Presentations. 



Annals of Indian Administration. The Indian Official Thesaurus, being 

 Introduction. Compiled by M. Townsend. — By the Home Govern- 

 ment. 



Ditto, Parts III. to VI. — By the same. 



Calcutta Christian Observer for July, 1858. — By the Editors. 



Oriental Baptist, No. 140, for July, 1858. — By the Editor. 



Oriental Christian Spectator for June, 1858. — By the same. 



Report on the Revenue Administration of the Lower Provinces for 

 1856-5/. — By the Bengal Govenrment. 



Ditto on Public Instruction in the Madras Presidency for 1856-57. — 

 By the Home Government. 



