78 Proceedings oftlie Asiatic Society of Bengal. [No. 1, 



7. The Literary Gazette. Nos. 69, 70, 71, 72 of vol. 3rd. 



8. Comptes Rendas Des Seances De L'Academie des Sciences. Tome 

 49. Nos. 12, 13, 14 and 15. 



9. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. No 23, November, 

 1859. London. 



10. Haji Khalfa, a Biographical Dictionary of the Mahomedans, vol. 7. 



For March, 1860. 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society was held on 

 the 7th instant. 



A. Grrote, Esq., President, in the chair. 



The proceedings of the last meeting were read and confirmed : — 



Presentations were received : — 



1. From Rajah Kundurpeshwar Singh, Zemindar of Sarun, six gold 

 coins of his predecessors of different sizes. 



2. From the Bombay Government, No. 54, of the selections from 

 its records. 



3. From the Madras Government, No. 61, of the records of that 

 Government. 



4. From the Superintendent, Bombay G-overnment Observatory, 

 a copy of the Magnetical and Meteorological Observations made in 

 1858. 



5. From M. Zill, a fragment of the egg-shell of the large Dodo- 

 like bird of Madagascar, the J&piornis maximus. (J. GeofroyJ an egg, 

 beside which that of the Ostrich is comparatively diminutive, and 

 which holds about two gallons. 



6. Captain Eales, of the Mre Queen, S. V., a specimen of the Cid- 

 loscyllium plagiosum, (Bennett,) six feet in length, from the Aguada 

 Eeef, the " Sun-fish" of seamen in the Bay of Bengal, found only in 

 shoal water. 



7. Capt. Niblett, of the Sydney S. V. a small specimen of the cu- 

 rio us crustacean, Thálasina scorpionedes, (Leach) forwarded by Mr. 

 Voule of Eangoon, who remarks that " This is a land animal, which 

 the Burmese cali Padzoon Kea or ' scorpion prawn.' It does not live 

 on the surface of the ground, but burrows to a depth of three or four 

 feet in the mud. This specimen was found at that depth." 



