PROCEEDINGS 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



For Mat, 1857. 



At a Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society held on 

 the 6th instant, 



The Hon'ble Sir James Colvile, Kt., President, in the Chair. 



Presentations were received — 



1. Prom J. Robbins, Master of the Siwiroo, a piece of limestone 

 from Port Alexandria, Sebastopol, being the material of which the 

 original MalakhofF, Constantine, Alexandria and other Ports were 

 constructed. Also a Eussian bar shot and a shell weighing 118 

 lbs. from the same place. 



2. Prom Mr. H. Tucker, Commissioner of Benares, a copy of 

 the map of the village in which the rnins of Sarnath are situated. 



The following gentlemen, duly proposed and seconded at the 

 last meeting, were balloted for and declared elected : Dr. W. C. B. 

 Eatwell, Rajah Prasunonauth Rai Bahadur, of Degaputtie. Rajshye. 



The election of the Venerable Archdeacon Pratt as a member 

 of the Council in the place of Dr. Walker, was confirmed. 



The Council submitted a report by the Committee of Natural 

 History on the state of the Museum, together with the minutes 

 of the Council in reference to it. The Council recommended that 

 the suggestions contained in the report be adopted, and proposed 

 the following resolution. 



" That the Council be empowered to enter into a communica- 

 tion with the Government on the subject of the foundation at 

 Calcutta of an Imperial Museum, to which the whole of the 

 Society's collections may be transferred, provided the locality, 



