286 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [No. 4. 



Por September, 1857. 



The Monthly General Meeting for September was held on the 2nd 

 instant. 



Major H. L. Thuillier, Senior member present, in the Chair. 



The proceedings of the July meeting were read and confirmed. 

 The August meeting separated without proceeding to business, in 

 consequence of there not being a sufficient number of members 

 present to form a quorum. 



Presentations were received — 



From the Austrian Academy of Sciences at Vienna, the latest 

 publications of the Academy. 



Two coins found at Bali, and purchased for the Society's Cabinet, 

 were exhibited. They were, one of Hossein Shah of Bengal, 917 H. 

 and the other of Nuserat Shah, son of Hossein Shah, 930 H. 



Robert Schlagintweit, Esq. was proposed as a corresponding 

 member of the Society by the President, seconded by Mr. At- 

 kinson. 



Notes from the following gentlemen, announcing their wish to 

 withdraw from the Society, were recorded. 



P. "W. LeGeyt, Esq., C. S., D. G. Nicholson, Esq. J. P. Curtis, 

 Esq., A. E. Young, Esq., C. S., and W. G. Young, Esq., C. S. 



The nomination, which the Council announced in July last, of 

 Lieut.-Col. E. Strachey, as a Vice-President of the Society, in place 

 of Dr. Spilsbury deceased, was confirmed. 



Communications were received — 



1. Prom Babu Eada Nauth Sikdar, an abstract of the Meteorolo- 

 gical Eegister kept in the Office of the Surveyor General for the 

 months of April, May and June last. 



2. Prom Mr. Piddington, " Notes for Ships and Steamers lying 

 in the stream, or at moorings at Calcutta, or near it, and for Eiver 

 boats, on the approach of a Cyclone. 



3. Prom Ditto " Practical notes on the best mode of obtaining 

 the highest duty from Burdwan Coal as compared with English 

 Coal." 



