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Foe March, 1859. 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 

 was held on the 2nd instant. 



Lieutenant-Colonel Strachey, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The proceedings of the February meeting were read and con- 

 firmed. 



Presentations were received. 



1. From the Home Government of India, certain copies of Se- 

 lections from the records of the Madras Government. 



2. From the Bengal Government, certain copies of Selections 

 from the records of the Bengal Government. 



3. From W. H. Smoult, Esquire, a copy of " Memorandum on 

 the Province of Assam" by G. E. Barry, Esq. 



4. From Henry Remfry, Esq., Attorney at Law, a copy of his 

 tract " On the Nature and Use of the Indian Bael in Diarrhoea, Con- 

 sumption, &c." 



5. From Captain H. Strachey, five rare MSS. ; viz., 3 vols, of 

 the Persian Tarikhi Hyderi, by Mirza Hyder, and the Diwans of two 

 Turki poets. 



6. From D. I. Money, Esq., B. C. S., 4 Sepulchral Alabaster 

 Urns found in Thebes, in 1846. 



The following is an extract from the letter accompanying them : — 

 "My dea.e Atkinson, — I brought with me from Thebes in 

 1846, four Sepulchral Alabaster urns, which were found in a tomb not 

 far from the Tombs of the Kings. They contained some part of 

 the human body mummied, but the contents in moving about have 

 been lost. The top of each is separate, and represents one of the 

 Egyptian deities. You can easily recognize their Jupiter Ammon, 

 Anubis, and the Cynocephalus, and the 4th must be familiar to the 

 Asiatic Society, to whom I wish you to present them. One of the 

 urns has been broken and another repaired. There are therefore 

 only three, with four tops ; one has a saucer at the bottom on which 

 the urn rested." 



The thanks of the Society were specially voted to Mr. Money 

 for these valuable presents. 

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