PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL 



Foe September, 1859. 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society was held 

 on the 7th instant. 



A. Geote, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



The Proceedings of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 

 Presentations were received — 



1. From the Principal, Grant Medical College, Bombay, a copy 

 of the Report of that Institution for the Session 1858-59. 



2. From the Bombay Government, a copy of the Annual Report 

 on the Sind Forests, for the year 1858-59. 



3. From Captain Hodge, in command of the Sesostris guard 

 ship, at Port Blair. Numerous specimens illustrative of the Zoology 

 of the Andaman Islands. 



4. From Captain Eales, commanding the Fire Queen, an exam- 

 ple of the gigantic cobra (ILamadryas vit&atus,) also from Port 

 Blair, 



5. From Babu Rajendra Mallika. A dead Orang-utan. 



6. From Major S. R. Tickell, Maulmein, skins of a rare squirrel 

 and of a white-headed Halcyon. 



7. From Captain Jethro Fairweather. Skull of a Dolphin, taken 

 in the Bay of Bengal. 



8. From Major R. C. Tytler, another skull of a Dolphin, taken 

 westward of the Cape of Good Hope. 



The following gentlemen duly proposed at the last meeting were 

 ballotted for and elected ordinary members :-— 



