PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



For October, 1859. 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society was held 

 on the 12th instant. 



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



The proceedings of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 

 Presentations were received. 



1. From the Superintendent of the Ordnance Survey Office, 

 Southampton, a copy of the account of the Principal Triangulation 

 of the United Kingdom. 



2. From the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 Report of the 27fch Meeting of that institution. 



3. From the Royal Asiatic Society of London, Vol. XVII. P. 1, 

 of the Journal of that Society. 



4. From Prince Mahomed Buhram Shah, two copies of Marsh- 

 man's History of India, translated into Persian by Abdurraheem. 



5. From Dr. G. Buist — A series of specimens of the rocks 

 around Point de Galle. These (Dr. Buist states) were of granite, fresh 

 and decomposed, for the most part devoid of hornblende or mica. They 

 abounded in crystals of cinnamon stone, and scales of iron glance. The 

 specimens shewed the rock in all its stages of decomposition. Pass- 

 ing on the one side to kaolin, on the other to laterite, the quartz 

 in both cases slowly resisting change, but becoming absorbed in the 

 general earthy mass at last. The laterite again was in many cases 

 concentrating its iron into a red-black oxide. In some it had been 

 broken up, and re-cemented into a conglomerate. 



