514 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [No. 5. 



For December, 1859. 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society was held 

 on the 7th instant. 



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



The proceedings of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



Presentations were received — 



1. From C. H. Lushington, Esq., Secretary to the Government 

 of India, specimens of rupees recovered from the wreck of the P. 

 and O. Company's Steamer Ava by the divers of the H. M. S. 

 Retribution, sent by Commodore Edgell. 



2. From the Superintendent Geological Survey of India, memoirs 

 of the Geological Survey, vol. I. p. III. 



3. From the Bombay Government No. 51 of the Selections from 

 its Records being a memoir of the Euins of Babylon, by William 

 Beaumont Selby, with plans. 



4. E. S. Layard, Esq., in charge of the Museum in Capetown. 

 A valuable collection of skins of mammalia and birds from South 

 Africa comprising 28 species of mammalia and 39 species of birds, of 

 which 21 species of mammalian and 18 species of birds are wholly 

 new to the Society's collections. 



5. Babu Rajendra Mullick, several dead birds, comprising one 

 of the desiderata in every zoological museum, a magnificent male 

 specimen of the Golden Pheasant. 



6. Captain Hodge, commanding the guard-ship Sesostris at Port 

 Blair. A further collection of sundries from the Andaman Islands. 



7. Eev. J. Cave-Brown. A collection of reptiles, insects, &c, 

 preserved in spirits from Subhatoo. 



The following gentlemen duly proposed at the last meeting, were 

 ballotted for .and elected ordinary members. 



The Hon'ble J. P. Grant, Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal. 



Moulavee Futteh Ally, serishtadar of superintendent of the 

 Mysore Princes' Office. 



F. A. Goodenough, Esq., and H. Leonard, Esq., C. E. 



The following gentlemen were named for ballot, as ordinary mem- 

 bers at the next meeting. 



Prince Mahomed Jallaluddin of Mysore, proposed by Mr. Atkin- 

 son, and seconded by the President. 



