JOURNAL 



OE THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



EDITED BY 



THE SECRETARIES. 



VOL. XXV. 



Noa. I. to VII.— 1856. 



" It will flourish, if naturalists, chemists, antiquaries, philologers, and men of science, 

 in different parts of Asia, will commit their observations to writing 1 , and send them to 

 the Asiatic Society at Calcutta. It will l anguis h if such communications shall be long 

 intermitted ; and it will die away, if they shall eiitu'ely cease. "—Sir Wm, Jones, 



PRINTED BY J. THOMAS, BAPTIST MISSION PRESS. 



1857. 



