PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



Foe Febbuaey, 1856. 



At a monthly general meeting of the Society held on the 6th inst, 



Sir J. W. Coltile, Kt. President, in the chair. 



The minutes of the December meeting having been read and con- 

 firmed, it was resolved on the motion of the President, seconded by 

 Mr. Grote, 



" That so much of the proceedings just read between the words, 

 ' and sanctioned' and ' Captain Thuillier' be not published as part 

 of the proceedings of the Society." 



Presentations were received — 



1. From Captain Fairweather, two Abyssinian smoking pipes. 



2. From Capt. Shute, ship Sultany, an old wooden quadrant and a 

 meridian instrument found in the island of Madagascar. The instru^ 

 ments are supposed to have been in use by Nacodas about one 

 hundred years ago. 



3. From the Eight Eev. the Bishop of Victoria, a copy of St, 

 Luke's Gospel in Japanese, recently printed from wooden blocks in 

 St. Paul's College, Hongkong. 



4. From the Eight Hon'ble the Governor in Council at Bombay 

 through Lieut. E. T. Fergusson, Superintendent of Government 

 Observatory, a copy of the Magnetical and Meteorological Observa- 

 tions made at the Bombay Observatory in 1853. 



5. From the Government of the N. W. Provinces, seventeen 

 gold coins found in the Gurruckpore district, with a request that 

 the Society would select such as it required for the Museum. 



