PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



For March, 1856. 



The Society met on the 5th inst. at half-past 8 p. m. 



C. Allen, Esq. Sr. Member of the Council present,. in the chair, 



The minutes of the preceding month were read and confirmed. 



Read a letter from W. Muir, Esq. Secretary to the Government, 

 ]NT. W. Provinces, announcing the despatch of four silver coins found 

 near the foundation of an old house in Pergunnah Surgree. 



The following gentlemen, duly proposed and seconded at the last 

 meeting, were balloted for and elected ordinary members, 

 Babu Rajendralal Mittra. 

 J. F. Curtis, Esq. 

 Major R. R. W. Ellis, 23rd Regt. B. ST. I. 



The Council submitted reports — 



1st. Announcing that they have appointed Babu Gour Doss Bysack 

 Assistant Secretary and Librarian to the Society in the room of 

 Babu Rajendralal Mittra resigned. 



2nd. Submitting a list of books required for the Library and 

 requesting permission to devote a sum, not exceeding Rs. 600, to 

 the purchase of them. 



The reports were approved and the proposed expenditure sanctioned. 



Communications were received — 



1. From Babu Radhanath Sikdar, enclosing a register kept by 

 Dr. Withecombe of the mean temperature and fall of rain at Dar- 

 jiling, Sikkim, Himalaya, from 1848 to 1855. 



2. From Mr. Assistant Secretary Carmichael, forwarding a Me- 

 teorological Register kept at the office of the Secretary to the Go- 

 vernment of the N. "W. Provinces at Agra, for the month of Dec. last. 



3. From Dr. Watson, Jessore, submitting the following memo- 

 randum on two hot springs in the village of Kujoorah, 



