640 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [No. 7. 



For December, 1852. 



At a meeting held on the 1 st instant, at the usual hour and place, 



Sir James Colvile, Kt. President, in the Chair, 



The following gentlemen were introduced as visitors : 



Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Victoria, hy the Lord Bishop oi 

 Calcutta. 



Rev. T. V. French, by the Rev. W. Kay. 



The proceedings of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following presents, received during the last month, were laid on 

 the table. 



1st. From Dr. Christison, Rangoon. Two specimens of the 

 Corydon sumatranus, Raff, shot near Amherst. 



2nd. From Professor Oldham. Two musical instruments of ingenious 

 construction, one of them used by the Kashiyas of Cherra Punji, and 

 the other by the Kookees of Cachar. 



3rd. From J. Muir, Esq. A Sanskrit tract entitled Matapariksha, 

 or an Examination of Religions. Part I. with an English translation. 



4th. From E. A. Samuells, Esq. A sculptured figure of Vishnu, 

 found some years back in excavating a tank at Bhowanipur. 



5th. From Baron M. de Korff, Director of the Imperial Public 

 Library at St. Petersburgh, and Secretary of State, by order of his 

 Imperial Majesty, Catalogue des Manuscripts et Xylographes Orientaux 

 de Bibliotheqae Imperiale Publique de St. Petersburgh. 



6th. From Mr. Stainforth, through Captain Thuillier. Five silver 

 coins with the brass pot in which they were found, and which was dug 

 up from the ruins of Gour. 



Copies of the Heads exhibited by Major Baker at the last meeting, 

 kindly made by Mrs. Raleigh in China clay, were also placed on the table. 



The Council submitted a report recommending, at the suggestion of 

 the Philological Committee, that the offers of Dr. Ballantine and Mr. 

 Hall to edit the Sdn/ehya Pravachana Bhdshya and to supply an 

 English translation,, and of Dr. Sprenger to edit an Arabic Dictionary of 

 technical terms for publication in the Bibliotheca Indica, be accepted. 



Ordered that the recommendation of the Council be adopted. 



Communications were received — 



— From E. C. Bayley, Esq. Kote Kangra, forwarding for the Journal, 

 a memoir on Indo-Bactrian Antiquities, with thirteen drawings. 



