PROCEEDINGS 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



For April, 1853. 



At a meeting of the Society held on the 6th instant at the usual 

 hour and place, 



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



The minutes of the last month's Proceedings were read and 

 confirmed. 



Donations were received — - 



1. Prom Dr. Campbell, Darjeeling. Two skins of the yellow 

 Pox of Thibet, one young and the other a mature specimen. 



2. Prom Dr. Payrer, Eangoon, a large gilt Pigure of Guadama. 



3. Prom W. GL Young, Esq. Under Secretary to the Govern- 

 ment of Bengal. A map of the district of Monghyr, for the Mu- 

 seum of Economic Geology. 



4. Prom Lieut. E. T. P. Pergusson, Superintendent of the Go- 

 vernment Observatory at Bombay. A copy of the Magnetical and 

 Meteorological Observations made at Bombay, in 1849. 



5. Prom Captain Thuillier, Deputy Surveyor General. A map 

 of the Monghyr district surveyed by Captain Sherwill. 



Ditto of the Northern face of the Vindhya Hills surveyed by 

 Captain Sherwill. 



6. Prom Captain Pearse, Hazara. Pour small copper-plates 

 inscribed with Bactro-Pali characters, excavated from a small mound 

 in the village of Shah Dhairee, on the high road from liawal Pindee 

 to Hazara. 



