PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



Por November, 1853. 



The Society met on the 2nd instant at the nsual hour. 



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



The proceedings of the last month were read and confirmed, and 

 the accounts and vouchers for the month of September laid on the 

 table. 



Presentations were received — 



1st. Prom the Bengal Government, through "W*. G. Young, Esq., 

 Under-Secretary, for the Museum of Economic Geology. Specimens 

 of Rocks collected by Lieut. Purlong of the 1st Madras Native 

 Infantry, at Kaizawalajong, during a march with a detachment on 

 the route between Padong and the Tongoop pass. 



2nd. Prom J. A. Cockburn, Esq., Superintendent of the Barrack- 

 pore Park. A dead Janghil Bird. Tantalus leucocephalus, Gm. 



3rd. Prom J. Avdall, Esq., a new Dictionary in Italian, Prench, 

 Armenian and Turkish. 



4th. Prom R. Houstoun, Esq., a Mug MS. of medicine entitled 

 Maha-thanada-yea. 



Raja Is'riprasad of Benares was named for ballot at the next 

 meeting ; proposed by Mr. Hall and seconded by the President. 



The Council submitted a report, recommending that a grant of 

 Co.'s Rs. 1000 (one half that amount from the Oriental Pund) be 

 sanctioned for the purpose of four more glazed book-cases ; two for 

 the preservation of the Sanskrita MSS. transferred to the Society 

 from the College of Port William, and the other two for the Society's 

 Library. 



Ordered that the grant asked for by the Council, be placed at their 

 disposal for the purpose in question. 



