1853.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 681 



Communications were received — 



1st. Prom Major A. Cunningham, forwarding a plate of Kangra 

 coins, and promising to send a descriptive account of the coins so 

 soon as the plate shall have been engraved. 



The following is an extract from Major C.'s letter. 



" I have made out this plate after examining all "Bayley's coins, 

 which have given me about five specimens in addition to those 

 which I had before ; I have also collated all the genealogies, and I 

 am happy to say that their general agreement with one another and, 

 more particularly, with numerous synchronous Princes in other states, 

 is very satisfactory. The data for establishing the Chronology are 

 sound and good, and as they extend over a considerable period, we have 

 the means of fixing the approximate dates of the earlier Kings. 



" The earliest ascertained date is A. D. 804, and the average 

 length of reign from that time to the present is 1,326 years." 



2nd. Prom Eev. N. Brown of Sibsagur, Assam, enclosing a list 

 of Assamese works published at the American Mission Press at 

 Sibsagur. 



3rd. Prom A. Campbell, Esq., Darjeeling, enclosing an abstract 

 of the Register of rain-fall kept by Dr. Withecombe at Darjeeling, 

 from 1st January to the 1st October, 1853. 



"The maximum fall for a whole year," says Mr. C. "was 135 

 inches in 1850, and the minimum 114 inches in 1852. I believe 

 after a residence of many years that 125 inches may be taken as the 

 average annual fall at Darjeeling. 



" I am not able to supply any detail of the annual rain-fall at 

 Cheera Punjee, but from Lieut. Yule's observation (see Journal 

 Asiatic Society) and from Dr. Hooker's letter to me from that place 

 in 1 850, I believe that the annual fall of rain there varies from 360 

 to 500 inches per annum." 



4th. Prom Capt. Thuillier, communicating a paper entitled 

 " Notes upon some atmospherical phenomena observed at Darjeeling, 

 in the Himalayan Mountains, during the summer of 1852," by Capt. 

 W. S. Sherwill. 



The Librarian and the Curator in the Zoological Department 

 having submitted their usual monthly reports the meeting adjourned. 



Bead and confirmed, 7th Dec. 1853. 



(Signed) J. W. Colvile. 



