JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



EDITED BY 



THE SECRETARIES. 



VOL. XXIV. 



Nos. I. to VII.— 1855. 



" It will Bourish, if naturalists, chemists, antiquaries, philologers, and men of science, 

 in different parts of Asia, wili commit their observations to writing - , and send them to 

 the Asiatic Society at Calcutta. It w ijl lang uish if such communications shall be long 

 intermitted ; and it will die away JjCtE^fshij&tH^rely cease." — Sir Wm, Jones. 



CAXCTTTTA 



PRINTED BY J. THOMAS, BAPTIST MISSION PRESS, 

 1856. 



