PKOCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



for February, 1869. 



The General Monthly Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was 

 held on Wednesday, the 3rd February, at 9 o'clock p. m. 

 T. Oldham, Esq., LL. D., President, in the chair. 

 The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 

 The following presentations were announced. 



1. From Babu Madhava Krishna Setha, a specimen of a fungus 

 from the neighbourhood of Calcutta. 



2. From Col. R. E. Oakes, a box of flint implements collected in 

 the neighbourhood of Jubbulpore. 



The following letter, addressed to Col. Gastrell, accompanied the 

 donation. 



" My attention was first drawn to these relics of past ages, by the 

 late Lieut. Sweeney, of the Bombay Engineers who discovered num- 

 bers of them, lying about on the hills and high ground in and around 

 Jubbulpore, and at a little distance below the surface. 



" The geological formation of the Jubbulpore Basin has been exa- 

 mined by the G-eological Survey of India, and I will, therefore, 

 merely describe, as nearly as I can, the sites on which I have found 

 the greater number of the specimens. They are limited to three or 

 four spots. 



" The first and the most prolific bed occurred on the top of the hill 

 north-east of Jubbulpore, at present used as a sanitarium for the 

 Jubbulpore European troops. The flints were scattered about in 

 considerable numbers on the surface ; I must have collected some 

 hundreds from this site alone, many of which I afterwards discarded 

 as mere fragments, and very imperfect. They all, however, bore dis- 



