PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



for May, 1869. 

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The monthly meeting of the Society was held on Wednesday, the 

 5th instant, 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 receipt of the following presentations was announced — 



1. From Babu Uclayachanda Datta, Civil Surgeon, Purulia, through 

 Babu Rajendralala Mitra, a Sanscrit manuscript in the Oria character, 

 inscribed on palm leaves, containing — 



(a.) A copy of the Paryydya-ratnamdld , or a Vocabulary of Syno- 

 nyms of all articles used in Hindu medicine, compiled by Madhava 

 Kara. 



(b.) A treatise on Indian Materia Medica, entitled by the author 

 Nirghantd raja, alias Abhidhdna-chuddmani, but commonly known by 

 the name of Bdjdnirghanta. The author's name is differently given 

 at the end of the different chapters of the work, as Narahari, Nara- 

 siiigha and Nrihari. The manuscript is incomplete, containing only 

 the first seventeen chapters. 



2. From the Bev. Dr. F. Mason, — the Toungoo News, Vol. V. 

 No. 1. 



The following gentlemen, duly proposed and seconded at the last 

 meeting, were balloted for, and elected ordinary members : — 

 Lieutenant-Colonel D. J. F. Newal, B. A., Mean Meer. 

 B. J. Leeds, Esq., C. S., Chunar. 

 G. Nevill, Esq., C. M. Z. S. 

 S. Kurz, Esq. 



W. Oldham, Esq., LL. D., C. S. 

 B. A. Gubboy, Esq. 



