PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OP BENGAL, 



For April, 1866. 

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The monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 

 was held on Wednesday, the 4th instant. 



Babu Rajendra Lala Mitra, senior Member, in the chair. 



The proceedings of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



Presentations were announced : — 



1. From H. F. Blanford, Esq., a copy of the " Pre-historic man" 

 a lecture delivered by him at the Dalhousie Institute, Calcutta. 



2. From J. Murdoch, Esq., a copy of a classified Catalogue of Tamil 

 printed books, compiled by him. 



3. From M. Lloyd, Esq., Tounghoo, a packet of specimens of 

 indigenous tea, supposed to be the same as the Chinese plant. 



The following letter and enclosure which accompanied the donation 

 were read. 



To the Secretary Asiatic Society, Calcutta. 



Dear Sir, — I have the pleasure to inform you that I have despatched 

 to your address a packet containing leaves of, I think, the China Tea 

 plant. 



During a trip over the Karen hills, east of and 30 miles from Toung- 

 hoo, I encamped in a valley called in Burmese " Lekpet Aing" or the 

 "tea lake." On the hills about this valley I found the tea on an 

 elevation of from 3000 to 4000 feet above sea level. I forward an 

 extract from my official journal. 



You will observe from my journal, I note that the leaf answers the 

 description given of the tea leaf. The plantation, (it appears the 

 trees were originally planted, sec my journal,) has now become a 

 wilderness, the bushes have become trees, some 30 to 40 feet high- 



