PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



For February, 1867. 



The monthly meeting was held on Wednesday the 6th February, 

 1867, at 9 p. m. 



Dr. J. Fayrer, President, in the chair. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following presentations were announced. 



From Lieutenant-Colonel B. Ford, Superintendent, Port Blair; 

 a box of mineral specimens. 



2. From H. B. Webster, Esq., Officiating Collector, Bulandshuhar ; 

 a copper plate inscription found in a ruined Gurbee situated in Mouzah 

 Manpore, Pergunnah Agowtha. 



Mr. Blanford, on the part of the Rev. ^r. Henderson, exhibited a 

 specimen of printing in a new kind of Arabic type, the invention of the 

 Rev. M. Jules Ferette. 



With reference to the type, Mr Blochmann said ; — 



" The Arabic print, which Mr. Blanford has kindly exhibited, is very 

 interesting, as it is a specimen of a simple but very elegant invention. 

 To print Arabic texts with the vowel points is a matter of some 

 difficulty, as the diacritical points are generally put up in separate 

 rows above and below the text. Mr. Ferette of Damascus has suc- 

 ceeded in printing Arabic texts with the vowel points in a single line. 

 This he accomplishes — 



1. By omitting unnecessary points, as the jazm and the tvasl. 



2. By putting between every two consonants a small joining 

 stroke. 



