PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



For November, 1867. 



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A General Meeting of the Society was held on Wednesday, the 6th 

 instant, at 9 p. m/ 



Dr. S. B. Partridge, Vice-President, in the chair. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



Presentations were announced : — 



1. From Colonel C. S. Guthrie ; 79 Sheets of the Ordnance Survey 

 maps of England. 



2. From Captain R. A. Cole ; a copy of his Elementary Grammar of 

 the Coorg language, 



3. From Colonel J. T. Walker ; copies of the administration report 

 of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, and of the Topographical 

 Survey in the Bengal Presidency, for 1864-65 and 1865-66. 



4. From Babu Kedarnath Banerjee, the publisher ; a copy of Chanda- 

 kaushika Ndtaka, with commentaries. 



5. From Pundit Satyabrata Swami ; the first No. of Pratna-Uamra- 

 nandini. 



6. From F. Cockburn, Esq. ; a specimen of Sciurus palmarum. 



7. From J. Avdall, Esq. •; a fossil elephant tooth from Caunti. 



8. From John S. Harris, Esq. ; a copy of a Japanese and English 

 Dictionary. 



9. From Babu Jadunath Datta, a young Crocodile. 



At the invitation of Dr. Partridge, Captain Anderson introduced two 

 Andamanese lads to the meeting. He also laid before the meeting the 

 following correspondence detailing the objects for which the boys had 

 been brought to Calcutta. He had found them apt at learning the names 



