PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



For February, 1868. 



The monthly general meeting of the Asiatic Society was held on 

 Wednesday the 5th February, 1868 at 9 p. m. 



The Hon'ble J. B. Phear, Vice-President, in the chair. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following presentations were announced — 



From Dr. J. Fayrer ; copy of a lecture by M. Garcin de Tassy ; Cours 

 D'Hindoustani (Urdu et Hindi) a l'ecole imperial et Special des 

 Langues Orientales Vivantes. 



From Col. J. T. Walker, Superintendent of the Great Trigonometri- 

 cal Survey of India ; five copies of Nautical Almanac Circular, No. 11, 

 of the Path of the total phase of the Solar eclipse, August 17 — 18, 

 1868, between Aden and Torres Straits. 



From H. A. Mangles, Esq., through A. Grote, Esq. ; a fragment 

 of a stone hatchet, (Neolithic type,) found six miles north of Mercara 

 in Coorg, on the crest of a hill. 



Mr. Blanford remarked that this was the first time (to his knowledge) 

 that any specimen of the polished or Neolithic type of stone hatchet had 

 been met with in Southern India. Numerous Celts of the same type 

 had been found in Bundelkimd by Mr. Lemesurier and Mr. Theobald, 

 and a fine series of these specimens had been presented by the former 

 gentleman to the Society's Museum and figured in the Society's Journal, 

 Vol. XXXI. p. 327. Stone celts of the chipped or Palaeolithic type, 

 similar to those of the Amiens gravels, had been found by Messrs. Foote 

 and King in the Carnatic, and in September last a number of specimens 

 from other parts of India were exhibited at the meeting of the Society. 

 But hatchets of the type now before the meeting had been found 



