PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OE BENGAL, 



For May, 1865. 



The Monthly G-eneral Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was 

 held on the 3rd Instant. 



A. Grote, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



Presentations were announced — 



1. From C. Lane, Esq., Akyab, a specimen of Buceros cavatus. 



2. From E. R. Middleton, Esq., a Locust. 



3. From E. R. Forbes, Esq., specimens of a lumbricoid worm and 

 of a Gordius, captured at Purneah. 



4. From Dr. T. C. Jerdon, a collection of bird skins. 



5. From W. T. Westfield, Esq., a Bhotanese helmet, part of a shell 

 found in the room in which Sir Henry Lawrence died, and four Tablets 

 with Tibetan sacred texts. 



6. From Brigadier General H. Tombs, two tablets- of talcose slate, 

 with the figure of a Namthosra or god of wealth on the one and the 

 Tibetan six-syllabic prayer on the other, found in an old Mutt at 

 Dewanagiri. 



7. From Col. J. C. Haughton, two Tibetan printed books found afc 

 Mynagoree. 



The following is an extract from the letter received with the pre- 

 sentation. 



" The books are no doubt sacred texts. Every monastery has a library 

 of such volumes and every local authority has a monastery attached to 

 his court. 



" At Dumsong the library contained 108 such volumes. At Dalim- 

 kote there was a large library ; but it was unfortunately burnt by our 



