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B. Sampson and Babu Govin Chunder Sen, intimating their desire to 

 withdraw from the Society, were recorded. 



The following gentlemen, duly proposed at the last meeting, were 

 balloted for and elected ordinary members. 



T. W. H. Tolbort, Esq., C. S. 

 Major J. Morland. 

 Lieut. W. C. Ramsden. 

 Dr. F. Tonnerre. 

 Dr. Fawcus. 

 Dr. D. B. Smith. 



The following gentleman was named for ballot as an ordinary mem- 

 ber at the next meeting. 



S. Fenn, Esq., proposed by H. F. Blanford, Esq., and seconded by 

 the President. 



The receipt of the following communications was announced. 



1. From Babu Gopinath Sen, Abstract of the Hourly Meteoro- 

 logical Observations taken at the Surveyor General's Office in March 

 and April last. 



2. From the Rev. C. Parish, a few notes of a trip up the Sal ween. 



3. From Babu Rajendralala Mitra, a note " on the Sena Rajas of 

 Bengal as commemorated in an Inscription from Rajshahi." 



The Babu read his paper, of which the following is an abstract. 



The inscription was found in that part of .the Rajshahi distric 

 called the " Burrin," close by the village of Deoparah, Thannah Go- 

 dagari. Mr. C. T. Metcalfe, C. S., to whom the Society is indebted 

 for the stone which bears the inscription as also for a transcript and 

 English, Bengali and Sanskrit translations of the record, says that it 

 was lying in a jungle near a flight of black stone steps, half buried 

 under earth, and close by an old tank. Its purport is the dedication 

 of a temple and a tank to Pradyumnesvara, a form of Siva who 

 was the tutelary deity of the Sena Rajas. The names recorded 

 are those of VijJtya Sena, Hemanta Sena, Sumanta Sena and Vira 

 Sena, the last three being new to history. The name of Vijaya 

 occurs in the Bakerganj plate decyphered by J. Prinsep, and was 

 an alias of Sookh Sena, the father of Balhila Sena. The date 

 of the record, the Babu said, must be the middle of the 11th 



