MEMOIRS 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 
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Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Beng^al. 
Progress Statement, revised to November, 1925. 
Vol. I. 
I. On certain Tibetan Scrolls and Images lately brought fromGyantse. — By MM. S. CH.VH>yiBH0SAiirA. (Rs. 1/2/-.) 
II. Sal-Ammoniac : a Study in Primitive Chemistry. — By H. E. StapIjETON. { Price Rs. 1/2/-.) 
III. The Similarity of the Tibetan to the Kashgar-Brahmi Alphabet. — By A. H. Francke. (Price Rs. 3/6/-. ) 
IV. Alchemical Equif)ment in the Eleventh Century, A.D. — By H. E. Stapleton and R. F. Azo. (Price Re. i/ii/-.) 
V. Malaysian Barnacles in the Ind. Mus., with a list of the Indian Pednnculata. — By N. AnnandalE. (Rs. r/2/-.) 
VI. Ashrafpur Copper-plate Grants of Devakhadga. — By Ganga Mohan Laskar. fPrice R.s. 1/2/-.) 
VII. Festivals and Folklore of Gilgit. — By Ghxji.am Muhammad. (Price Rs. i/ii/-.) 
(Note. Page-numbering mistakenly the same as for No. VIII ; namely, 93-128.) 
VIII. Notes on the Bhotias of Almora and British Garhwal. — By C. A. SherRING. (Price Rs. i 2/-.) 
(Note. Page-numbering mistakenly the same as for No. VII ; namely, 93-120.) 
IX. Religion and Customs of the Uraons. — By the late Rev< Fathek Dehon, S.J. (Price Rs. 2/4/-.) 
X. Notes on the Fauna >f a Desert Tract in Southern India (Herpetolo-^y and Entomology). — By N. Annandale, 
with a list of Mammals by R. C. VVroughton. (Price Rs. 3/6/-.) 
XI. Amulets as Agents in the Prevention of Disease in Bengal. — Comp. in Office of .Supt. ot Ethnogr., Bengal. (Rs. 1/2/-.) 
XII. Earth-Eating and the Earth-Eating Habit in India. — By D. Hooper and H. H. Mann. (Price Rs. i 11 -.) 
XIII. On a Cup-Mark Inscription in the Chumbi Valley.— By E. H. C. Wai.sh. (Price Rs. 1/2/-.) 
XIV. A Descriptive List of the Sea-Sna Aes (Hydrophiidae) in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. — By P. Wah. (Rs. 2/4/-,) 
XV. Common Saws and Proverbs collected, chiefly from Dervishes, in Southern Persia. — By D. C. PhilloTT. (Rs. i/li/-.) 
XVI. The Common Hydra of Bengal : its Systematic Position and Life History. — By N. AnnandalB. (Rs. 1/2 -.) 
XVII. Animals in the Inscriptions of Piyadasi. — By Monmohan Chakravarti. (Price Rs. -/'9/-.) 
XVIII. Some current Persian Tales told by Professional Story-Tellers . — By D. C. PhilloTT. (Price Rs. i/i i/-.) 
XIX. The Dards at Khalatse in Western Tibet.— By A. H. FranckE. (Price Rs. 2 '4/-.) 
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