PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OE BENGAL, 
Eon Juke, 18GL 
Tiie monthly general meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was 
held on the 5tli instant — 
A. Grote, Esq., President, in the chair. 
Presentations were received : — ■ 
1. From Lieut.- Col. J. D. Graham, a pamphlet containing his de- 
monstrations of a Lunar Tidal-wave in the North American Lakes. 
2. From Baboo Rajendra Mallika, specimens of a cassowary and 
a golden pheasant. 
3. From Major G. G. Pearse, Segowlee, the head and horns of a 
wild buffalo. 
The President exhibited a relic from Nimroud, kindly lent to him 
for that purpose by Lady Frere. It was a royal edict in the cunei- 
form character from the imperial record room of that city. 
He further drew attention to a large fragment of the Dhurmsala 
Aerolite, which His Excellency Lord Canning had sent to the Society 
for inspection, and which was on the table before the meeting. This 
piece was intended for dispatch to England, but another smaller 
specimen was about to be presented by His Excellency to the Society’s 
Museum. 
A letter was read announcing the withdrawal of Lieut. W. G. 
Alexander from the Society. 
The following gentlemen duly proposed at the last meeting were 
balloted for, and elected ordinary Members : — - 
J. D. Tremlett, Esq., C. S. 
Maharajah Maun Singh, Bahadur. 
His Excellency Sir W. Denison, K. C. B. 
Captain L. Pelly, Bombay Army. 
