PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 
For January, 1862 , 
The Annual General Meeting of the Asiatic Society was held on 
the 15th instant. 
A. Grote, Esq., President, in the chair. 
The following resolution proposed by Sir Bartle Frere and second¬ 
ed by Captain W. N. Lees, was carried unanimously. 
That this meeting not having been called in strict accordance 
with Rule 46, the meeting resolves that the present shall be held to 
be the Annual Meeting, 
The following gentlemen duly proposed at the last meeting were 
balloted for, and elected ordinary members. 
Major D. Briggs (re-elected), G, E. Ward, Esq., C. S., and W. 
King, Junior, Esq. 
The following gentlemen were named for ballot at the next 
meeting. 
Colonel H. Torrens, proposed by the President, seconded by Sir 
B.'Frere. 
Captain E. Smyth, proposed by the President, seconded by Mr. 
Atkinson. 
Baboo Gour Doss Bysack, proposed by the President, seconded by 
Baboo Rajendralal Mitra. 
Colonel C. S. Guthrie, Bengal Engineers, proposed by Mr. Atkin¬ 
son, seconded by the President. 
The Secretary read the following Report for 1861. 
