1862.] 
Proceedings of the Asiatic Societg. 
89 
February, 1862. 
The monthly general meeting of the Asiatic Society was held on 
the 5th instant. 
A. Grote, Esq. president, in the chair. 
Presentations were received— 
1. From the National Museum at Melbourne, a considerable 
collection of Australian birds and mammals. 
2. From Mr. W. T. Blanford, some specimens of birds and 
fishes from Burmah. 
3. From Captain W. A. Boss, a model of a tin stamping machine 
in use in Cornwall. 
4. From the Surveyor General, several copies of a panoramic view 
of Kashmir, prepared by Captain T. G. Montgomerie. 
5. From the Superintendent, Geological Survey of India, a copy 
of the memoirs of the Survey, containing the first part of “ Palseon- 
tologia Indica.” 
6. From the widow of the late Mr. G. H. Freeling, through Cap¬ 
tain Davidson, Yols. 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 19, of the Journal of 
the Asiatic Society. 
7. From the Superintendent of the Barrackpore Park Menagerie, 
a dead Giraffe. 
8. From M. Biot, through Beverend J. Carbonel, copies of his 
work on Indian Astronomy and his Beview of Beverend Mr. Burgess’ 
translation of the Surya Siddhanta. 
9. From the Bombay Boyal Asiatic Society, a copy of the Jour¬ 
nal, Yol. YI. No. 21 of the Society. 
10. From Mr. W. Matthews, through Capt. J. B. Pollock, a small 
collection of coins. 
11. From Nawab Mehdee Ali Khan Bahadoor, a copy of Diwan 
Nazim, by His Highness Mohammed Yusoof Ali Khan of Bampore, 
K. S. I. 
12. From the Bombay Government, a copy of the Magnetical and 
Meteorological Observations made at the Bombay Observatory in 1860. 
13. From the Syndicate of the Cambridge Observatory, a copy of 
Astronomical observations made at the Cambridge Observatory for 
the years 1852, 1853, and 1854. 
Bev. J. Long exhibited an image of Buddha found in some rail¬ 
way excavations near Mongliyr. 
