PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 
For July 1862. 
Tlie monthly general meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 
was held on the 2nd instant. 
Colonel R. Strachey, Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The proceedings of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
Presentations were received— 
From Mr. E. B. Harris, impressions of an inscription on the hack 
of an image of Buddha found in Sultangunge, near Monghyr. The 
inscription contains the Buddhist creed so common on such images. 
2. From Major J. C. Haugliton, a hollow wooden shield from 
Port Blair, used by the natives as a tom-tom. 
3. From Archdeacon Pratt, a copy of his papers from the Philo¬ 
sophical transactions on Mountain and other Local Attraction in 
India. 
Read letters— 
From H. Bell, Esq., intimating his desire to withdraw from the 
Society. 
From the Under-Secretary, Government of Bengal, forwarding an 
extract of the annual general report of the Rajshahi Division giving 
some account of a Cyclone which visited the western part of the 
district in March last. 
From the Under-Secretary, Government of India in the Home 
Department, containing the following extract from the proceedings 
of the Government of India in the Financial Department, with 
reference to the Society’s solicitation for a reconsideration of the 
decision of the late Hon’ble Court on Mr. Blyth’s application for a 
pension. 
