PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
ASIATIC 
SOCIETY OF BENGAL 
j^oR JVLarch, 1879, 
The monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was 
held on Wednesday, the 5th instant, at 9 o’clock p. m. 
W. T. Blajjpoed, Esq., P. R. S., President, in the Chair. 
The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 
The receipt of the following presentations was announced— 
1. Prom C. H. Dali, Esq. On the Remains of Later Pre-historic 
man obtained from the Caves in the Catherina Archipelago, Alaska Ter¬ 
ritory. 
2. From Babu Ram Das Sen. Aitihasika Rahasya, Parts 1 and III. 
3. Prom the author, Dr. Rajendralala Mitra, Rai Bahadur, c. 1 . E., 
Buddha Gya, the Hermitage of Sakya Muni. 
The following gentlemen, duly proposed and seconded at the last 
meeting, were balloted for and elected Ordinary Members :—• 
C. E. Buckland, Esq., c. s, 
M. von Eetvelde. 
E. O’Brien, Esq., c. s. 
Major J. Biddulph. 
Capt. G. J. von Someren. 
H. C. Levinge, Esq., c. E. 
A. W. Garrett, Esq. 
Major H. S. Jarrett, b. s. c. 
Major J. Herschel, b. e. 
A. Weekes, Esq., c. s. 
R. Pawsey, Esq., 0 . s. 
S. Harraden, Esq. 
The following are candidates for ballot at the next meeting : 
The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Calcutta, proposed by Capt. J. 
Waterhouse, seconded by Mr. W. T. Blanford. 
A. C. Lyall, Esq., c. s., for re-election, proposed by Mr. W. T. 
Blanford, seconded by Mr. C. H. Tawney. 
Babu Ram Saran Das, m. a., Makbulgunj, Lucknow, proposed by Dr. 
R. L. Mitra, Rai Bahadur, c. 1 . E., seconded by Capt. J. Waterhouse. 
