PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 
J^OR jVL AY, 1879, 
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The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was 
held on Tuesday, the 7th May, at 9J o’clock p. M. 
W. T. Blanfoed, Esq., f. b. s., President, in tire Chair. 
The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed :— 
The following presentations were announced— 
1. From the author. A History of the Brahma Samaj, by G. S. 
Leonard. 
2. From the Royal Academy of Sciences, Munich. Catalogus Codicum 
Latinorum Bibliothecse Regime Monacensis. 
3. From the Director of Public Instruction. A Manual of Thibe¬ 
tan, by Major T. H. Lewin. 
4 . From the Superintendent Geological Survey of India. A Ma¬ 
nual of the Geology of India, by H. B. Medlicott, and W. T. Blanford. 
5. From the Smithsonian Institute. Scientific Results of the 
Exploration of Alaska, Article IY, Report on Limpets and Chitons, by W. 
H. Dali. 
6 . From the author. A catalogue of Mammals, Birds, Reptiles and 
Fishes of the Dominion of Canada, by A. M. Ross. 
7. From the author. A Hindi Translation of the Ragliuvansa, by 
Raja Lachman Singh. 
8 . From the Government of Victoria. The Aborigines of 'N icto- 
ria, by R. Brough Smyth. 
9. From the Curators of the Bodleian Library. Catalogus Codi¬ 
cum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecie Bodleianse, Pars. VI, Codices S} riaci, 
Carshunici et Mendsei, by R. Payne Smith, Pars. VII, Codices /Ethiopici, 
by A. Dillman, and Pars. VIII, Codices Sanscritici, by Th. Aufrecht. 
