PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 
j^OR jIlJNE, 187 . 9 ., 
The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was 
held on Wednesday, the 4th June, at 9 5 o’clock e. M. 
Dr. S. B. Partridge, in the Chair. 
The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed: — 
The following presentations were announced— 
1. From F. S. Growse, Esq., 4 coins (see p. 173). 
2. From the author, W. L. Distant, Esq., copies of the following 
papers: 
Notes on some Hemiptera Homoptera. 
Description of new Species of Hemiptera ILomoptera. 
The Inhabitants of Car Nicobar. 
Our present knowledge of the Nicobarians. 
Eastern Coolie Labour. 
On Hemiptera from the N. E. Frontier of India. 
3. From the Home Department.—The Life of John Wilson, d. d., 
V. R. s. By George Smith. 
4. From the Bengal Secretariat.—Papers relating to the Collection 
and Preservation of the Becords of Ancient Sanskrit Literature in India. 
By A. E. Gough. 
5. From the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences.— 
Catalogue der Bibliotheek van liet Bataviaasch Genootsehap. 
Verslag der viering van het Honderd-jarig Bestaan van het Bataviaasch 
Genootsehap. 
Kawi Oorkonden, Inleiding en transscriptie, by A. B. Stuart. 
Gedenk Boek, by J. H. der Kinderen, 
