PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 
pOR pECEMBER, 1879. 
The monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was 
held on Wednesday, the 3rd instant, at 9 o’clock p. M. 
H. B. Medlicott, Esq., m. a., f. b. s., President, in the Chair. 
The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed :— 
The following presentations were announced— 
I. From the Home, Revenue and Agricultural Department,—(1) 
The Fishes of India, Yol. II, by F. Day; (2) Scientific Results of the 
Second Yarkand Expedition. Mammalia, by W. T. Blanford. 
2. From the Author,—(1) On the connection of the Mons of Pegu 
with the Ivoles of Central India; and (2) On Tibeto-Burniau Languages, 
by Captain C. J. F. Forbes. 
3. From the K. K. Geol. Reiehsanstalt of Vienna,—Die Gasteropo- 
den der Meeres-Ablagerungen der ersten und zweiten Miocanen Mediter- 
ranstufe in der osterreichisch-ungariSchen Monarchic. I Conus, by R. Hoer- 
nes and M. Auinger. 
4. From T. E. Henry, Esq.,—Aeneidea or Critical, Exegetical and 
JEstlietical Remarks on the Aeneis, Vol. II, by J. Henry 
5. From Col. J. F. Tennant,—Researches on the motion of the Moon, 
—Part I, by Professor Simon Newcomb. 
The following gentleman, duly proposed and seconded at the last Meet¬ 
ing, was ballotted for and .elected an Ordinary Member— 
G. S. Leonard, Esq. 
The following are candidates for ballot at the next meeting— 
1. Fred. E. Pargiter, Esq., b. a., c. s., proposed-by H. Beverley, Esq., 
seconded by J. Crawfurd, Esq. 
