PERIODICALS PURCHASED.

Calcutta. Calcutta Review,-No. 143, January 1881.

Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, No. 4.

Indian Medical Gazette,-Vol. XVI, No. 1, January 1881. Supplement.

Geneva. Archives des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles,-Vol. IV, No. 12, December 1880.

Giessen. Jahresbericht über die Fortschritte der Chemie, Part 2 of 1879. Göttingen. Gelehrte Anzeigen,-No. 52, 1880, and Nos. 1-2, 1881. Leipzig. Annalen der Physik und Chemie,-Vol. XI, Part 4.

Beiblatter, Vol. IV, Part 12.

London. Philosophical Magazine, Vol. X, No. 64, December 1880.
The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine,-Vol. XVII, No. 199,
December 1880.

The Entomologist, -Vol. XIII, No. 211, December 1880.

The Ibis, Vol. IV, No. 16, October 1880.

Sclater, P. L.-Remarks on the present state of the Systema Avium. Vogt. C.
Archæopteryx macrura, an intermediate form between Birds and Reptiles.
Gurney, J. H.-Notes on a 'Catalogue of Accipitres in the British Museum',
by R. B. Sharpe (1874).

Messenger of Mathematics, Vol. X, No. 7, November 1880.
Journal of Botany, Vol. IX, No. 216, December 1880.

Annals and Magazine of Natural History,-Vol. VI, No. 36, December 1880.

Günther, Dr. A.-Description of Ophites japonicus, a new Snake from Japan.
Journal of Science,- Vol. II, No. 84, December 1880

London. Numismatic Chronicle, Vol. XX, Part 3, 1880.

Society of Arts,-Journal, Vol. XXIX, Nos. 1465-1468.
The Publishers' Circular, Vol. XLIII, Nos. 1038-1039.
Chemical News, Vol. XLII, Nos. 1099-1101.

New Haven. American Journal of Science,-Vol. XX, No. 119, November 1880.

Paris. Comptes Rendus,-Vol. XCI, Nos. 23-26.

Revue Critique, Vol. X, Nos. 50-52, Vol. XI, No. 1.

Revue des deux Mondes,-Vol. XLII, Part 4, and Vol. XLIII, Part. 1.

Journal des Savants, December 1880.

Revue Scientifique, Vol. XIX, Nos. 25-26; and Vol. XX, No. 1.

BOOKS PURCHASED.

GEIKIE, JAS. Prehistoric Europe. Roy. 8vo., London, 1881.

HUME AND MARSHALL. Game Birds of India, Burmah and Ceylon. Vol. III. Roy. 8vo., Calcutta, 1881.

MUELLER, MAX. Sacred Books of the East, Vol. VI, The Qur'an, Part I, and Vol. IX, The Qur'an, Part II. 8vo., Oxford, 1880.

SCHLIEMANN, DR. H. Ilios; The City and Country of the Trojans. Roy. 8vo., London, 1880.

PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL.

FOR MARCH, 1881.

The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was held on Wednesday, the 2nd March, 1881, at 9 P. M.

C. H. TAWNEY, Esq., M. A., Vice-President, in the Chair.
The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed.
The following presentations were announced—

From the Marine Survey Department,-A List of Light-Houses

and Light-Vessels in British India, by R. C. Carrington.

2. From the K. B. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München,-(1) Das Haus Wittelsbach und seine Bedeutung in der deutschen Geschichte, by J. v. Döllinger, (2) Ueber den geologischen Bau der libyschen Wüste, by Dr. K. A. Zittel, (3) Die Pflege der Geschichte durch die Wittelsbacher, by Dr. L. Rockinger.

3. From the Palæographical Society,-Facsimiles of Ancient MSS., Oriental Series, Part V, by W. Wright.

4. From the Surveyor General of India,—(1) Account of the Operations of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, Vol. VI, (2) Synopsis of the Results of the Operations of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, Vol. VII.

5. From the authors,-(1) Report on the Electric Light at the East Indian Railway Company's Station, Howrah (Calcutta), by L. Schwendler, (2) Sketch of the Hindustani Language, by C. J. Lyall.

6. From the Home, Revenue and Agricultural Department,--the Sacred Books of the East, Vols. VI and IX, edited by F. Max Müller.

7. From Mr. Holgnette,-one silver and one copper coin.

8. From Dr. A. F. R. Hoernle,-13 Nos. of the Deutsche Litteratur Zeitung.

The following Gentlemen, duly proposed and seconded at the last meeting, were balloted for and elected Ordinary Members:

Sir Ashley Eden, K. C. S. I. Lieut.-Governor of Bengal (re-election.)

H. J. Reynolds, Esq., C. S.

L. King, Esq.

F. C. Channing, Esq.

E. R. Shopland, Esq.

Captain L. A. C. Cook.

Babu Hem Chunder Gossain.

W. C. Benett, Esq., C. S.

Babu Troylokyanath Mitra, B. L.

Babu Bhyrub Chunder Chatterji.

J. Bridges Lee, Esq., M. A., F. G. S., F. Z. S., F. C. S.
Babu Peary Mohun Guha, B. L.

Babu Sreenath Chunder.

The COUNCIL reported that Mr. V. Ball had been appointed Member of Council under Rules 4 and 46 (as amended during the past year), and that he would officiate as Natural History Secretary during Mr. Wood-Mason's absence from Calcutta.

The SECRETARY reported that the following coins had been acquired under the Treasure Trove Act.

1. Four gold and eight silver coins found at Nya Doomka, Santhal Pergunnahs.

2. Six silver coins from Basti.

The SECRETARY read a letter from Lieut.-Col. J. W. H. Johnstone, dated, February 15th, 1881, regarding the supposed identity of the Awans resident in the Salt Range with the Jods of Baber.

"General Cunningham in his Archæological Report on the NorthWest Panjab wishes to identify the Awans resident in the Salt Range as the Jods of Baber. In fact a tribe of Jods is still located in this part of the country where Baber found them. This tribe is known to be a branch of the Janjúás, and there is no difficulty on the subject of the Jods, except that we now find the possessions of the Jods and Janjúás with the Awans. I have known this for some years, and am sorry I did not before communicate it to the Society. The explanation I would give of the Awans' possession of the country is this. They were resident on both the branches of the Indus below the Salt Range. Baber found the present country of the Marwats in the Bannú district occupied by Iśákhíl Níázís. Subsequently