सङ्ख्याः पन्यानां नामानि ११०४ पशुको मैत्रावरुणप्रयोगः ग्रन्थकारनामानि अक्षरभेदाः पत्रसङ्ख्याः ११०५ प्रयोगदर्पणः (शेघे खण्डितः) नारायणदीक्षितः ना० ११०६ ज्योतिष्टामाग्निष्टोमादिपद्धतिः रामकृष्णः . ना० PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, FOR FEBRUARY, 1868. The monthly general meeting of the Asiatic Society was held on Wednesday the 5th February, 1868 at 9 P. M. The Hon'ble J. B. Phear, Vice-President, in the chair. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. The following presentations were announced From Dr. J. Fayrer; copy of a lecture by M. Garcin de Tassy; Cours D'Hindoustani (Urdu et Hindi) à l'école impérial et Spécial des Langues Orientales Vivantes. From Col. J. T. Walker, Superintendent of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India; five copies of Nautical Almanac Circular, No. 11, of the Path of the total phase of the Solar eclipse, August 17-18, 1868, between Aden and Torres Straits. From H. A. Mangles, Esq., through A. Grote, Esq.; a fragment of a stone hatchet, (Neolithic type,) found six miles north of Mercara in Coorg, on the crest of a hill. Mr. Blanford remarked that this was the first time (to his knowledge) that any specimen of the polished or Neolithic type of stone hatchet had been met with in Southern India. Numerous Celts of the same type had been found in Bundelkund by Mr. Lemesurier and Mr. Theobald, and a fine series of these specimens had been presented by the former gentleman to the Society's Museum and figured in the Society's Journal, Vol. XXXI. p. 327. Stone celts of the chipped or Palæolithic type, similar to those of the Amiens gravels, had been found by Messrs. Foote and King in the Carnatic, and in September last a number of specimens from other parts of India were exhibited at the meeting of the Society. But hatchets of the type now before the meeting had been found hitherto only in Bundelkund. It was probably owing to want of proper search, that they had not previously been met with elsewhere; for there could be no question that the hills and plains of Southern India had been occupied by man in a very early stage of development, and, in addition to the chipped hatchets, kist-vaens, cromlechs, and stone rings, some of an early iron age, but some probably of earlier date, were common both in the hill regions and the plains of India. It was noteworthy that there is no trace of a bronze age in India; the iron age appears to have immediately succeeded that of stone; but the various antiquities have as yet hardly been correllated sufficiently, to enable us to distinguish one of the iron period from one of the stone age. From H. Blochmann, Esq.; a copy of a treatise on the Rubái, entitled Risalah i Taranah. From A. Grote, Esq.; copies of Proceedings and publications of the Scientific Society of Aligurh. The Council reported that they have nominated the following gentlemen to serve in the several Committees in the ensuing year. Finance. |