reverse Aboo,' apparently for the first letter apparently of opinion. 10th June 1858.

Aboo Bekr the faithful,' and 'ain,' Omer,' is legible, which confirms my

With reference to Government letter No. 1461, dated 19th ultimo, in reply to the Society's, communicating Mr. Frere's report on the gold coins discovered in the Inam Field of the Patell of Sichoree, and forwarding seven of the same for the President of the Society to select two therefrom, one for the Museum of the Society and one for himself, Mr. Frere selected that mentioned in the list of presents to the Museum, for the Society, and one of Mahmood Shah for himself; and proposed that, on returning the other five coins, the Secretary should present the Society's best thanks and his own to Government for these handsome and most acceptable presents.

With reference to Government letter No. 1349, dated 4th June, and the accompanying "Resolution" of Government (in reply to the Society's letter transmitting Mr. Frere's report on 1395 coins discovered in the village of Sanund in the Ahmedabad Collectorate), stating that the Sub-Treasurer had been directed to return these coins to the Society for the President to select ten for the Society's Museum and ten for himself, Mr. Frere observed that he had selected five of "Kumara Gupta," and five of the "undescribed species," for the Museum, and a like number for himself; and proposed, on returning the remainder, that the Secretary be requested to present the Society's best thanks and his own to Government for these valuable presents.

Report on forty gold coins received from D. Davidson, Esq., Collector of Poona. By W. E. Frere, Esq., President.

"I have received from the collector of Poona the forty gold coins Government did me the honour of directing him to send me.

"They are all Hoons or Warahas like those sent before, and on which I reported on the 11th March last, but they are not all the same. "On 36 of them there are two seated figures, apparently Vishnu and Luxamee.

"On the reverse of seven of these the legend is Shri Prutap Daew Raja.

"On nine Shri Prutap Dew Raee, and on five Shri Prutap Dew Raja. "These are probably all coins of the same king, most likely Devappa.

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who reigned in Mysore about the beginning of the seventeenth century; a predecessor of Kanterava Nursa, of whose coinage I have a specimen in my collection.

"On eleven of them the legend on the reverse is Shri Prutap Hurri Hur,' and I do not know to what race of kings to attribute these coins. "On four others the legend is illegible. Of the remaining four coins,

"On three there is a single figure like Vishnu, and they very much resemble that depicted in Moor's Hindu Pantheon, Plate 104, fig. 19; the legend on these, however, is perfectly legible, viz. Shri Prutap Kista or Krista Raja, and they are probably Hoons of Kristna Deva who reigned in Beejanuggur from 1508 to 1530 A.D.; though the workmanship of these coins is superior to that depicted by Dr. Wilson in the 17th volume of the Asiatic Researches,' p. 594.

"The last coin is much defaced, but has on the obverse a double headed figure of Garura, holding an elephant in each beak and each claw. The legend on the reverse is 'Shri Prutap V. and the rest illegible; but the coin is exactly similar to one depicted in the Asiatic Researches' quoted above, Plate IV., fig. 92, p. 595, which is attributed in Colonel Mackenzie's Catalogue, to Siva Raj of Coimbatore.

"I do not think any of these coins are rare, although I have none of them in my collection, and should be glad to buy specimens from these to add to it, if Government did not desire to keep them.

"As there are no dates on the coins, and as we know, from Dr. Wilson's paper which I have quoted above, that coins of this description were not only struck by the kings of Beejanuggur, but by those of Coimbatore, Mysore, and others, as well as by the Raja of Chandragiri after the overthrow of the Beejanuggur kingdom, and the subject has not as yet attracted the attention of numismatists, it would be very desirable that those possessing any of these coins should publish them, as, from comparison of workmanship and names, it is very possible that an approximation' might be made to the exact time and dynasty to which they should be attributed."—8th July 1858.

Committee Meeting.-Mr. Taylor's letter, requesting that he might be furnished with some definite instructions for selecting books for the Society having been read, it was revolved:

That he should be requested to select them in the following order :1st. New works relating to the East, such as Travels, Languages, Literature, Antiquities, &c.

Memoirs.

Works of General Literature, Science, History, Travels, and

3rd. The best Novels and Poems.-10th July 1858.

Government memorandum: No. 2037, dated 8th ultimo, in reply to the Society's letter No. 96, 31st July last, transmitting Mr. Frere's Report on forty gold coins received from the Collector of Poona, sends the thanks of the Right Honorable the Governor in Council to Mr. Frere, invites him to select three or four of them for himself, and four or five for the Society, and requests that the rest might be returned.

Mr. Frere kindly undertook, at the wish of the members present, to make the selection offered by Government.

With reference to Mr. Hall's letter, of the 8th June last, asking for a transcript of the copy of the Sanscrit Inscriptions in the Temple of Somnath possessed by the Society, the Secretary stated that the transcript of this inscription, now on the table, had been made by Vishnu Shastree for Mr. Hall, and would be forwarded to him directly. -9th September 1858.

The President, who kindly undertook to arrange the Society's coins some months since, placed them on the table, and stated as follows::

"I have now much pleasure in laying before the Society their cabinet of coins arranged in order, together with a descriptive Catalogue of its contents. The cabinet contains 49 gold coins, 431 silver coins, 525 copper coins, and 17 lead coins; and has been arranged in the following order :-Roman Emperors, Egyptian Kings and Queens, Greek Princes of Bactria, Indo-Parthian Princes, Indo-Scythian Princes, Patan or Afghan Sultans of Hindostau; Moghul Emperors of Hindostan, Kings of Gujerat, Kings of Malwa, Kings of Kulburga; Kutch and Kattyawar Coins, Saurashtra Coins, Gupta Coins, Rajput or Cholan Coins, Budhist Coins, Canouj Coins, and Coins of the South of India.

"Had the size of the cabinet allowed of it, I would have assigned a drawer to one or two of the above divisions, and have written the name of the coins or dynasty on the front of the drawer, but that, from being obliged to crowd sometimes parts of three divisions into one drawer, I have been unable to do.

"I hope my labours will induce some better numismatist to examine the coins which I have been unable to class and assign; and then,

but not till then, I shall feel that I have done a good work. At present my only satisfaction is that I have dispelled some darkness, and discovered that there are many duplicates in the collection which it would be desirable to sell or to give to other collections; and I would earnestly suggest that some of them should be offered to Government for the Central Museum, as some acknowledgment of the liberality with which Government have of late presented us with coins. The subject, however, is one that probably falls properly within the province of the Museum Committee, to whom it should be referred.

"I cannot conclude without recording the great assistance I have received in arranging the coins of the Roman Emperors from my young friend the late Mr. Thelwall, of the Civil Service, whose early death, all those who knew his classical acquirements, and the industry with which he applied himself to the study of the oriental languages, must greatly deplore."

The Rev. Dr. Wilson, Honorary President, seconded by the Secretary, proposed the Society's thanks to Mr. Frere for the great trouble he had taken, and the very satisfactory way in which he had kindly arranged the Society's coins; also that the subject mentioned in the third paragraph of his Report should be referred to the Museum Committee, which was unanimously carried.

At the request of the meeting, Mr. Frere kindly undertook to examine the parcels of 13 and 50 silver coins respectively, laid on the table from Government for this purpose, with letters from W. Hart, Esq., and Captain Burke, Nos. 2247 and 171.-14th Oct. 1858.

With reference to the Government letter No. 2247, dated 19th September 1858, enclosing copy of one, No. 1674, dated 30th July 1858, from D. Davidson, Esq., Collector of Poona, with 13 silver coins, being part of 682 rupees of the old currency, found in a field situated in the village of Khanowty, Talooka Bhimthurry, and referred to the Society for examination and report, the President (W. E. Frere, Esq.), who kindly undertook to examine them at the last meeting, stated as follows:

"These are thirteen different coinages of the old currency, as reported by Mr. Davidson, and all belong to such rupees as those which, when received by the Government officers, are not re-issued, but sent to be melted.

"On the order withdrawing these coins from circulation, I began to make a collection of them, and have now a cabinet of upwards of

one hundred different rupees current during my service in different parts of India, mostly on this side.

Among the rupees sent us, five, viz. the Fursee, the Sun Ankosee, Narayn Putee, Jumkhundee, and Bhatowdee are not in my collection; the others are in my collection, though not always by the same name. Thus the "Shree Sicca" is known as the Ajmeer Rupee.

"Government have not, I believe, any collection of these now uncurrent coins. It is perhaps late for them to commence one, but at any rate this would furnish a commencement if they had any intention of preserving what, in a few years, it would be impossible to obtain.

"Should Government, however, have no intention of keeping these coins, I should feel grateful to them if they would allow me to purchase the five above mentioned to add to my collection; but as there are no duplicates of two of them, I cannot prefer my request if Government should determine to commence a collection."

As regards the Mint Master's (Captain Burke's) letter No. 171, dated 8th October 1858, forwarding 50 silver coins recently dug up in the Province of Broach, requesting that the Society would remit their approximate value to the Acting Collector of Broach, Mr. Frere, who also kindly undertook to examine them, states as follows:

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"These fifty silver coins are Rupees of some of the Patan, Affghan, or Ghori Sultans of Delhi, viz :-8 of Ghiasoodeen Balban 13 of Alaoodeen Mahomed Shah; 7 of Kootboodeen Mobarik Shah; 1 of Nasuroodeen Khoosroo; 5 of Ghiasoodeen Tughlik; and 16 of Mahomed Tughlik.=50.

"I have not had time to compare them with those in our cabinet, but there are some that I know are new to us, and I would advise the Society to purchase them by paying their approximate value to the Collector of Broach, after which we can easily dispose of those of which we have duplicates."

The best thanks of the Society having been accorded to Mr. Frere for the above reports, -the Secretary was requested to forward a copy of the former to Government, and to carry into effect Mr. Frere's suggestion respecting the latter.-11th November 1858.

The Rev. S. Hislop exhibited a large collection of Fossils from Nagpoor and its vicinity. Some were from the red shale of Korhadi, consisting of the foot-marks of a small reptile, and the tracks of an insect and various species of Annelids. These impressions had been made on successive rippled surfaces on the margin, most probably of a