ernment should be reminded that the correspondence on this subject has already been before them.

September 30th, Ordinary Meeting.

Messrs. E. M. Sage, and R. O. Lees were elected Ordinary Members of the Society.

A letter was read from Dr. R. Mitra forwarding 10 copies of his report on the Conservation of Sanskrit MSS. for the past year.

A request from the Proprietor of the " Asian" that the Society should subscribe for his paper was declined.

Dr. Garbe's edition of the text of the Apastamba Srauta Sútra was ordered to be substituted, in the list of publications undertaken by the Society, for Dr. Schroeder's Maitráyaní Samhitá.

October 28th, Ordinary Meeting.

A letter from Dr. T. E. Charles, offering translations of the Nidána and Suṣruta which he has had prepared at his own expense, to the Society if they will undertake to publish them, was ordered to be referred to the Philological Committee.

An application from the Natural History Society of Brunswick, for an exchange of publications, was declined.

The Secretary submitted the report of the Sub-Committee appointed to investigate the condition of the Oriental Library. It was ordered to be circulated to the Members of the Council.

November 25th, Ordinary Meeting.

An exchange of publications with the Royal Dublin Society was sanctioned.

On the recommendation of Mr. H. Rivett-Carnac it was ordered that abstracts of the proceedings at the meetings of the Society should be published in the daily papers.

Babu Thakur Dass Banerji was appointed on trial, on Rs. 30 per mensem, to do the work of indexing the old records of the Society.

It was agreed that all the Journals and Proceedings previously distributed though Messrs. Trübner & Co. should be sent direct by post for the future.

A pension of Rs. 15 per mensem was allowed to Babu Buddhinath Bysack, the Society's old Cashier.

December 20th, Ordinary Meeting.

A letter was read from Mr. H. G. Keene announcing the near completion of Beal's Oriental Biographical Dictionary.

A memorandum by Dr. Mitra was read stating that, in their present condition, the translations of the Susruta and Nidána offered by Dr. Charles are unfit for publication, and suggesting that they should be made. over to Dr. Uday Chand Dutt for the purpose of editing and revision. It was ordered that the result of Dr. Mitra's investigations should be communicated to Drs. Harvey and Smith, who have been requested by Dr. Charles to act for him in this matter.

The thanks of the Society were ordered to be conveyed to the Oriental Library Committee and to its Secretary for the valuable report submitted by them.

It was ordered that Babu Thakur Dass Banerji should continue indexing the Society's old records.

The Catalogue of the books in the Library, as completed by Mr. Dreyer, was submitted.

The PRESIDENT then delivered the following address:

"I hope the meeting will agree with me in thinking the report a satisfactory one, showing that the affairs of the Society have made good progress during the past year. There has been a large addition to the list of members; the catalogue of the Library is ready to go to press; and the reorganisation of our accounts is an accomplished fact. Last year I mentioned the trouble Mr. Westland had taken to re-cast our system of book-keeping. The greater labour of carrying out the reformation devolv ed upon our present Treasurer, who further modified the proposed system and brought it into successful operation, as may be judged by the financial statement attached to the report. The Society is under much obligation to Mr. Douglas for the time and skill he has devoted to its service. Our Honorary Secretaries have been no less diligent in the performance of their editorial and administrative functions, and I would ask you to convey to those gentlemen the gratitude of the Society, by a vote of thanks." A vote of thanks to the Officers of the Society was unanimously carried.

At the suggestion of the President

Mr. J. Westland and Col. Sconce were appointed to audit the annual

accounts.

The Meeting was then resolved into the Ordinary Monthly General Meeting.

H. B. MEDLICOTT, Esq., F. R. S., President, in the Chair.
The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed.
The following presentations were announced-

1. From the Home, Revenue and Agricultural Department,—(1) a Catalogue of Sanskrit MSS. in the Library of H. H. the Maharaja of Bika

neer, by Dr. R. L. Mitra ; (2) Notes on Afghanistan and part of Biluchistan, by Major H. G. Raverty.

2. From M. de Goeje,-(1) Kitabo 'l Ahdád, by M. Houtsma, (2) Al Moschtabih, by Dr. P. de Jong.

3. From the author,-Grammar of the Classical Arabic Language, Parts II and III, by M. S. Howell.

4. From the Meteorological Reporter to the Government of India,— Report on the administration of the Meteorological Department of the Government of India, 1879-80, by H. F. Blanford.

5. From the Assistant Secretary, P. W. D., British Burmah,-Report on the Irrawady river, by R. Gordon.

6. From Dr. G. Leitner,-Proceedings of the Anjuman-i-Punjab during October, November and December 1880.

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

P. I. Carter, Esq.

Captain T. Morris Jenkins.

Major W. F. Prideaux.

R. C. Laughlin, Esq.

Dr. G. Bomford.

The following are candidates for ballot at the next meeting:

1. Sir Ashley Eden, K. C. S. I., Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal (reelection), proposed by the President, seconded by the Secretary.

2. H. J. Reynolds, Esq., C. S., proposed by the President, seconded by the Secretary.

3. L. King, Esq., Assistant Commissioner of Rohtuk, proposed by Col. C. Minchin, seconded by M. Macauliffe, Esq.

4. F. C. Channing, Esq., C. S., Lahore, proposed by D. Ibbetson, Esq., seconded by A. Pedler, Esq.

5. E. R. Shopland, Esq., Post Master, Akyab, proposed by L. Schwendler, Esq., seconded by A. Pedler, Esq.

6. Captain L. A. C. Cook, 5th Bengal Cavalry, Jamrud, proposed by J. G. Delmerick, Esq., seconded by A. Pedler, Esq.

7. Babu Hem Chunder Gossain, Calcutta, proposed by A. Pedler, Esq., seconded by the Hon'ble P. M. Mukerjea.

8. W. C. Benett, Esq., C. S., Rai Bareilly, proposed by H. RivettCarnac, Esq., seconded by Dr. G. Thibaut.

9. Babu Troylokyanath Mitra, B. L., 1st Subordinate Judge, Jessore, proposed by Babu Adharlal Sen, seconded by A. Pedler, Esq.

10. Babu Bhyrub Chunder Chatterjea, Special Sub-Registrar, Jessore, proposed by Babu Adharlal Sen, seconded by A. Pedler, Esq.

11. J. Bridges Lee, Esq., M. A., F. G. S., F. C. S., F. Z. S., proposed by A. Pedler, Esq., seconded by C. H. Tawney, Esq.

12. Babu Peary Mohun Guha, B. L., Pleader, Jessore, proposed by Babu Adharlal Sen, seconded by Dr. R. L. Mitra.

13. Babu Sreenath Chunder, proposed by W. Swinhoe, Esq., seconded by Babu P. C. Ghosha.

The SECRETARY reported that Mr. W. Lambe had intimated his desiro to withdraw from the Society.

Mr. J. C. DOUGLAS then exhibited the working of the Gower Bell Telephone, and explained the principles on which it is constructed.

Dr. HOERNLE exhibited and described 10 coins, the property of Mr. R. Nicholson of the Opium Department, sent for the inspection of the Society by Mr. H. Rivett-Carnac, B. C. S. These coins consist of (1) three silver Bactrian hemidrachmas, one of Azilises and two of Zoilos; very similar to those described in Prinsep's Indian Antiquities, Vol. II, pp. 190, 211. One of the two Zoilos is of the degraded type, noticed in the Journal A. S. B., Vol. XXIII, p. 692 (Plate XXXV, No. 11) and in the Numismatic Chronicle, Vol. X, p 72. (2) One gold Kumára Gupta; as in Prinsep's Ind. Ant., Vol. I, p. 386 (Class H, a); the legends are: Obv., above the bow sra (srí?) má; below the arm ku; to the right, along the rim, sri ...... (rest illegible). Rev., along right-hand rim, kumára guptádhirája; the letter dhi is doubtful. (3) Three silver Kumára Gupta coins of the Sáh series and the peacock type; similar to those described by E. Thomas in the Archeological Survey of Western India, p. 65 (Plate VII, Nos. 22-25); two, however, show traces of date-figures in front of the profile, doubtfully read as 1...5. (4) A gold coin (unknown to the exhibitor) showing, on the obverse, a bull sitting in front of a Mahádeva (as linga-yoni), below them the recumbent figure of a man, dressed in short dhoti; legend in Kutila characters sri dhairyyarája. Reverse: cow with sucking calf; below, a cluster of seven dots; in front, a water-vessel (sarái?) and a fish; above, a wheel and some other indistinguishable

symbols as shown in the woodcut. (6) A gold mohur of the Jaunpur Sultán Ibrahim Shah Sharqí; dated 823 A. H., apparently similar to the one, noticed by E. Thomas in Chronicles of the Pathán Kings of Delhi,

This coin is peculiar on account of the elongated downstrokes of the letters on the reverse, resembling a row of organ pipes. The legend on the obverse is an exact reproduction of that on some of the coins of the Delhi Emperor Feroz Sháh, during whose reign the Jaunpur Sultanat took its rise. (7) A copper coin, the legends of which are too much worn to be distinguished. The head on the obverse has the appearance of being Roman; the figure on the reverse may be Ceres (?), and there appears to be a monogram B.

Dr. Hoernle exhibited and described 12 coins of the later Delhi Emperors. They were selected from a large hoard of 200 coins, found at Nya Doomka in the Santhal Pergunnahs. Among them were four gold mohurs, one of Muhammad Farrukh Sír, dated 1126 A. H., mint Akbarábád, regnal year 2; one of Muhammad Sháh, date 1148 A. H., mint Jahánábád (?) regnal year 18; one of ditto, date 1161 A. H., regnal year 30 (the last of his reign; the latest of his coins, noticed by Marsden in his Oriental Coins, p. 669, is four years earlier, of 1157 A. H.); one of Sháh 'Alam, date 1202 A. H., struck by the English Government in Calcutta. The others are silver Rupees of Sháh 'Alam, of various dates, four struck by the English in Calcutta, four other struck by the Nawáb of Oudh. The latter have the symbol (fish) and name of Benares and are dated 1209, 1226, 1228, 1229 A. H.