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Oy ee ah gh he” ae ae ee ee ew ee a ee me a ae we ee Ce th hd Bt ea hath at Sl ee eh et a ee ew et ¢ ee ee e * Ch ta a ee ee pe th ed * Pp AE oi ate, : Lap 9 ~ ¥a25! atatavarat ay : he et me ee ww, Se a. ee So ee ee : , “> 4 ‘ates att el eat etteate So ee 0 , ge. % CO ‘ Hes oem arate . 9 Mk ea) Pa i Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from California Academy of Sciences Library http://www.archive.org/details/proceedingsofasi1888asia PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. © EDITED BY JHE JIONORARY p ECRETARIES, =< Y Gre JANUARY TO DECEMBER, LS3s. CALCUTTA: 0) PRINTED BY G. H. ROUSE, BAPTIST MISSION PRESS, : AND PUBLISHED BY THE ASIATIC SOCIETY, 57 PARK STREET. 1889, CONTENTS. Page Proceedings for January, 1888 . sdeta erases Shien earners dashes 1-12 Ditto for February, ,, Gaehidine Annual Berne) Paes 13-92 Ditto for March Pat aetuee amy ccna Maasuon ee aaaM caseiinetees! ome Ditto for April A peie Maka Gnas gel nueeus eo ienteeet es ane Seweene a OOS Ditto for May Pe iste ote dais taints wide tea OR vas soe .» 139-150 Ditto for June i, sa LOeleZ Ditto for July Wy MBAS Rect ietisephinae en wae cioate wea aanteemien On ate Ditto for August St staewtate nt ee sareee ten terete were Lb omtou Ditto for November ,, »» 191-222 Ditto for December ,, Poot Coan ashcastsab voles ite . 223-234 List of Members of the Gane Bich on a Sst Dene 1887 (Appendix to Proceedings for February,) ......... rae 1-XV1 Abstract Statements of Receipts and Disbursements of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for the year 1886 (Appendix to pe E roceedines Lor WeODrUarY,, ) ...1:s0cv.ssiccr stu sew saecin sie aevee XVM-REIX LIST OF PLATES. I. Miscellaneous Coins....ccssesecsreeeees seghiecel vanes CDaee) II. Map showing the Planes phere the Bat fel guns shen been heard.. Berns dep cates Satteeaus was Cty LOL) Ill. Terra Sones Boake fotue a sPaaaeles ; i) ia x ey eT inal i Pops aoe oT! , ‘ et «SOs ae yr +P et Se iD Re ’ cmos ios, E ete a ia Sui "i Ls 4h al = Lenn ren reas eee es a ee COR AEE Ge See EF te \ ; af * + : P 7 ; ; ? 4 i Feve 2 &, = BY a Seal y va ahs hee tans sigurrn (eo Pees Swsshl wae) Oe ak OF FE ets “ 4 Says ti Oa sw CFE GR PIA ETC eer aH vest ‘ ; ; } : » " y 2 Ove eee ves PP ere CEP OOe Eee POH AER Pee eee eT CHE Th cee } cx ‘i Ky . A, e . , 1 : Pe a a y 4 ; 4 : ; x f Bees ks ke Corre «ete, pers hs 4 ve, ae ‘ J : Pera > : es, ’ c Sy a a ys . ia d < ee \ re 7 i . 7 4 ck r PY Fe beet)’) hy , Bre ree CP Rs (~ be é “"S “ ' < PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, For pAN UARY, 1888, SSS EEE The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was held on Wednesday the 4th January 1888, at 9 P. m. EK. T. Atkinson, Esq., C. 8., PResmpent, in the Chair. The following Members were present : H. Beveridge, Esq., Babu Nobin Chand Bural, E. C. Cotes, Hsq., W. R. Criper, Esq., Maulavi Abdul Hai, Dr. Hoernle, R. D. Mehta, Esq., Babu Asutosh Mukhopadhyay, T. R. Munro, Hsq., L. de Nicéville, Esq., Moung Hla Oung, Hsq., H. M. Percival, Hsq., T. A. Pope, Esq., Hon. Dr. Mahendralal Sarkar, Maulavi Golam Sarwar, Pandit Hara- prasad Sastri, D. Waldie, Hsq., Lieut.-Col. J. Waterhouse, J. Wood- Mason, Esq. The Minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. Forty-four presentations were announced, as detailed in the append- ed Library List. The following gentlemen are candidates for election at the next meeting :— Dr. A. Alcock, I. M. 8.,4th Panjab Infantry, Dera Ghazi Khan, proposed by Col. W. B. Thomson, seconded by R. A. Sterndale, Esq. W. L. Svelater, Esq., B. A.,Oxon., Deputy Superintendent Indian Museum, proposed by J. Wood-Mason, Hsq., seconded by Lieut.-Col. J. Waterhouse. H. H. Anderson, Esq , Rector, St. James’ High School, proposed by J. Wood-Mason, Hsq., seconded by Dr. Hoernle. Major C. H. KE. Anderson, Deputy Commissioner, Bhamo, Burmah, proposed by EH. T, Atkinson, Esq., seconded by L. de Nicéville, Esq. 2 Lt.-Col. J. Waterhouse—Lehibits specimens of Heliogravure. [Jan. W. H. Lee, Esq, B. C. S., proposed by J. Wood-Mason, Hsq., se- conded by E. T. Atkinson, Esq. The Hon. Ajodhyanath Pandit, Allahabad, proposed by Nawab Abdul Latif, Bahadur, seconded by H. T. Atkinson, Esq. The following gentlemen have intimated their wish to withdraw from the Society : F. W. Peterson, Esq. W. Trego Webb, Esq. F. J. E. Spring, Esq. The Srecrerary reported the death of the following Member : F. Fedden, Esq. The Presipent reported that Sirdar Gurdyal Sing and Rev. A. EB. Medlicott were largely in arrears of subscription, and though registered letters had been sent to them in accordance with Rule 37 no notice had been taken of them. Their names would therefore be suspended for a month as defaulters in the Society’s meeting-room, and unless the sums due were paid in the meantime they will be declared removed from the Society at its next meeting. In accordance with Rule 38 this fact will be notified in the Proceedings. Cot. WatrrHouse exhibited some views of Jaunpur and other speci- mens of heliogravure by the photo-etching process and said :— ‘‘ At the meeting of the Society in March 1887, I exhibited some specimens of heliogravure, chiefly by the photo-electrotype method. These I have now the pleasure of showing you are by the photo-etching process, and are reproductions from the original negatives of some views of Jaunpur intended for the illustration of Dr. Burgess’ Archeological Survey Report. My assistant, Mr. Turner, has carried out a good many improvements in the process lately, and it is now being worked with considerable success. We find that many of these reproductions are really much better than ordinary silver prints from the same negatives, and this was particularly the case with some reductions we lately made from Dr. Giles’ negatives taken in Gilgit. The etching process is ex- ceedingly rapid, the plates require very little touching up, and the prints being pulled in the copper-plate press are-as permanent as or- dinary engravings. . I gave a description of the process on the occasionfreferred to and need not repeat it, but I may remark that we have now adopted the plan of etching with baths of perchloride of iron of different strengths, usu- ally 45° 40° 36° and 27° B. commencing with the strongest.” RocenpiInas As, Soc, BENGAL 1888, Prare. I. 8h w oi CSF Th aC Use, ¢ Roe,” KY i) hia ! Ho ‘2 2a Dig = oo Pay)! LITHOGRAPHED BY A. L. PAIN, CALCUTTA, APRIL, 1888, CHAS. J. RODGEES, DEL. MISCELLANEOUS COINS. 1888. | C. J. Rodgers—On Miscellaneous Coins. 3 The following papers were read— | 1. Notes on Indian Rhynchota. Heteroptera, No. 4.—By EH. T. Arxinson, Esq., C. S., Presipent. 2. Relique Indice: being contributions to the Prehistoric Archco- logy of India and adjoining Provinces, founded chiefly on objects in the collection of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. No.1, on some objects from a Neolithic settlement recently discovered by Mr. W. H. P. Driver at Rancht in the Chota-Ndgpur district.—By J. Woop-Mason, Hsq., Superintendent Indian Museum and Professor of Comparative Anatomy and Zoology in the Medical College of Calcutta. These papers will be published in full in the Journal, Pt, II. 3. On Miscellaneous Coins.—By C. J. Ropaurs, Esq., Archeological Department. (With a plate.) In years gone by whenever I came across a rare coin, obtained for my own cabinet or for the cabinets of my friends, I made a point of drawing it. After several years I find myself in possession of a small collection of drawings. As most of these coins thus drawn are of the greatest rarity, I have put the drawings of them on the accompanying plate (Plate 1). I will give a short description of each with a tran- scription of the, legends as far as}they are legible. No. 1. Rupee of Shah Shuja’, son of Shah Jahan. Obverse :—- In square: (gs* cl gle cae slash Margins illegible : ? Reverse:— Kalimah and date {¢4A in square. Margins, names of the four companions of Muhammad. This rupee I obtained some years agoin Dehli. It is now in the cabinet of Sir A. Cunningham, No. 2. Rupee of Murad Bakhsh, son of Shah Jahan. Obverse:— in square: (p>! oo y=” csi wldgly Margins :— yo cu || prbeltgt || oat dive |] chs Gye Reverse :— Kalimah in square. Margins:— Names and titles of the four companions and date |*4A This rupee was obtained by me for Government this year. It gives the kuniyat of Murad Bakhsh, Murawwaju-d-Din, not Taju-d-Din as given by Mr. Delmerick in this Journal for 1875, p. 127. This reading of mine is supported by the Strat rupee given in Marsden, Pl. XLII, No. DCCCLXXXII. These rupees are very rare indeed now. 4 C. J. Rodgers—On Miscellaneous Coins. [Jan. No. 3.—A rupee of Kam Bakhsh, son of Aurangzib. Obverse :— Blo 5 Od od 9d 95 WTO ya Swe ttre gly cys r= cs slats Reverse :— yyg Let! _2EIpto ys Ur silo Shewo Cul p dw The couplet on the obverse I have made up by comparing this coin with Nos. 4and 11. The mintis Bijapur, Daru-l-Zafar (the gate of Victory), a title occurring on the rupees of Aurangzib, struck in this mint. No. 4.—A second rupee of Kam Bakhsh. Obverse :— Same as on No. 3, but without date. Reverse :— Mint not legible. Year oa! No. 5.—A rupee of A’zam Shah, son of Aurangzib. Obverse :— Bla 4 dy Akane Oke yo 5} i ee abst SI 40 slirsly Reverse :— dal dw glldsal Gye ceple Drove Cpyle No. 6.—A mohur of A’zam Shah, struck at Asir (Garh). Obverse :—Same as No. 5, but date vI J} Reverse :— 1 &iw prot Gye These two coins of A’zim Shah are in the cabinet of General Sir A. Cunningham. I found the rupee in Amritsar, years ago. No. 7.—A rupee of Rafi’u-d-Darjat, struck at Akbar4bdd (Agra). Obverse :— IE Ebel y de tIrt wleotlas, 5,5) adials Reverse :— ob ast idles pPrdmwe Gyd Crp Sher Crgle oa aie No. 8.—A rupee of Shah Jahan III., also struck at AkbarabAd. Obverse :— Vie cailé slash whe xls Syla0 Sine Reverse:— Same ae on No. 7. No. 9.—A copper pice of Aurangzib, struck at Machchlipatan (Masulipatam). Obverse :— CETV Sylae cpyda tien Reverse :— 9 whe ys? Gd No. 10.—A second pice of Aurangzib, struck at Haidarabad. Obverse :— Slovo Urge Ai Reverse :— Htev sbhose Gyc 1888.] © Inbrary. 5 No. 11.—A mohur of Kém Bakhsh, struck at Haidardbad, here called Daru-l-Jihad, ‘ the gate of war for religion.’ Obverse :— Same as on No. 3. Reverse :— r olhoam she &e, &e. This mohur was in the cabinet of the late Hon. J. Gibbs, C. S. L, C. I. E., who gave me an electrotype copy of it before he went home. No. 12.—A small, but fine mohur of Aurangzib, struck at Malika- nagar, a place I know nothing about. The inscription on the obverse differs from that usually on the mohurs of this Sultan. Obverse :— colt stools sly Ki 1 de? Goll =? Reverse :—rr Lle (1°) a+ 8 afle : The inscription on the obverse is found on rupees of the lst year of Aurangzib. It is not often that the year of accession (jaltis) and of the Hijrah come on the same face of the coin. This mohur is in my cabinet. In reading these coins one must begin, as a rule, at the last line, and read upwards. This is nearly always the case where coin couplets are concerned. There are no less than three coin couplets on the coins here described. It will be seen from the rupees of Kam Bakhsh, how difficult it is to read the whole couplet from a single coin. The subject of conversation was Xavier’s Historia Christi Persica by H. Beveridge, Ksq. ph BRARY. The following additions have been made to the Library since the meeting held in December last. J RANSACTIONS, PROCEEDINGS, AND JOURNALS presented by the respective Societies and Editors. Amsterdam. Revue Coloniale Internationale,—Tome V, No. 9, Novem- bre, 1887. Berlin. Der Kéniglichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, —Sitzungsberichte, 19—39, 1887. Buenos Aires. Ia Academia Nacional de Ciencias en Cordoba,—Actas, Tome V, Entrega, 3. 6 Inbrary. [Jan. Calcutta. The Indian Engineer,—Vol. IV, Nos. 6 and 7. Indian Engineering,—Vol. II, Nos. 24—27. Edinburgh. The Scottish Geographical Society,—Magazine, Vol. III, No. 11, November, 1887. Frankfurt, a. O. Des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins des Reg.-Bez. Frankfurt,—-Monatliche Mittheilungen aus dem Gesammtgebiete der Naturwissenschaften, 4 Jahrgang, Nr, 7 und 8. Havre. Société de Geographie Commerciale du Havre,—Bulletin, Sep- tembre et Octobre, 1887. Leipzig. Der Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft,—Zeitschrift, Band XLI, Heft 3. London. The Academy,—Nos. 811—814. -—. Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland,—Vol. XVII, No. 2. ——.. The Atheneum,—Nos. 3134—3137. Nature,—Vol. XXXVII, Nos. 940—945 and Index to Vol. XXXVI. ——. Pali Text Society,—Journal, 1886. —. Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland,—Journal new series, Vol. XIX, Part 4, October, 1887. Royal Astronomical Society,—Monthly Notices, Vol. XLIII, No. 9, supplementary number. —. Royal Geographical Society,—Proceedings, Vol. IX, Nos. 10—12, October—December, 1887. Royal Society,—Proceedings, Vol. XLII, Nos. 257-~258. Royal Statistical Society,—Journal, Vol. L, Part 3, Septem- ber, 1887. Zoological Society of London,—Proceedings, Part 3, 1887. Mexico. La Sociedad Cientifica ‘‘ Antonio Alzate,’’ Memorias, Tomo I, No. 4. Munich. Akademie der Wissenschaften,—Abhandlungen, Historische Classe, Vol. XVII, No. 3. —_—., Mathematisch-Physikalische Classe, Vol. XV, Nos. 2-3; Vol. XVI, No. 1. ——. ———.. Philos-Philologischen Classe, Vol. XVII, Nos. 2—3. —_—_—-. Sitzungsberichte, Mathematisch-Physikalische Classe, Heft 2—4, 1885; Heft 1—3, 1886; Inhaltsverzeichniss Jahr- gang 1871—1885. —$ —, 9———.. Philos.-Philol. und Historische Classe, Heft gutafi 1885 ; 1—4, 1886; 1—2, 1887; Inhaltsverzeichniss Jahr- gang 1871—1885. 1888. ] Library. 7 Naples. Societa Africana D’Italia,—Bollettino, Anno VI. Fasc. 9— 10 Settembre et Ottobre 1887. Paris. Journal Asiatique,—Tome X, No. 1—Juillet-Aott, 1887. -. la Société de Géographie,—Compte Rendu des Séances, No. 13, 1887. ——-. la Société d’Ethnographie,—Bulletin, 2¢ Série, Nos. 6—7, Juin—Juillet, 1887. Roorkee. The Indian Forester,—Vol. XIII, No. 11, November, 1887. Schaffhausen. La Société Entomologique Suisse,—Bulletin, Tome VII, Heft Nr. 8. Juni, 1887. © Simla. United Service Institution of India,—Journal Nos. 1—34, and Vol. XV, No. 69, 1887. St. Petersburg. la Société Impériale Russe de Geographie,—Journal, Tome XXIII, No. 4. Sydney. Linnean Society of New South Wales,—Proceedings, Vol. IT, Part 2, 1887, Royal Society of New South Wales,—Journal and Proceed- ings, Vol. XX, 1886. Tékid. Der Kaiserlich-Japanischen Universitat,—Mittheilungen aus der Medicinischen Facultaét, Band I, No. 1, 1887. Toronto. The Canadian Institute,—Proceedings, Vol. V, (3rd series) No. 1, October, 1887. Vienna. Der K. K. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums,—Annalen, Band fens: 3. Yokohama. Der Deutschen Gesellschaft fiir Natur-und Volkerkunde Ostasiens in Tokio,—Mittheilungen, Heft 37. October 1887. Pooks AND PAMPHLETS presented by the Authors, Translators, &. Morvocn, J. Religious Reform, Part I (Popular Hinduism.) 8vo. Madras, 1887. Roy, Pror4e Cuanpra. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, translated into English Prose, Part XXXVI. 8vo. Calcutta, 1887. Tuurston, E. Preliminary Report on the Marine Fauna of Rameswa- ram and the neighbouring Islands. 8vo. Madras, 1887. MiscELLANEOUS PRESENTATIONS Gedichtnissrede auf Carl Theodor v. 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Arxinson, Esq., C.8., President, in the chair. The following members were present : H. Beveridge, Esq., Babu Nobin Chand Burdl, EH. C. Cotes, Esq., Babu Saratchandra Das, Kumar Vinayakrishna Deva, Bahadur, 8. R. Elson, Esq., EH. Gay, Esq., Dr. G. M. Giles, Dr. Hoernle, A. Hogg, Esq., Dr. George King, Dr. William King, Rev. Fr. EH. Lafont, Dr. K. MacLeod, R. D. Mehta, HEsq., Babu Asutosh Mukhopadhyay, T. R. Munro, Esq., L. de Nicéville, Esq., Moung Hla Oung, Esq., H. M. Percival, Esq., Dr. Prasanna Kumar Ray, Hon, Dr. Mahendralal Sarkar, Pandit Haraprasad Shastri, Dr. W. J. Simpson, D. Waldie, Esq., Lieut.- Col. J. Waterhouse, J. Wood-Mason, Esq. Visitors:—W. L. Sclater, Esq., Babu Pratapchandra Roy, Babu Siddheswar Mitra, Pandit Harimohan Vidyabhushan, Lama Ugyen Gyatsho, Lama Namgyal, (Lama of Tsun-thang dgon-pa,) Lama Ralang. According to the Bye-Laws of the Society the President ordered the voting papers to be distributed for the election of officers and members of Council for 1888, and appointed Messrs. Beveridge and Gay, Scrutineers. The Presiprenr then called apon the Secretary to read the Annual Report. ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1887. The Council of the Asiatic Society of Bengal have the honor to submit the following Report on the state and progress of the Society’s affairs during the past year. 14 Annual Report. [Frs. Member List. During the year under review, 19 gentlemen were elected Ordinary Members of the Society, 17 members withdrew, and 8 members died. Of the 19 elections one was a re-election. The total number of mem- bers, therefore, at the close of 1887 was 313, against 319 at the end of the preceding year. Of these 98 were Resident, 137 Non-Resident, 15 Foreign, 17 Life, 44 Absent from India, and 2 Special Non-Subscribing members, as will be seen from the following table, which also shows the fluctuations in the number of Ordinary Members for the past 6 years. Paying. Non-paying. ¥i | | i E ear. : : ° : 7) d . |e a e E Be =I 20 nis e 2 2 # ais sos rS 1 © o CS oO i:?) Dea 2 et a ae ees 5 oH 5 |So- eB) 5 Ae ees BS |e fa | + |*4a| 5 1882 a, BOtey dios 18 | 274 15 AZ 1 63 337 1883 wep | ADO>) O42 18 | 260 15 47 if 63 323 1884: co. bis LOZ ae eLbg, 12 | 271 15 39 1 55 326 1885 es oOo |e 16H 13 | 279 16 34 is 51 330 1886 Cp 93 | 142 18 | 253 16 48 2 66 319 1887 as 98. 46 137 15 | 250 17 44. 2 63 313 The 8 Ordinary Members, who died during the year, were Colonel G. C. De Prée, Mr. J. C. Douglas, Mr. T. G. H. Moncrieffe, the Hon’ble Sir Ashley Eden, Dr. Ram Das Sen, Lieut.-Colonel T. C. Plowden, Babu Girij4 Bhusan Mukherji, and Babu Rakhaldds Haldar. Among the Corresponding Members intimation of the deaths of the following gentlemen was received :—Mr. J. Nietner and Mr. R. H. Barnes, both of Ceylon, Dr. H. Smith of Beyrout, Mr. J. Taylor of Bussorah, and Dr. H. Frederick of Batavia. Their number now stands at 8. The lists of Honorary and Associate Members continue unaltered from last year, their numbers standing at 27 and 8 respectively. Mr. C. R. Lanman compounded for his subscription as Foreign Member. Indian Museum. The list of Trustees appointed by the Asiatic Society to the Muse- um under Act XXII of 1876, remained unaffected by the new Indian Museum Act, No. IV, of 1887. Mr. A. Pedler was appointed a Trustee vice Mr. H. F. Blanford in April. 1888. ] Annual Report. 15 A collection of 20 old copper coins, presented to the Society by Babu Jogesh Chunder Dutt, was traasferred to the Museum, the So- ciety’s Cabinet being amply provided with coins of the several descrip- tions contained in the collection. Finance. The accounts of the Asiatic Society are shown in the Appendix under the usual heads. Statement No. 8 contains the Balance Sheet of the Asiatic Society and of the different Funds administered through it. The Budget of the year 1887 was estimated at the following figures : Receipts, Rs. 14,200 and Expenditure, Rs. 13,816. Taking into account only the ordinary items of receipt and expendi- ture for the year 1887, the actual results have been :—Receipts, Rs. 14,082-10-1, and Expenditure, Rs. 13,267-13-5 leaving a balance in favour of the Society on its ordinary working of Rs. 814-12-8. In the present year’s accounts there are, however, shown in the first place a large item under extraordinary receipts due to the sale of a narrow strip of the Society’s land to Government for the purpose of widening the footpath in Park Street amounting to Rs. 2,116, and on the other hand the total expenditure is swelled by the fact that some heavy repairs to the Society’s premises have had to be undertaken, during which many beams &c. have had to be changed, and the cost of them has amounted to no less than Rs. 2,489-10-0. The total receipts for the year 1887 have therefore been Rs. 16,198-10-1, and the total expenditure Rs. 15,757-7-5, which still shows a balance in favour of the Society of Rs. 441-2-8 on the gross transactions. This, however, is only anominal balance, for it has been decided to apply the amount received from the sale of the land towards the erection of a substantial iron railing in the place of the present boundary wall which has to be pulled down. The cost of such heavy repairs as have been carried out during the year 1887, cannot, however be fairly charged wholly to this one year, but should be spread over at least four or five, and the credit balance of the Society on the ordinary working shown to be Rs. 814-12-8 is a substantial set off against this item of expenditure which must be classed as extraordinary. The ordinary receipts for the year have been Rs. 14,082-10-1, against the estimated amount of Rs. 14,200. . The slight falling off in the receipts is mainly due to the very small amount of the sales of the Society’s publi- cations made by Messrs. Tribner and Co. during 1886; and which sales are credited in this year’s accounts. On the other hand one or two items of receipts show a decided advance; and thus the subscriptions 16 Annual Report. [Fes. have exceeded the budget estimate by more than five hundred rupees, part of which is accounted for by the receipt of a compounding fee from a foreign member. The ordinary expenditure was estimated in the last annual report to be Rs. 13,816, but the actual expenditure has been Rs. 13,267-13-5. Leaving out of consideration the extraordinary expendi- ture in building above referred to, the purchase of books has shown an excess on the budget expenditure of Rs. 340-15-5; the expenditure on the Journal has been smaller than that budgetted for by between seven and eight hundred rupees, and the Proceedings show a diminished cost of about a hundred rupees. There has thus been a total diminished expenditure below the budget allotment. The expenditure on Part IT of the Journal in 1887 has been very heavy, and thus out of a total ex- penditure of Rs, 3,421-2-6 on the Journal Rs. 3,000-10-3 have been de- bited to Part II. The budget estimate for ordinary expenditure and receipts for 1888 does not show much change from that of 1887. The probable receipts are put down as Rs. 14,000, and the ordinary expenditure at Rs. 13,824. On the receipts side, the estimate under the heading “ Sub- scriptions ” is based upon the average of the actual amounts received in the past 3 years. The amount estimated to be received from the sale of periodicals has been placed at Rs. 400; this estimate is Rs. 600 less than that of the previous year, but it is rather larger than the actual receipts of the past year. On the expenditure side the changes in the estimated amounts are merely nominal; and thus while in 1887, the esti- mated ordinary expenditure stood at Rs. 13,816, for 1888 it stands at Rs. 13,824. There will, however, be two extraordinary items of expenditure to be dealt with during the year 1888. The first item will be the erection of an iron railing in the place of the wall which has to be pulled down to widen the footpath in Park Street, and the erection of a new Durwan’s lodge. The cost of these is estimated to be about four thousand rupees, but against this more than two thousand rupees have been received by the sale of the strip of land. The second large item will be the continuation of the repairs to the Society’s: house, godowns &c. for which a further estimate of more than two thousand rupees has been sent in. If this work is carried out it will make a total expendi- ture of about Rs. 5,000 on repairs in the two years, and this excess ex- penditure will probably have to be temporarily met by the sale of perhaps four or five thousand rupees of the Government Securities be- longing to the Society. As before stated, such expenditure as this is not strictly chargeable to any one year, but should be equitably spread over a period of years. ware 1888. ] Annual Report. 17 The Budget Estimate for 1888 is as follows :— Recuiets. Subscription ve ved a Rs. 7,300 0 0 Sale of Periodicals ... ate eee bee 400 0 O Interest on Investment down. I may also point out that the general theorem which Col. Cun- ningham lays down, viz., the constancy of all fundamental properties of the osculating curve, is, for similar reasons, not at all the geometric —— oe 1888. | A. Mukhopadhyay—Remarks on Monge’s Equation. fii meaning of the differential equation of any curve. The other inter- pretations given in the Colonel’s paper are similarly wholly extraneous. To my mind, the matter appears to be simply this, viz., the differential equation of any curve is nothing kut the analytical representation of the vanishing of a certain geometrical quantity in connection with that curve, and the geometrical interpretation is exactly the process of dis- covering what this quantity is; Professor Sylvester’s interpretation is irrelevant as not satisfying the first test laid down above, and Col. Cunningham’s interpretation, as satisfying neither of the tests, has surely no better claims to our attention. But, gentlemen, it is possible to prove not only that the Colonel’s interpretation has entirely missed the mark, but also that itis the in- terpretation of a differential equation very different from the Mongian equation ; and, guided by the wholly erroneous interpretations which Col. Cunningham has given in the case of the straight line and circle, I have been able to discover the differential equation to which in reality belongs the geometrical interpretation given by the Colonel. In fact, ag we have already a priori shewn that the Colonel’s interpretation is irre- levant, we may further strengthen our position by shewing that the interpretation belongs to a differential equation, which, though wholly distinct from the Mongian equation, stands in a very important relation to it. Let us first take the case of the straight line, whose differential equation is interpreted by the Colonel to mean that the direction of a straight line is the same at all parts; this, as have already remarked, is totally erroneous. But, at the same time, the geometrical property is obviously the interpretation of the equation. dy ag which we at once recognize to be the first integral of dty 73 = which is the differential equation of all straight lines. Similarly, in the case of the circle, the interpretation given by the Colonel, viz., the curvature of a circle is constant, really belongs to the equation 78 A. Mukhopidhyay—Remarks on Monge’s Equation. [Fes. which, again, we recognize to be a first integral of d°y dy ( d?y A ce -) das? . Pee wa = which is the differential equation of all circles. Guided by these two analogous cases, we guess that the Colonel’s interpretation in the case of the conic may belong to a first integral of the Mongian equation, and, this point we now proceed to examine; the process will consist of two parts, viz., we shall first form the differential equation whose interpreta- tion is that the eccentricity of the osculating conic of any conic is con- stant, and, secondly, we shall examine whether this differential equation is a first integral of the Mongian equation. The Mongian equation being one of the fifth order, it is clear that it has five independent first integrals, and, curiously enough, gentle- men, Col. Cunningham’s interpretation does not belong to any of those first integrals which may easily be derived from the equation. Consi- der, now, the osculating conie of any conic; the equations of the two conics are identical, viz., either being an® + 2hay + by*+ 2gx+2fy+c = 0, we have y= Px+Q + Jf Aa? + 2H +B, where bivutd? ai taka ie De unetate KE: h? — ab hf — bg ae OE =r = a DS Hence, as usual, dy Az+H —_—= : iL ee ae das (Ax® + 2Hx +B)? a a AB — H? a Ce ae es = eae 2H«+B)? dz _ dy _ . 3(AB—H®) (Av +H) da da (Aa? +2Hx+B)? dz dy —«-3(AB— H®) { 4(Ax+H)? — (AB — H*)} SS eer ere eee a da? dat (Ax?+2Hx+B)? Now, as shewn in my previous paper (Journal A. 8. B. Vol. LVI, Part II, 140), if we employ z —*;' as an integrating factor, a first integral is obtained from —5 dz —S8dzd%z 40 -—W (F , 1888. | A. Mukhopadhy4y—Remarks on Monge’s Equation. 79 2 — ee = (¢ z) = = — 3¢}. The value of the left hand side is found on calculation to be — 3A (AB — H?) ~ to be Hence, ee Ga SROs aay te A3 where A is the discriminant of the conic. But, as the area of the conic is TA (ab — h?)? we have 2 (Area) * ogee al Cy It follows, therefore, that the geometric meaning of the above first integral of the Mongian equation is the constancy of the area of the osculating conic. Another first integral may be obtained as follows, viz., employing 2 ® asan integrating factor, we have from eee B\ —12 dz dé , 40 a a pe ate 3+3)* da da * 9" - a the first integral —idt 4 —12 (da? _ z xt = 3 @ g =) = OC. The value of the left hand side is found on calculation to be (always taking the upper sign) lo 1 Hence, =—(AB-—H?) - °. But, as AB — H?= be we have A= eK so that this first integral shews the constancy of ya pe It may be noted that both the above first integrals may be obtained 80 A. Mukhopaédhydy—Remarks on Monge’s Equation. [Fes. from Roberts’ Theorem that 8 19 /dz\3 3 he + cz -(¢ dx is a second integral of the Mongian equation, viz., differentiate this equation, then, eliminating c, we have one first integral, and, eliminating c', we have the other. The constancy of the quantities shewn above may also be shewn in another way, viz.,as Dr. Wolstenholme has shewn by actual calculation, (Educational Times Reprint, t. XXIV, 105) the equation of the conic leads to (3 9b (<4 A ae 9(h? — ab) ae dx? N= “At an", ye As dx* But, if we have dey faa (2 3 (53) = ey sy) where c, c’ are any two constants, we see that by differentiating twice and eliminating c, c’, the Mongian equation is obtained ; hence, the quantities 6b h?—ab —— 1? 2 As As are constants. From these we have es 2 3 co = beA 2 c, = (h®—ab) A Te so that cy _h®—ab vonieals These relations, however, do not shew the constancy of the eccentricity ; but, as the Mongian being an equation of the fifth order has five in- dependent first integrals, the fact of the eccentricity of the osculating conic being constant is probably the geometrical interpretation of one of the other three first integrals ; before, however, actually proceeding to form that equation, we shall show how the constancy of the eccentri- city may be otherwise established. Thus, we have i nad OSE ee (Aa? +2H2+B)? or, B— H2)3 Aw*+2H«e+B Je ag ? xX ¢o|to 1888. ] A. Mukhopadhyay—Remarks on Monge’s Equation. 8h and, from d ot! == 7 3 (AB — H*) (Az+H) (Av?4+2Hx2+B) ? = = 3 (Az+H) 2? (AB—H2)~ 3; we have U0 ey op plas ae Ol oN eg =) a aa Substituting in dy _p Ar+H ge he CoE a BS we get, after reduction is 210 CAB —H2)8 d3y Ce = dx Zz Now, it is clear from the mode of genesis of this equation, that if we differentiate it twice and eliminate P, (AB—H)8, we should obtain Monge’s equation; but, that would also be the case, if P, (AB— H2)8 are replaced by any two constants; hence, it follows that P and (AB — H?*) are constants. Now, as we have already shewn that hi—ab_ ih? a be 6 7b is a constant, we see, by remembering that h P= — 5 that is also a constant. But, the equation of the eccentricity is a 7] (2—e%)* (a+b) _ (; i 1) : 1—& ~ab—h® a fe ’ by 2 so that it follows at once that the constancy of the eccentricity is the geometrical interpretation of a first integral of the Mongian equation. We now proceed to form the actual differential equation whose geometrical meaning is the constancy of the eccentricity. The above investigation shews that 4 dty\ > | dy dy (d*y = (=) Near ere Gal 4 3 82 A. Mukhopadhyay—Remarks on Monge’s Equation. [ Fes. where K,, K, are any two constants is a second integral of the Mongian equation. From this we have 4 ihe \(=3) d a By =o) ee da == Taking the logarithmic differential, we get déy dy dy dat Add dad 1) dy 3 dty dy dix da® dx? which gives dy d*y dy dy (d*y d*y\? dey p- de dx® dat at (Tt) = a) dx? in eal SE) (3 ) dx? dat dx* Let, =3 Tt has (Tuy du® dax* dx® dy d*y dy \2 vee da? dav a 4a) da \da® fee pga dx du® da We y iF dey vy dy Naat) dat da Now as H P=— . we have b oe sa bee ee But, we have shewn that Cf Oh a ce be OD’ a C whence, ee cle x h — 7 = Cz. Therefore, the equation for the eccentricity becomes a 2 = 2 ea (+1) foraten-a) Lee ae ee — Cy Cy" 1888. ] A. Mukhopadhyay—Remarks on Monge’s Equation. 83 To get the actual equation for the eccentricity, we have now simply to substitute for ¢, C2, cz, the differential expressions to which they are equivalent. For this purpose, we recall that the two first integrals = 8s —8 f{dz\? fe ae at a ( = — st, dx? dx — 2 dez = kon f dz\4 z Hae = 4 a (=) = DCo lead to the relations d*y dy dy which give Hence, we have W2 W2+v2 Data a se aan eee and cy? (1 +03") = Therefore, cy (1+ es") — 4 = 20 5 See ene dzy csi d2y 3 ence) a) where 2y 32 \2 2 day T d@y d*y t (=) 93 w) d*y d*y dx® dz dx? dx} da* dx* dy\* (d®y\? dty\* | dy S 2 By 7 @) =) he a) ae = da 84 A. Mukhopddhyay—Remarks on Monge’s Equation. [ Fus. Also, U V2 28° 3 dey 729 (3) Hence, finally, we have (2— 6)" { og8 (1+-0,2) — c, }” it a3 e Fa Cy Co? 1 T2 This, therefore, is the differential equation to which in reality belongs Col. Cunningham’s interpretation. I may mention in passing that when e® = 2. we have T =0, and, when e?=1, we have U =0; so that, T=0 is the differential equation of all equilateral hyperbolas, U=0 of all parabolas, V=0 of all pairs of right lines, and, W=0 of all central conics, I may also remark that I have never seen the eccentricity thus expressed in terms of the differential coefficients. Also, since Cy Coe a and, q=— we have, and, I have never seen the area expressed in this form.* * Of course, the two absolute invariants, viz., the area and the eccentricity, may be expressed in terms of the radius of curvature p, and arc, s; thus, we have 27 7 p? 1888. ] A. Mukhopadhyay—Remarks on Monge’s Equation. 85 We now proceed to verify that the differential equation (2-#* 1 T? 1-@& ~ o(o iad 9 =) whose geometrical meaning is Col. Cunningham’s theorem about the constancy of the eccentricity, is a first integral of the Mongian equation, Thus, putting dy dy dey d*y dy P= Ga T= aa? "> da? Ga dac®’ we have, GalentS eptie s 1-@ 9g UV’ so that taking the logarithmic differential and remembering that —_ (1+ p*) (3 gt — 5 rs) +10 gr (3 g? —2 pr) dU Tne tes, we get q? (3 q? — 2 pr) (45 qrs — 9q 2t — 40 1°) = (1+ p?)(qs— 2 7?) (45 grs — 9 g#t — 40 7°), which proves that the equation of the eccentricity leads on differentia- tion to the equation 9 g?t — 45 qrs+40 r> = 0 and is, therefore, a first integral of the Mongian equation. Gentlemen, I have now examined the subject as completely as was necessary to shew the erroneous nature of Col. Cunningham’s interpreta- tion. I have explained to you, as lucidly as I could, the true meaning of geometrically interpreting a differential equation, and I have shewn you that the Colonel’s interpretation signally fails to satisfy the funda- mental tests which every geometrical interpretation ought to satisfy; I have, further, pointed out to you that the Colonel’s interpretation really belongs to a differential equation which is quite distinct from the Mongian equation, and, by actually forming that equation (as I have never seen done before), I have proved it to be a first integral of the Mongian equation. But, gentlemen, as this first primitive contains an arbitrary constant, it denotes any member of the given family of curves, while the differential equation itself indiscriminately denotes all the members of the family. Col. Cunningham’s interpretation, therefore, involves a quantity, which remains constant as we pass from point to point on the same curve, but varies aS we pass from one curve of the system to another. In reality, therefore, he failed to perceive the fundamental difference between a differential equation and its first primitive ; he did not notice that while 86 A. Mukhopadhyay— On Poisson’s Integral [ Fup. the differential equation holds for every point of every curve of the system, the first primitive holds only for every point of the same curve, the different curves of the family being obtained by the variation of the constant which occurs in the first primitive. There can be no doubt that, failing to notice this distinction, Col. Cunningham has given an interpretation which belongs not to the Mongian equation but to one of its first primitives. Indeed, gentlemen, the error into which he has fallen reminds me of an old story with which you are familiar in eastern lore ; you have often been told how an oriental king, desirious of testing the powers of an astrologer placed a finger-ring set with precious stones ~ in a casket, aad having closed it asked the astrologer to divine its con- tents ; the astrologer moved the admiration of the prince when after long calculation, he pronounced the contents to be a hard stone, circular in form, with a hole in the centre and an object of every-day use; but, imagine the disappointment of the king when on pressing the astrologer, he was told that the hidden object was a grinding stone such as you find in every Hindu household. Such is the facility of error where we have to fix upon a particular object from a not very definite description of it, and, Col. Cunningham’s paper shews that such an error is possible even in an exact science like mathe- matics. To sum up: the Colonel’s remarks do not refer to any of the vital points of my paper, and, as to his geometrical interpretation of the Mongian equation, it is wholly irrelevant. I, therefore, stick to my statement that the true interpretation of the Mongian equation has yet to be found.* The following paper was read— On Poisson’s Integral— By Basu Asvutosnh Muxuopdpuydy, M. A, Ph, A, 8S. F, R.8.. &, » (Abstract.) The object of the author in the present paper has been mainly to discuss a remarkable definite integral, which was first considered by Poisson in his memoir on definite integrals, inserted in the tenth volume (seventeenth cahier) of the Journal de Vécole Polytechnique. The paper is divided into four sections, of which the first is introductory. The second section is devoted to a consideration of the transformation of the integral ; the method of reduction is first applied to a generalized indefinite form of Poisson’s integral, from which Poisson’s result is de- duced with ease; and the process at once leads to four remarkable ° definite integrals which are believed to be new. ‘The third section gives *® Since these remarks were made, I have sucteeded in discovering the geo- metrical meaning of the differential equation of all parabolas, which I hope to communicate to the Society at an early date. 1888.] | Library. 87 a symbolic value for 7, which is deduced as an immediate consequence, as well of Poisson’s integral, as of an analogous definite integral also considered by that eminent mathematician. 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The Nineteenth Century,—Vol. XXIII, No, 131, J anuary, 1888. —_———, Society of Arts,—Journal, Vol. XXXVI, Nos. 1830—1834. 7! | 7 \ i My if ) a — yy *« i ~— - rs 7 hl A Basel =. | - us; ie L = | a ‘ | I ) 1 r 0 7 i 7 % rc } “ 1 Mi 4 4 es GN i ioe : “al La ge A PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, FoR Marcu, 1888, ge og tetas eS The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was held on Wednesday, the 7th March 1888, at 9 p. m. Lizut.-Cou. J. WATERHOUSE, President, in the chair. The following members were present : Nawab Abdul Latif Bahadur, C. I. E., E. T. Atkinson, Esq., W. R. Criper, Esq., S. R. Elson, Hsq., EH. Gay, Esq., Dr. Hoernle, Prince Jahan Qadr Muhammad Wahid Ali, Bahadur, H. J. Jones, Esq., Rev. Father HB. Lafont, Babu Asutosh Mukhopadhyaya, T. R. Munro, Esq., L. de Nicéville, Esq., Moung Hla Oung, Hsq., H. M. Percival, Esq., Hon. Dr. Mahendraldla Sarkér, C. I. E., C. H. Tawney, Esq., D. Waldie, Esq., J. Wood-Mason, Esq. — T. D. La Touche, Esq., visitor. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. Twenty-seven presentations were announced, as detailed in the appended Library List. The following gentlemen are candidates for election at the next meeting : Babu Hariddsa Shastri, Principal, Maharaja’s College, Jeyptr, pro- posed by Pandit Haraprasada Shastri, seconded by H. M. Percival, Esq. Maulvi Ahmad, Arabic Professor, Presidency College, proposed by Nawab Abdul Latif Bahadur, seconded by A. Pedler, Esq. The following gentleman has intimated his wish to withdraw from the Society : F. C. Barnes, Esq. The Secretary reported the death of the following member : S. S. Jones, Esq., C. S. 94 Appointment of Committees. [ Marcy, The SrcreTary read the names of the following gentlemen who had been appointed by the Council to serve on the several Committees during the year : LIBRARY COMMITTEE. Nawab Abdul Latif, Bahadur. Raja Rajendralala Mitra. H. ¥. T. Atkinson, Esq. Mahamahopadhyaya Pundit Mahesa- K. Gay, Esq. chandra Nyayaratna. Babu Pratapachandra Ghosha. Hon. Dr. Mahendralala Sarkar. Prince Jahan Qadr Muhammad W. L. Sclater, Esq. Wahid Ali, Bahadur. Dr. J. Scully. Dr. W. King. FINANCE COMMITTEE. E. F. T. Atkinson, Hsq. Babu Pratapachandra Ghosha. K. Gay, Esq. Raja Rajendraléla Mitra. PHILOLOGICAL COMMITTEE. Nawab Abdul Latif, Bahadur. C. J. Lyall, Esq. H. Beveridge, Esq. Raja Rajendralala Mitra. J. Beames, Esq. Babu Nilmani Mukerjee. J. Boxwell, Esq. Mahamahopadhyaya Pundit Mahega- Dr. A. Fuhrer. chandra Nyayaratna. G. A. Grierson, Esq. Hon. Ajodhyanatha Pandit. F. S. Growse, Esq. Hon. Dr. Mahendralala Sarkar. Babu Pratapachandra Ghosha. Babu Haraprasada Shastri. Prince Jahan Qadr Muhammad Hon. Sir Sayyid Ahmad. Wahid Ali, Bahadur. C. H. Tawney, Esq. Col. H. S. Jarrett. Dr. G. Thibaut. Maulavi Khuda Bakhsh Khan Col. A. C. Toker. Bahadur. Coins ComMItTEE. Dr. A. Fuhrer. J. H. Rivett-Carnac, Esq. A. Hoge, Esq. C. J. Rodgers, Esq. Raja Rajendralala Mitra. V. A. Smith, Esq. Lt.-Col. W. L. Prideaux. History AND ARCHZOLOGICAL CoMMITTER. Syud Amir Ali. Babu Pratépachandra Ghosha. J. Beames, Esq. Mahamahopadhyaya Kaviraj Shya- H. Beveridge, Hsq. maldas. Babu Gaurdas Bysack. Raja Rajendralala Mitra. 1888. } ) Appointment of Commattees. 95 W. Hz. P. Driver, Esq. J. H. Rivett-Carnac, Esq. Dr. A. Fuhrer. Capt. R. C. Temple. F. 8. Growse, Esq. | Natura History ComMMITTEE. H. H. Anderson, Esq. C. 8. Middlemiss, Esq. Dr. A. Barclay. L. de Nicéville, Esq. EK. C. Cotes, Esq. Dr. Fritz Noetling. _ Dr. D. D. Cunningham. R. D. Oldham, Esq. J. F. Duthie, Esq. S. EH. Peal, Esq. Dr. G. M. Giles. Dr. J. Scully. HE. J. Jones, Esq. W. L. Sclater, Esq. Dr. G. King. Col. C. Swinhoe. Dr. W. King. PuysicaL Science ComMirres. P. N. Bose, Esq. J.J. D. La Touche, Esq. Dr. D. D. Cunningham. C. S. Middlemiss, Esq. J. Kliot, Esq. Babu Asutosh Mukhopadhyaya. S. R. Elson, Esq. Dr. Fritz Noetling. Dr. G, M. Giles. R. D. Oldham, Esq. S. A. Hill, Esq. Hon. Dr. Mahendralala Sarkar. KH. J. Jones, Esq. Dr. W. J. Simpson. Rev. Father Lafont. D. Waldie, Esq. Do Ws King. The PresipeNT announced that the Hon. Adjodhyanatha Pandit, of Allahabad, had compounded for his subscription as a non-Resident member by the payment in a single sum of Rs. 300. The PrestpeENtT announced that the Council had sanctioned the publication in the Bibliotheca Indica of Bhattotpaéla’s commentary on Varaha Mihira’s Brihat Samhita, to be edited by Dr. G. Thibaut ; also that they had appointed Messrs. Meugens and King to be Auditors of the Society’s Accounts for 1888. The PuinonogicaL Secretary read the following extract from a letter from Prof. E. Senart :— “ J’ai vu les deux rochers de Mauhrah et de Shahbaz Garhi. J’espére que ma visite ne sera pas tout-d-fait sans résultat pour l’établissement de ces textes. Malheureusement ils sont, pour une grande partie, en si fAcheuse condition, qu’il n’y a aucun espoir d’arriver jamais a une con- clusion définitive. Je vous ai écrit, je pense, que le xii e édit venait d’étre retrouvé a Shahbaz Garhi paride capitaine Deane. A Mauhrah il ne 96 Philological Secretary—LReports on find of ancient coins. [Marcu, manque dans les xiv édits que les Nos. 13 et 14. Je ne doute pas qu’ils n’existent quelque part autour des pierres connues. Mais je n’ai pu ni les découvrir ni recueillir aucun renseignement. II faudrait avoir plus de temps dans la place. Tout ce pays-la est plein de promesses certaines pour qui saurait y chercher. J’espére bien des choses de l’intelligence de capitaine Deane. Tl a trouvé récemment de curieuses sculptures en bois trés-anciennes. Elles m’ont fait repenser a cette grande masse de forme conique sculptée de pierres que nous avons vue ensemble 4 |’Indian Museum. Je serais bien curieux d’en avoir de bonnes photographies. Si vous trouviez possible d’en obtenir je serais tout disposé 4 faire quelques frais dans ce but.” The PuHrtoLogicaL Secretary exhibited two silver coins of the reign of Gangeya’ Deva, the Kalachuri raja of Chedi, received from the Government, N.-W. P. and Oudh. The PxHiLoLogicAL SECRETARY read reports on two finds of Treasure Trove coins. I. Report on 37 silver pieces, forwarded by the Deputy Com- missioner of Jabalpur, with his No. 600, dated 13th February 1888. 1. The silver pieces are said to have been found in a place called Khitoba, in the Jabalpur district. 2. They make up 36 silver coins, two of the pieces being fragments of one coin. These coins belong to the well-known class of “old Hindi punch coins,” bearing a variety of symbols punched on their surface, generally on one side only. There are, among these 36 coins, 30 of a more or less square or oblong, and 6 of a more or less circular shape. Some of these bear punches on both sides. Most of them are of more or less impure silver. They are worth from two to four annas each. II. Report on eleven old rupees, forwarded by the Deputy Com- missioner of Shahpur, with his No. 1141, dated 15th December 1887. 1. The coins were found by a labourer while digging for a founda- tion near a Khangah named Azim Jatti at Badar, on the Chenab, in the” Shahpur District. 2. They are Rupees of the following Mogul emperors of Delhi :— No. of specimen, I. Aurangzvb, 1068—1118 A. H. = 1658—1707 A. D., dates 1111, 43—1105, Mints: Strat, Akbar- MOREE MGA ck Be ec tiw niet uke Hee ate ike has II. Muhammad Shah, 1181—1161 A. H. = 1719—1748. a, Sahib Qirdn type, dates 114*, 19—11**, 25 — 11**, 5 1***, 8—Mint :—Shahjehanabad... 5 1888. | Babu Gaurdas Bysack— On the Barisal Guns. 97 b, Badshah Ghazt type, dates: 1146, 16—113*, 5—do.— Mint: Akbardbad wo... cesses see ce 3 Potak "2; 1l 3. They are not in a state of good preservation, and belong to very common types. Their value is R. 1 each. The PurinotoaicaL SECRETARY read the following note from Mr. V. A. Smith regarding a paper on the Gupta coinages, on which he is engaged : “Mr. V. A. Smith is engaged in preparing a paper on the silver and copper Gupta coinages, with supplementary notes on the gold coinage, and will be much obliged for any information on the subject with which he may be favoured. Details of the weight and find-spots of coins will be especially welcome. Mr. Smith believes that the Gupta copper coins are not so rare as has been supposed, and that many of them probably exist in private collections. Until November 1888 Mr. V. A. Smith’s address will be ‘‘ Care of Messrs. Wm. Watson & Co., 27 Leadenhall Street, London, E. C.” ”’ The following papers were read— 1. On the Barisal Guns.—By Basu Gaurpds Bysack (postponed from last meeting.) I need scarcely make an apology for reverting to the subject of the physical phenomenon known as the Barisal Guns, a subject too impor- tant and too interesting to be lost sight of, or buried in oblivion. My object in doing so, is to place on record certain facts that have come to my notice since the subject was, for the first time I believe, broached at your meeting in 1867, (vide my paper on the Antiquities of Bagirhat published in Part I of the Journal for 1867, Vol. XXXVDJ), and to ask you not only to invite the attention of all learned scientific gentlemen, but to organise a system of enquiry and observation with a view to arrive at a solution of the problem. F You are already aware that the sounds resemble the booming of distant cannonade, and that they are usually heard during the months from April to September in a lull after a squall, or after a shower of rain, or when the clouds begin to break np. Barisal Guns they are called because at Barisal the explosions happened to be first noticed, but the area is vast over which such noises are heard. They are heard as high up as at Fureedpur and all over the south of Backergunj and Jessore (now Khulna) specially in the neighbourhood of the Baleswar river. Recent facts that have come to my knowledge shew that other places than those enumerated above are wont to enjoy the honor of these mysterious salutes. 98 Babu Gaurdas Bysack—On the Barisal Guns. [ Marcu, Similar sounds are heard, I heard them distinctly, at Tumlook. While in temporary charge of the Sub-Division during April and May 1883, and staying in the Government Bungalow standing formerly some way off, but at the time of my residence only 25 feet from the edge of the high bank that was being cut away by the river Rupnarayan, it was on an afternoon between 1 and 2 o’clock that, after a shower of rain, the reports like those of a distant cannon struck my ears. The simi- larity of the sounds to what I knew as Barisal Guns at once attracted my notice and excited my curiosity. I made an enquiry of the oldest inhabitants, and they told me that they were accustomed to hear the sounds from their childhood, but they knew not how to account for them, at least no superstitious legend like the Khanja Ally salutes ascribed to the Barisal Guns was attached to them. I utilised the opportunity by sending out a dinghy to cruise up and down the river for several miles, in order to ascertain if the banks had any where fallen in heavy masses, but nothing of the kind was discovered to favour the theory of those who ascribe the noise to such a cause. When I mentioned the fact to Mr. Medlicott he told me that he has heard from a friend that similar sounds are heard at Cherra Punji. Babu Karunadas Bose of the Subordinate Judicial Service, an inhabitant of Dacca, wrote to me to say that these strange reports are heard in Vikrampur, more frequently in the wet than in the dry weather, but never in Dacca. These places are far out of the reach of the sea-beach, a fact that directly discountenances the surf theory, 7. e., surf breaking on the sea- shore and causing the noise, which seems to have found favour with certain learned gentlemen, who confidently laid stress upon it when the subject came in for fresh discussion at your meeting in August 1870: the theory, however, still remains where it was in the dark region of conjecture. In order to arrive at a correct solution of the problem one must enquire on the spot, and frame his inquiries according to such informa- tion as he can collect, and such suggestions as he may gather from his first impressions. Any one who hears the noise may trace out its cause and origin. Very little can be suggested by one who has not heard it, and who is many hundred miles away. Mr. Blanford told me that with that view a set of questions from the Society were prepared, printed and circulated, but that no information was received in reply to them. Diligent search was made for a copy of the questions but without SUCCESS. I would suggest that a fresh effort be made to collect information, or to direct inquiry from a scientific point of view, so that the origin or cause of the sounds may he ascertained with as much precision or 1888. ] Babu Gaurd4s Bysack—On the Barisdl Guns. 99 accuracy, as the resources of science may enable us to do. If necessary, Government might be requested to aid the endeavours of the Society by asking the local officers of the places in which the sound is audible to institute inquiries in reference to the points suggested in the paper of questions that may be sent out to them. The theories that have been hazarded to account for the cause of the phenomenon are the following : 1st. Breaking up of surf. 2nd. Falling of heavy masses of earth in the river. srd. EHlectrical discharges under water, or explosive gases stirred up by some sort of volcanic action escaping through the waters. 4th. Some subterranean or volcanic agency. Postscript. Since the above was written copies of the former series of queries referred to by me have turned up. I wrote with a copy of them to my friend Mr. P. N. Mittra, Barrister-at-Law, who resided at Barisal for several years, and whose professional duties took him to all parts not only of Backerganj, but also the neighbouring districts, asking him to let me have his impressions of the phenomenon. The answers given by him are noted below : 1, “The sounds are like the reports of big guns going at a distance. They are always heard at regular intervals, sometimes following one another in quick succession like minute guns, sometimes at intervals of 10 or 15 minutes. So faras I have been able to observe, I have heard these guns going sometimes for 3 or 4 hours together. 2. These reports are generally heard in the mornings and evenings, and seldom or never in the middle cf the day. They may be heard at all times of the night. 3. The rainy season is the time of the year when these reports are most frequently heard. They are generally heard after a heavy shower, and sometimes before, just when the clouds have formed in the sky. 4. The reports seem generally to come from the south and are always accompanied by a south wind. I observed these phenomena in the town of Barisal itself and also in the southern parts of the Dis- trict of Backerganj. 5. I know from personal experience that they are heard most fre- quently during the rains. I have never heard them in the cold weather or at the beginning of the hot weather either, during my eight years’ experience in the district of Backerganj. 6. I never heard these sounds at Rungypore, and I am not aware that they are heard there. I have heard that these sounds can be 100 Babu Gaurdas Bysack—On the Barisal Guns. [ Marcu, heard at Rajpur near the Sonarpur Railway Station (EH. B. S. Railway) a few miles south of Calcutta.” It is necessary, with a view to see that all the facts already ascer- tained are correctly placed in their true light, and beyond the possi- bility of a doubt or dispute, that I should refer to one or two points in Mr. Mittra’s answers, and also in the lucid summary of our President. Mr. Mittra observed that he never heard these sounds during the cold weather. This qualifies the remark I made in my first paper on the Antiquities of Bagerhat, that at that station the sounds are heard at all times of the year. I did not carefully specify the periods when these sounds are most frequent, but generally stated that they occur most distinctly during a lullafter a storm, or after a heavy shower of rain. It was not noticed by me that they were heard before a shower. It is certain that they do not occur after every shower of rain. I know from personal experience that at Barisal these sounds are very common, as common as they are at Bagirhat, but the fact recorded by me that, though the sounds are heard at Bagirhat they are not heard at places near there, nor in other parts of the Sunderbunds equally distant from the shores of the Bay, and where the surf is violent, might, I suspect, be open to correction. It may be accounted for in this way, that during the cold weather, November to February, I used to be absent from the Station and moving about (on tour) in the interior of the Subdivision, and the reason why I did not hear the sounds at the places I encamped, is because they did not occur at all. Having been familiar with the noise during nine months of the year at Bagirhat, it was but natural that the impression left on my mind was that it is heard at all times of the year, but this, as well as the fact of its being altogether inaudible during the cold weather in all parts of the two districts in question, should be tested by due inquiry and accurate ob- servation before they are accepted or rejected for the purpose of ascer- taining the cause of the phenomenon. I was hitherto under the impression that the sound is not audible at Khulna, as it was never noticed by me although my stay there ex- tended over 9 months (May to December) in 1863, and 17 months in 1869-70: but I observe that it is and has been heard there. My friend Babu Bunkim Chunder Chatterjee, who was in charge of the Subdi- vision for several years, writes me to say, ‘Rainey is right after all. I remember very well that I used to hear the Barisaul guns while at Khulna. I also remember that they were . audible at various places within the Subdivision further east. I dis- tinctly remember that I heard them on one occasion while encamped at Tala on the Kaputaka. Ihave always thought the only possible way — 1888. ] Lt.-Col. J. Waterhouse—On the Barisdl Guns. 101 of accounting for these noises is to accept the current theory that they proceed from subterranean sources.” I mention this to shew that people are generally indifferent to external occurrences, however curious or extraordinary in their nature, ‘until their attention is drawn by somebody. The fact mentioned by Mr. Mittra that the sounds are not known at Rungpore should be noted, as it is very near the Teesta, a very big and boisterous river; Mr. Mittra resided there for a long time. : The character of the sounds bears a strong resemblance to the booming of distant cannonade: it is neither like the rattle of musketry nor like the rumbling sound that precedes an earthquake, nor the crashing noise caused by the falling in of large masses of earth. If Mr. Elson had once heard the real Barisal Guns he would have at once given up the idea that they were due to the falling in of the river banks on the bight either of the Hughly or the Baleswar. Imay mention here an incident to illustrate the sharpness—the intensity with which the reports sometimes break on our ears. It was at Bagirhat on a moonlight night at about 9 Pp. m. that a report like that of a gun struck my ears. My servants had my permission to use my gun to shoot the pariah dogs or jackals that infested the compound, I called out to them to inquire what the matter was; they said they did not use the gun, but that it was the Khanja Ali salute. Referring to the surf theory, itis said “the transmission of sound waves is, however, dependent very much on the conditions under which it takes place, and when these are favourable they travel to enormous distances,” but I cannot conceive that the conditions under which sound travels could be so materially different as to render the Barisal Guns distinctly audible at Tumlook, and thoroughly inaudible at Diamond Harbour, almost a seaboard town. The Prusipent read the following letter from Mr. H. J. Rainey on the subject : Ratney VILLA, Khulna, Feb. 23, 1888. Dear Sir, I have heard that at the next meeting of the Society a paper will be read on the so-called “ Barisal Guns”: I have for many years taken a great interest in the subject, and as I do not think it is at all likely that a satisfactory solution of the physical phenomena can be arrived at without a series of independent observations from various places in the districts where the sounds are heard, I would suggest that printed forms stating the several points on which information is desirable, should 102 Lt.-Col. J. Waterhouse— On the Barisal Guns. [ Marca, be circulated to the several meteorological stations where the “ Barisal Guns ”’ are likely to be heard, and to all residents in such localities who may be expected to assist im the investigation. If you will refer to one of my articles on “ Jessore”’ published in the Calcutta Review, Vol. LXIII, p. 7, you will find that Mr. H. F. Blanford of the Meteorological Department, the then Secretary of the Society, forwarded to me such forms for circulation, but though some of my friends were good enough to promise to assist in the enquiry by recording their observations, yet not a single return was sent tome. The Society, however, acting directly with public and private persons, if it resolves to do so, is likely to meet with success. I may add that I shall be very glad to assist in any way in investi- gating the matter if my aid is at all necessary. Yours faithfully, H. J. RAIney. Tn continuation the Presipenr said that the Society were much indebted to Babu Gaurdas Bysack for having again brought this in- teresting subject before their notice, and the paper is particularly interesting because it gives additional names of places where these sounds have been heard. It was much to be regretted that former efforts of the Society to elucidate the origin of these curious sounds had been unsuccessful, and that during the 18 years that had elapsed since the subject was discussed at the Society’s meetings no new facts had been brought forward regarding them. In the absence of more definite information than already existed, it was difficult to see in what direction further enquiries could usefully be prosecuted. As it might be interesting to the meeting he had drawn up a short memorandum of the facts already recorded regarding these mysterious sounds. First as tothe sounds themselves:—Most observers agree that. they resemble the reports of guns fired or explosions at a distance. Sometimes the sound is dull, at others loud enough to wake a person from sleep. They are heard sometimes singly, sometimes in rapid succession or at intervals, occasionally lasting for several hours. In his paper on the “ Antiquities of Bagirhdt ” (Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1867), Babu Gaurdds Bysack describes it as a dull roaring sound, as of the booming of distant cannonade, which is said to be fired by aerial hands in honour of Khanja Ali, or Khan Jahan, who was tehsildar of Baghirhat some 400 years ago. Mr. Pellew says the noise exactly resembles the sound of surf as heard by him at Piri, when, on account of the cessation of the S. W. Proceedings, As, Soc, Bengal, 1888. , PLATE Il. 7 IN a ark ‘4 ate Light. House. Rutubdia. = Cu rita. Sp aipoor A) Vhoorva RK. Chapd Rife P'Talmyras Myo 4 Alcya fe} B A L ‘Koradys’ 420; yannath a @ Indicates places where the sounds have been heard MAP SHOWING THE PLACES WHERE THE BARISAL GUNS HAVE BEEN HEARD. Scale 4 Inch = 64 Miles, Printed form a transfer to stone in the Litho. Office, Survey of India Dept., Calcutta, May ses. me cet 2 ey 1888. ] Lt.-Col. J. Waterhouse—On the Barisdl Guns. 103 Monsoon, the swell rises to an unusual height before breaking and then breaks simultaneously for perhaps a length of 3 miles of coast, the succession of reports being caused by the breaking of successive waves along the beach. Mr. Beveridge has referred very fully to this phenomenon in his * Account of the District of Bakarganj.” He says the sounds are heard like the discharge of cannon in Bakarganj, and part of Dacca, Farid- pur, and Jessore at the beginning of the rains, 7. e., in May and June. At Barisal the sound comes from the S. and S. W., and is generally heard in a south wind and before rain. It is sometimes heard only for a minute or two; sometimes it continues for one or two hours, at inter- vals of two or three minutes between each discharge. It seems to be heard usually in the evening or at night, but perhaps this is only because the attention is more drawn to 1t in the absence of other noises. It has been supposed by some that the sounds are merely those of guns fired at marriages ; by others that they are caused by the falling in of the river banks. But they are heard away to the south, among the Sundarbans where there are no marriages, and where there are no high river banks to fallin. They are heard down at Kukri Mukri, the most southerly island in the district, and the Maghs there say that they are distinct from the noise of breakers or of the tide coming in. The natives say it is the sound of the opening and shutting of Ravan’s gates in the Island of Lanka (Ceylon), which fiction, as Mr. Beveridge remarks, is valuable because it shews that the sound comes from the south. And he con- cludes by saying that it is not altogether impossible that it originates in that curious submarine depression in front of Jessore and Bakarganj which is known by the name of the ‘‘ Swash of no ground.” In another part of the same work Mr. Beveridge records that he was told by a native of Kukri Mukri that the sounds were sometimes heard from the north,-—south, and south-west. The statement as regards their coming from the north is important because they are nearly always reported as coming from the south. Captain W. J. Stewart, of the Revenue Survey, describes the sound as similar to the noise caused by the explosion of torpedoes under water, but at a great distance. Mr. H. J. Rainey says the sounds resemble the report of cannons or loud explosions heard at a distance. Occasionally the reports are heard 3 or 4 times in rapid succession, while at others a minute or two intervenes between them. Mr. Westland heard them at Jessore during the night, exactly like the distant firing of cannon occurring in single detonations and at irregular intervals. 104, Lt.-Col. J. Waterhouse—On the Barisal Guns. Marcu, Other observers record them as occurring at intervals of a few seconds. The sounds are heard not only at Barisal, where they are very distinct, but over the whole delta of the Ganges from the Htighli to the Megna. They are recorded from Cherra Punji, but do not appear to be generally heard further north than Dacca and Faridpur, and are not heard at Balasor. Sir W. Herschel says he never heard them spoken of as occurring at Kushtia, Rajshahaye, Nadiya or Maldah. It is curious to note that the sounds are somewhat capricious, being frequently heard at certain places, but not at others close by. They appear to be almost invariably heard from a southerly direc- tion. According to Mr. H. J. Rainey they are quite independent of the direction of the wind and come from the south and south east directions, after a heavy fall of rain, or cessation of a squall and while the tide is rising. Captain Stewart says they are always heard in Barisal from one direction, and there and at Kukri Mukri, Chapli Chur, Tiger Point and other places in the Sundarbuns he noticed the sounds always from the direction of the depression known as the ‘‘ Swash of no- Ground,” and from the fact of the direction being always the same he argues against the sounds being caused by the falling in of river banks, falling of trees or firing of bombs. Mr. Beveridge says that at Barisal the sounds come from the south and south-west, and are generally heard in a south wind and before rain. At the Island of Kukri Mukri they are said to be heard from the north, south and south west, and to be quite unconnected with the bore, the tides, or the surf. Mr. T. R. Sarr reports their occurrence at Luckipara Factory, district Jessore, on the 28th June 1871, between 5 and 6 Pp. m. from the N. W., the direction of the wind being 8. W. Reports sudden and momentary like bombs. The sounds are said to have been heard at all hours of the day or night, though more often in the stillness of evening or night. Mr. Sarr reports them as occurring principally through the day. They appear to be usually observed during the hot weather and rainy months from March to September. Mr. Sarr heard them near Jessore in May and June only. In 1870 they were frequent; in 1871 few and far between. Captain Stewart heard them in the Sundarbans in March 1862 and again at Chapli Chur, on the Sea-face, in March 1863, as well as in * April and May at Barisal. Mr. Rainey says they are only heard during the 8S. W. Monsoon and rainy season. 1888. | Lt.-Col. J. Waterhouse—On the Barisal Guns. 105 They appear to be heard more distinctly after rain or in the lull after a squall, but are also recorded as occurring before rain. Several theories have been brought forward to account for these sounds, and among them the principal are: (1.) The breaking of enormous surf rollers on the shores of the upper part of the Bay of Bengal; the sound of this travelling inland along the surface of the rivers, and to long distances under the favour- able atmospheric conditions of the 8. W. Monsoon. (IL) The breaking down of the banks of the rivers in the vicinity of places where they are heard. (III.) The firing of bombs or guns on the occasion of marriages. (IV.) Subterranean or sub-aqueous volcanic or seismic agencies. (V.) Atmospheric electricity. Also by the bursting of bamboos or the falling of trees in the jungles. The evidence hitherto recorded, however, in support of these possible causes is altogether insufficient to warrant our attributing the sounds to any one of them. It is evident that the first theory is dependent upon the proximity of the places where the sounds are heard to the sea coast or to rivers along which the sound could be carried. Now we find that they are heard in nearly all parts of the Gangetic delta, a tract of almost absolutely flat country bordering the extreme north-western corner of the Bay of Bengal, extending from the Highli to the Meena, and intersected by innumerable streams and water-courses. They appear to be most common along the course of the Megna, but have also frequently been heard along the course of the Haranghatta about the middle of the Delta. Babu Gaurdas Bysack records that at Bagirhat, on a tributary of the Haranghatta at a distance of about 56 miles from the open sea, _ they are heard at all times of the year, particularly when the weather is calm and the sky clear. They are most distinct after a storm or heavy shower of rain. At Barisal, on the Baleswar River, about 34 miles from the sea, they are equally prominent, and are heard all over south Jessore and Bakar- ganj, at least in the neighbourhood of the Baleswar River, and extend- ing to the foot of the Chittagong Hills. Mr. Pellew, who has given a good deal of information about them, says he has not heard them himself west of Morellgunj on the Haranghatta, about 42 miles from the sea, though Mr. Rainey has recorded them at Khulna, which is situated at the confluence of the Bhairab and Rupsa rivers, about 60 miles from the sea. Babu Gaurdas Bysack has, however, recorded the curious fact that 106 Lt.-Col. J. Waterhouse —On the Barisal Guns. { Marcu, though the sounds are heard at Baghirhaét they are not heard at places near there, nor in other parts of the Sundarbans equally distant from the shores of the Bay and where the surf is equally violent. In the ‘ Proceedings’ of the Society, for August 1870, Mr. Rainey records that these sounds are heard as far north as Faridpur on the. Padda River, about 104 miles from the nearest point of the sea coast at the mouth of the Tetulia river. Mr. Dall also heard of them occurring at Faridpur, like discharges of artillery 3 or 4 miles away and loud enough to wake a person from sleep. Captain Stewart writes that his assistant, Mr. N. T. Davey, con- stantly heard them in District Highli, as well as at Faridpur. Again, in the ‘ Proceedings’ for November 1870, Mr. Pellew records their occurrence on the Saplenga river in the Sundarbuns, about 30 miles from the coast. They were loud enough to wake him up and were heard on 4 or 5 different occasions the same night. The sound came from the south and could not have been marriage guns because the country to the south was all forest. He also mentions that at Puri, when the S. W. Monsoon has lulled, he has seen far to the south a very lofty wave break with a distinct booming noise, a second or two after another nearer, then one opposite to him, and then others towards the north as faras onecouldsee. ‘‘ Hven to one standing on the beach, the noise of these waves (except the nearest) was so like that of guns that we used to remark on the resem- blance.” When the wind was blowing strongly the wave was turned over by the force of it, before it attained its full height; but when there was no wind or a slight breeze from the shore, whilst the swell was still high from the effect of the monsoon, this phenomenon often occurred, the wave rising to an immense height and breaking over a mile or two of beach at one moment. Hecontends also that to a person close by the sound of each wave would appear continuous; but toa person 40 or 50 miles away it would be a boom like that of a gun. He further remarks that the wind blows very obliquely at Puri and would not take the sound so far inland as at Bakarganj. In the same ‘ Proceedings’ Mr. Rainey records that the direction of the sounds appears to travel invariably along the course of the streams that discharge themselves into the Bay, and that when he was living at Khulna, which is at the confluence of the rivers Rupsa and Bhoirab, he noticed that the sounds came from the 8S. H., while when he lived on the other side of the Rupsa, on the west side of it, the noises were heard from the 8. W. Again he lived at a place called Nali—or Schillerganj, on the Baleswar river and to the east of it, when the detonations were Pe ee ee eer a 1888. | Lt.-Col. J. Waterhouse—On the Barisal Guns. 107 heard from the 8S. W. At Schillerganj, whichis distant about a tide from the open sea, the sounds were heard much louder than they were at Khulna, while below that point, as far down the Haranghatta river as a boat could venture out in the S. W. Monsoon, he heard them with even _ still greater precision, but the reports were quite as distinct then from one another as they were elsewhere, and he considers this as not bear- ing out Mr. Pellew’s surf theory. In the paper we have just heard read Babu Gaurdds Bysack records that similar sounds are heard at Tamltik on the Rupnarain river in the estuary of the Hughli, about 50 miles from the sea and only about 36 from Calcutta. Also that Mr. Medlicott had told him of their being heard at Cherra Punji, which is about 200 miles from the coast at the head of the Bay, and that a friend of his had heard them in Bik- rampur near Minshiganj, about the confluence of the Megna and the Padda rivers, some 104 miles from the coast, but never in Dacca. It will be noticed that many of these places where the sounds are undoubtedly heard are at a great distance from the sea-beach, and further than one would imagine that the sound of breaking surf could possibly be heard. The transmission of sound waves is however dependent very much on the conditions under which it takes place, and when these are acoustically favourable they travel to enormous distances. With the exception, perhaps, of Cherra Punji, none of the stations named are outside the distance at which the sound of guns could be heard, and it is probable that the simultaneous breaking of heavy surf rollers two or three miles in length, as mentioned by Mr. Pellew, would be at least as loud if not louder. Under certain atmospheric conditions the noise might be heard at places a great distance from the sea more distinctly than at nearer places. It is said that the cannonade at Waterloo was heard at Dover, and other instances are on record of cannon fired during naval engagements in the Channel being heard in the centre of England. Col. Sconce tells me that he heard the cannonade during the siege of Delhi over 60 miles away, and I may mention that when on duty with my battery at Saugor in Central India, between 1860 and 1864, we heard one day the sound of a salute of guns fired at Jubbulpore, over 80 miles away with intervening hills. I do not recollect hearing it myself, but it was the talk of the mess, and, I believe, was verified by letter. The guns used must have been the ordinary old bronze nine-pounders, which would give a sharper report than larger iron guns. As regards distance, therefore, it seems quite within possibility that the sounds heard at places so far inland could be caused by the enor- mous rollers of the S. W. Monsoon, especially as it appears from the 108 Lt.-Col. J. Waterhouse—On the Barisal Guns. [ Marcn, evidence recorded that the places at which the sounds are best heard are near the courses of streams running up from the sea and from the direc- tion of the courses of the streams, and we know that water is an admir- able conductor of sound. During the rains, too, when the sounds are generally heard, the whole country is like a wet sponge, and the air laden with vapour at a high temperature. At the meeting in August 1870 Mr. Justice Phear, then President of the Society, stated that similar sounds were heard in Cornwall and Devonshire, undoubtedly caused by breaking surf. It is to be regretted that we have not fuller details of the conditions under which these sounds were heard at Cherra Punji and their direc- tion, but it may be remarked that the station lies exactly in the direc- tion of the upper course of the Megna, and its position on the extreme edge of the hills may in some way be connected with the sounds being heard, if it were possible that the sound of distant surf could be carried to such a distance under favourable conditions. It seems also possible that the peculiar configuration of the Gangetic Delta and its position at the head of a deep trumpet-shaped Bay, on one side a dead flat and the other lined with fairly high hills, may favour the transmission of the sound of breaking surf inland. It has been objected by Dr. Mitra that the sounds are not heard in other deltas, such as the Irrawadi, the Mahanadi, the Mississippi, and the Amazon—but in these cases the geographical conditions are quite different. The Delta of the Irrawadi is open on the west. The Deltas of the Sittoung and Salwin reproduce more nearly the condi- tions, but ona much smaller scale. The Mahanadi debouches into a much wider and more open part of the Bay, the Mississippi into an almost landlocked gulf, and the Amazon into the open sea. The second theory, that the sounds are caused by the falling in of river banks, does not appear so far to be supported by any direct evi- dence; the facts recorded by Mr. Beveridge even seem to negative it. It is quite possible, however, that the sounds heard by some observers may be attributed to this cause. As regards the sounds being caused by the explosions of fireworks or bombs on the occasion of marriages, Mr. Pellew states that the Musal- mans of Perojpur and round the Kocha river celebrate their marriages chiefly in September, and always fire off earthen bomb-shells, and it is almost impossible to tell the sounds of these from the Barrisél guns. In another place, however, he says the sound is quite distinct. Sir W.. Herschel heard sounds in Dacca which he easily recognised as bomb- firing or could be attributed to it, unless proof were forthcoming that no bombs had been fired within the possible distance. It is not improbable; ee eS. —-" ee ee ee Se ee eee ae eee 1888. ] Lt.-Col. J. Waterhouse—-On the Baristl Guns. 109 therefore, that in some cases the sounds may be caused in this way, though it is certain that they are not the sole cause, as shown by Capt. Stewart’s and Mr. Beveridge’s statements that the sounds are heard in places where no marriages ever take place and where there are no river banks to fall in, and though the latter further states that his informants at Kuikri Maikri told him that the sounds were quite unconnected with the surf, the bore, or the tide, still these sound-producing agencies existed on or near the spot and might have been instrumental in causing _the sounds, though the islanders may not have recognized it. As regards the fourth theory, that the sounds are due to subterra- nean or subaqueous volcanic or seismic agencies, there is again no direct evidence, but the current opinion that such is the case and the fact recorded by Capt. Stewart of the sounds being like the explosion of a distant torpedo, and always coming from the same direction of the ‘Swash of no-Ground,’ when he heard them at Barisal, Kikri Miakri, and other places in the Sundarbans, seem to point to some submarine source. Mr. Beveridge also suggests their connection with the ‘Swash of no-Ground’ and the statements he received from natives regarding the sounds being heard at Kikri Mukri from the south-west, or direction of Ceylon, agree with Capt. Stewart’s observations. Capt. Stewart had an idea that the ‘Swash’ was the crater of an extinct volcano or submarine volcano and that subterraneous explosions found vent and sound through it, which were heard inland during the south-west monsoon. In the description of the ‘Swash’ by Commander Carpenter, R. N., of the Marine Survey, (Journal, A. S. B., Part II, 1885), there is no allusion to any such volcanic character, but the formation of the depression is shown to be caused by the convergence towards this region of all the channels through the shoals formed off the mouths of all the rivers of the Delta. The result of this tendency of the ebbing water is a number of whirls and eddies in that locality, the position of the ‘Swash’ being central with regard to the Deltaic mouths. This constant agitation of the sea hereabouts prevents the mud settling here during the ebb-tides, as it does on the banks on either side, which have thus never been able to meet, and consequently the depth still remains considerable. It would be most important to have further observations as to the state of the sea during the monsoon over this depression, and whether the contending currents cause such disturbance as would pro- duce explosive sounds loud enough to be heard miles inland. Mr. Rainey has also suggested that the sounds may be of volcanic or subterraneous origin, perhaps the upheaval of land as small islands on the sea-face of the Delta or Sundarbans. He further notes that the sounds travel from the direction of the active volcanic train running 110 Lt.-Col. J. Waterhouse—On the Barisal Guns. { Marcu, from Chittagong along the coast of Arracan and Akyab. The occur- rence of similar sounds at Cherrapunji, as recorded by Mr. Medlicott, would appear more probably connected with volcanic or seismic agency than with any water-borne sounds. That they are commonly produced by volcanic or seismic causes seems improbable, because these would be accompanied by movements of the earth, which could not escape observation, and none of the ob- servers have noted anything of the kind. It only remains to consider the possible connection of the sounds with atmospheric electricity and the thunder-storms especially prevalent in Eastern Bengal at the changes of the seasons and during the S. W. monsoon. Distant thunder frequently sounds exactly like the firing of heavy guns far away, and in the case of such sounds being heard shortly before or after a thunderstorm or when thunder clouds were in the neighbourhood, their connection with the thunder would seem obvious unless otherwise accounted for. Such sounds would excite no special attention and might be heard all over the world. It is important, there- fore to note that none of the persons who have observed the phenome- non have attributed it directly to thunder, and very few have connected it in any way with electrical action. Nothing, moreover, is recorded indicating any special meteorological or physical conditions obtaining in the Delta which would cause distant thunder to be heard in any very peculiar and unusual manner. Capt. Stewart mentions that his Assistant, Mr. N. T. Davey, who had taken a good deal of interest in the question, had heard them in district Hughli and also at Faridpur from the southward, generally when the atmosphere was overloaded with electricity preceding thunder- storms. Mr, Davey attributed the sounds to electrical action in an atmosphere surcharged with moisture, as would be the case along the coast. At Faridpur they are heard from over the enormous bhils in the neighbourhood, which may also explain their being heard at Barisél and other places. Mr. Sarr and Mr. Rainey both report the occurrence of the sounds near Jessore in very close weather after heavy falls of rain or squalls, but say nothing about thunder. T have been unable to find any reference to the theory that the sounds are caused by the bursting of bamboos in the jungles in any of the papers on the subject to which I have had time to refer. This cause would not, however, be peculiar to the Gangetic Delta, as the Barisal guns seem to be, and certainly cannot be the principal cause of the sounds. ‘T'he same remark applies to the falling of trees. In the present very imperfect state of our knowledge regarding this | 1888.] Mr. T. D. La Louche & Mr. Elson—On the Barisél Guns. 111 mysterious phenomenon it is impossible to form any decided opinion as to its cause, though from the evidence it would appear that the balance of probability favours the connection of the sounds in some way with the sea; the sodden state of the soil, the vapour-laden state of the atmosphere and the direction of the wind being exception- ally favourable for the transmission of such sounds, which seem to be heard most frequently at times of the year when the sea is at its highest and the contending influences of the river floods against wind -and tides strongest. At the same time, some of the evidence seems to decidedly negative this theory, and it is quite possible that more causes than one may be active in producing similar sounds. The more or less intimate connection of the sounds with the river system of the Delta also seems to be established, but whence the sounds proceed there > is nothing to show. As will be seen from the foregoing remarks, the question opens up avery wide and interesting field of enquiry, and it would be very desirable that, if possible, further evidence should be obtained on the subject and a system of observations started on both sides of the head of the Bay, from Balasore to Diamond Island, and at as many inland stations as possible in the districts where the sounds are heard. Copies of the former series of queries referred to by Babu Gaurdas Bysack and Mr. Rainey are in existence, and would form a model upon which a new series of enquiries might be drawn up. I would propose, therefore, that the Council should be asked to refer the question to the Physical Science Committee with a view to arrangements being made, in consultation with the officers of the Meteorological Department, for a series of observations being carried out during the coming monsoon. The numerous meteorological stations now existing in this part of the country would afford much greater facilities for such observations than was formerly the case.* The assistance of the Marine authorities should also be sought in making observations of the state of the sea on the sea-face of the Sundarbans and in the neighbourhood of the ‘Swash of no-Ground.’ Mer. T. D. La TovucHst made the following remarks :— I have frequently heard the sounds known as the Barisal guns while camping in the south-western portion of the Garo Hills, in Assam. The * Since the meeting some papers have been discovered containing the replies to the circular issued by the Physical Science Committee in 1871, from Sir W. Herschel, Mr. Westland, Capt. W. J. Stewart, Mr. Rainey and Mr. Sarr. These add considerably to our knowledge of the subject, especially Capt. Stewart’s obser- vations in the Sundarbans, and I have therefore thought it desirable to entirely revise this memorandum and complete it as a note of the facts hitherto recorded on the subject.—J. W. 112 Mr. T. D. La Touche & Mr. Elson—On the Barisil Guns. [Manrcn, sounds may be heard at any time during the day or night, and always appear to come from the direction of the Brahmaputra, which skirts the western end of the hills. They are heard at considerable distances from the river banks, at least 30 miles in a direct line, over hills and valleys covered with dense jungle ; and I hardly think that the fall of a bank of even 30 ft. high could be heard at that distance. They seemed to be most distinct near the village of Mohendraganj at the S. W. corner of the hill area, close to an old bed of the river, but I did not see any banks fall in during the few days I was there. I have heard them only during the cold weather, but I believe they are heard at other times. They can hardly then be caused by heavy surf during the S. W. mon- soon, unless different causes could give rise to the same phenomenon. With regard to the bamboo theory, I have often seen and heard dry bamboo jungle on fire in March and April, when the Garos burn their jhims, and though the bursting of the bamboos makes a great noise, it is more like the rattle of musketry than the firing of heavy guns and cannot be heard at any great distance, especially when hills intervene. It has occurred to me that a possible cause of these sounds may be the daily increase and decrease in depth of the water in the rivers of the delta, caused by the tides. It may be that the rising of the waters places the superficial strata in a state of strain, which is relieved when the tide falls, and the consequent earth movements, though slight, may give rise to these sounds. This is, however, merely a conjecture, and I do not feel inclined to lay much stress upon it until the subject has been more thoroughly investigated. Mr. Huson remarked, with reference to what had been read about the Barisal Guns having been heard at Tumlik on the Ruipnarain river, that it was just possible the explosive noises were due to the falling in of portions of the high right river bank in Hooghly Bight, a spot peculiarly fitted for the production of the phenomenon, situated immediately at the mouth of that river, at its junction with the Hooghly, The rolling action of the joined streams of the two rivers had so cut away and undermined the bank, that the original raised embankment had in some places succumbed, the bank itself being ‘up and down’ like a wall, with some ten or twelve fathoms alongside it at low water: and Mr. Elson had himself often witnessed the crashing sound of the falling in of large masses of earth when anchored near this spot; generally at about low water, when the falling tide left the bank without its sup-_ porting lateral pressure, the bank gave way and fell. And he believed the sound of these landslips might be conveyed for many miles along a dense water medium: and very possibly distance so altered sound waves through this medium that the noise would not be heard as a loud TH TIT Mk Ey LL PLA PROCEEDINGS, As. Soc. BENG., 1888. — — —— 1888.] Babu G. Bysack—Buddhist copper coins § a terra-cotta figure. 113 splash as those near would hear it, but as a sudden short explosion, a _ sharp thud, such as he himself had on two occasions been in a position for proving, and resembling the sound of guns, the dull thud, thud, he had heard actually emanating from out the sea on a calm still day from ~ right alongside the boat in which he was at the time, situated about fifty miles from the north African coast, when the French were fighting at Algiers in 1859; or the same peculiar sharp sound of the 9 o’clock gun of one of Her Majesty’s frigates at Saugor Roads, heard by him ‘some years ago for three successive evenings, at the Pilot station, some thirty-five miles off, and that against a southerly breeze. So that, on the whole, the theory of the sounds in question being caused by the falling in of river banks, and of their being propagated even along crooked river bends, should not, Mr. Elson thought, be entirely ignored nor discarded. 2. Note on some Buddhist copper coins, and a terra-cotta figure.— By Gaurpds Bysack (with a plate). “In April and May 1883, during my stay at Tumlook, I noticed the River Ruipnarayan to cut into and wash away large portions of the bank below that town, leaving exposed specimens of old coins, fragments of pottery, and clay figures imbedded for ages. On the tide retiring, these relics happened to be picked up by the people, especially children. I stopped them from this proceeding on the shore in front of the Sub- divisional bungalow, where the findings were collected for me by my servants. The coins thus got I now send for presentation to the Society. In local opinion, they are said to have been in currency under the old Hindi Rajis, but who they were, and when they flourished, nobody knows. There were first the Buddhist kings, and afterwards the Gangé Vanga princes ruling from Tumlook and Midnapore to Orissa, in the 12th century. I am not aware whether the Society is in possession of any of their coins, in which case they may help to throw light on the determination of the specimens sent by me. “Ag to the terra-cotta utensils and figures secured for me, they are all more or less in a mutilated condition, excepting one, which being in fair preservation, is herewith forwarded for exhibition to the meeting. I wish I had an opportunity to compare it with similar figures found elsewhere, in order to solve the mystery of its representative character. But I have hardly a doubt of its great antiquity and of its being a Buddhist image. As such, it leads me to refer to those times when Tumlook was a great Buddhist emporium on our Delta, known under the name of Tamaralipta, or sea-laved,—answering to Tambapanni (the Taprobane of the Greeks) the earliest Buddhist name for Ceylon. The 114 Dr. Hoernle—On some Ancient Nepalese Cozns. [ Marcu, port flourished when prince Mahendra, the son of Asoka, sailed by the place from Pataliputra, on his religious mission to that Island, From this post, Fa Hian, the Chinese pilgrim, took shipping to return to his country vid Ceylon and the Archipelago, in the 5th century. His countryman Hwen Thang visited it in the 7th century. The ancient Buddhist town and harbour is now about forty miles from the sea, lying buried deep under the silt of the Delta. It would not be amiss for me, I think, to refer the clay figure under consideration to some time in the Buddhistic history of Tumlook. The image strongly resembles the females of Buddhist sculpture. The size makes it a doll, the orna- mentation and attitude give it the air of a dancing-girl. But I believe it is neither of these characters. Most probably it was a household image ; but I am not in a position to offer a pronounced opinion. J would sug- gest a comparison with the Bhuvaneswara temple female figures, and the figures of other Buddhist places, and could form a definite conclusion only by the result of such a comparison.” The PuinotogicaAL SEcRETARY said that the coins sent by the Babi were of a well-known kind of which a large number had been sent to the Society some years ago. There were, however, among those now sent by the Babi, some which were in a particularly good state of preserva- tion. They were round and square coins, bearing a variety of Buddhist emblems on both sides, such as the bodhi tree, elephant, chaitya, swas- tika, and others. They have been already described and figured by Prinsep in his Indian Antiquities (ed. Thomas), Vol..I, pp. 84, 86, plate IV, fig. 8, 22. The terracotta figure (see Plate III) was that of a female fully dressed and profusely bedecked with jewels. It was the finest specimen of this kind of terracotta work that he had ever seen ; but he would not venture to say how old it might be, though, of course, it could not be modern. 3. Note on some Ancient Nepalese Coins.—By Dr. Hournue. Dr. Rudolf Hoernle read the following note on some ancient cop- per coins from Nepal :— ‘“‘ At the May meeting of last year I exhibited some ancient copper coins from Nepal which had been forwarded by Mr. V. Smith (see Pro- ceedings for May 1887, pp. 144-147). I was then under the impression that that was the first public notice of coins of that description. I have lately, however, come across an earlier notice, by Mr. Cecil Bendall, which I regret had quite escaped my memory. It is published in volume XXXVI of the Journal of the German Oriental Society of 1882, and is also referred to on page xxxix of the Introduction to Mr. Bendall’s Catalogue of Buddhist Sanskrit Manuscripts in Cambridge es 1888. ] Dr. Hoernle—On some Ancient Nepalese Coins. 115 (1883). It does not appear, however, so far as I can make ont, that _ coins of this description have ever before been figured, and the plate accompanying my notice of last year will therefore still be welcome to numismatists. Moreover, among the coins noticed by Mr. Bendall, _ there do not appear to have been any like Mr. Smith’s No. I. On the other hand, in Mr. Smith’s collection there was none like Mr. Bendall’s No. I. Mr. Smith’s Nos. II appear to be identical with Mr. Bendall’s Nos. 6 and 10, his Nos. III with Mr Bendall’s Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, and his Nos. IV with Mr. Bendall’s Nos. 7, 8, 9, 10, 12. “The reverse legend of Nos. II, Mr. Bendall reads as ard @f% kamam dehi (on'his No. 1), but, as will be seen from the facsimiles, the correct reading is undoubtedly @imee} kdémadeh?’. The animal on the obverse Mr. C. Bendall, I observe, also takes to be a winged lion. The legend on the obverse Mr. Bendall reads Gwae amsuvarma. I read it Mera srésudharma or AIA srésuvarma. I think Mr. Bendall’s reading is substantially correct, only it should be Wwaa Library. 119 theilung, Band XCIII Heft 3—5; Band XCIV Heft 1—5; Band XCV Heft 1—2; I1I Abtheilung Band XCII Heft 2—5; Band X CITI Heft 1—5, Band XCIV Heft 1—2. — . (Philosophisech—Historische classe) Band OXxII Heft ap. Band CXIII Heft 1—2; Band CXIV Heft I. BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS presented by the Authors, Translators, Sc. ‘Boutiiner, Orro. Sanskrit-Worterbuch in Kiirzerer Fassung. Theil VII, Lieferung 1. 4to. St. Petersburg, 1887. Tyver, N. CurpamBaraM. The Brihat Jataka of Varaha Mihira, trans- lated into English, 8vo. 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Paris, L’ Academie des Sciences,—Comptes Rendus des Séances, Tome CV, Nos. 18—23. Annals de Chimie et de Physique,—Tome XII, (6th serie) Novembre—Decembre, 1887. Paris. Journal des Savants,—Octobre et Novembre, 1887. Revue Critique,—Tome XXIV, Nos. 44—50. Revue Scientifique, Tome XL, Nos. 19—27, 1887, Tome XLI Nos. 1—5, 1888. Books PURCHASED. Roscoz and ScaortemMER, Proressors. Treatise on Chemistry, Vol. III. Organic Chemistry, Part IV. 8vo. London, 1888. Binet, A. and Fu’rs’, C. Animal Magnetism. (The International Scientific Series, Vol. LX.) 12mo. London, 1887. ~ = rw intensities - PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, FoR APRIL, 1888, The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was held on Wednesday the 4th April 1888 at 9-15 p. m. Linvr.-Cou. J. WaterHousE, President, in the Chair. The following members were present: H. Beveridge, Hsq., Babu Gaurdas Bysack, Dr. Hoernle, A. Hoge, Esq., Babu Asutosh Mukhopadhyay, T. Munro, Esq., L. de Nicéville, Hsq., R. D. Oldham, Hsq., H. M. Percival, Esq. The Hon. Dr. Ma- hendralal Sarkar, W. L. Sclater, Hsq., Dr. Scully, Pandit Haraprasid Shastri, D. Waldie, Esq. The Minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. Fifteen presentations were announced, details of which are given in the Library List appended. The following gentlemen proposed and seconded at the last meet- ing, were ballotted for and elected Ordinary Members : Babu Haridas Shastri. Maulyi Ahmad. The following gentleman is a candidate for election at the next - meeting: | Nawab Mir Mahomed Ali, proposed by Babu Gaurdas Bysack, ~ seconded by Lieut.-Col J. Waterhouse. The following gentleman has intimated his wish to withdraw from the Society : J. G. Delmerick, Hsq. 124 W. L. Sclater—Remarks on Paradoxurus. [ APRIL, The Prusipenr announced that the Council had sanctioned: (1) as a special case, the exemption of Babu Gaurdds Bysack, who has com-’ pounded for his subscription as a non-Resident Member, from payment of further subscription as a Resident Member, in consideration of his having been an old officer of the Society and a member of very long standing: (2) the purchase of a collection of old coins for Rs. 250 offered by Mr. Delmerick, some of them being very rare. The Presipent also announced that the Council, on the application of the Finance Committee, had authorized the sale of Government Promissory Notes of the nominal value of Rs. 2,000. The Prestpent said that Members of the Society would be glad to hear that on the invitation of Commander Carpenter, R. N., com- manding the Indian Marine Survey vessel “ Investigator,” the Trustees of the Indian Museum had given leave to Mr. Wood-Mason, the Superintendent of the Museum, and Natural History Secretary of the Society, to go on acruise as Naturalist to do some deep sea dredging in the Indian Ocean. It was an opportunity which had been looked forward to by Mr. Wood-Mason, and there was no doubt he would take the fullest advantage of it to the benefit of the Museum and of the Society. The GENERAL SEecRETARY exhibited an old portrait in oil colours found in the Public Library at Allahabad sent by the Hon. Mr. Quinton, for the purpose of identification, if possible, and stated that it appeared from inscriptions in English and Persian faintly traceable on the Canvas at the top that the portrait was intended for a Mr. G. T. Dankin or Donkin, but that nothing could be ascertained from old directories or lists of civilians about any gentleman of that name. Mr. W. L. Scuarer exhibited some specimens of the Mammalia of the genus Paradoxurus, and made the following remarks thereon : The first specimen I have to exhibit was recently presented to the Indian Museum by Mr. James Ross of Ootacamund and was shot near that place; at first it seemed to be nothing but the common Palm cat of India (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus or musanga) but on examining the skull it was at once manifest that it was a species recently de- scribed by Mr. Blanford (P. Z. S. 1885, p. 613) and named by him Paradoxurus jerdont. The skull of Paradoxurus jerdoni can be at once distinguished from that of all other species of Paradoxurus by the length of the anterior palatal foramina, which extend back to the level of a line drawn across the palate behind the anterior pair of premolars. 1888. ] W. L. Sclater—Remarks on Paradoxurus. 125 The fur of the specimen exhibited has the same grizzled appear- ance mentioned by Mr. Blanford in his description, due to a subterminal band of gray on each individual hair, but it wants the white tip to the tail which is such a conspicuous feature in the coloured plate of Mr. Blanford’s memoir on Paradoxurus (P. Z. S. 1885, pl. XLIX). Mr. Gray in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 1864 p- 538, described a new species of Paradozurus from a single skull in the British Museum; this skull differed from all other Paradoxwrus skulls in the very much larger size of the teeth, especially of the 3rd upper premolar, which is provided with a distinct cingulum and a rudi- mentary inner lobe, the skull had no skin attached to it, and the locality was unknown. In examining the specimens of Paradoxurus in the collection of the Indian Museum, I found three skulls which were undoubtedly skulls of Paradoxurus macrodus of Gray; the skulls in question had been extracted from a series of three mounted specimens from Malacca pre- sented to the Asiatic Society in 1843 by Messrs. Frith and Lindstedt. I have carefully examined the stuffed specimens to which the above skulls belong, and can see absolutely no character by which they could be distinguished from the ordinary Paradozurus hermaphroditus or musanga as it occurs near Calcutta. However the species can easily be distin- guished from P. musanga by its skull, and will therefore, stand, and the addition to our knowledge is the locality whence it comes, 7. e., Malacca. The third point is the question of the specific identity of the Burmese and Indian forms of Palm cat. Blyth and Jerdon only allow one species, 2. e., Paradoxurus musanga, but Mr. Blanford in his paper quoted above, has separated P. musanga into two species (a) P. herma- phroditus from Burma, Siam, Malayia, Lower Bengal, Nepal and Sikkim distinguished by its striped back, grey frontal band, even fur and by certain tooth measurements. (b) P. niger from the peninsular of India and Ceylon, distinguished by its unstriped back, ragged fur» absence of frontal bend and by the tooth characters. After examining the specimens in the Museum here I have come to the conclusion that it is quite impossible to separate the two forms; there are in the Museum specimens from Rangoon resembling P. niger in having an unstriped back; there are specimens having the teeth of P. niger combined with the striped back of P. hermaphroditus, in fact not one of the characters enumerated by Mr. Blanford are constant, as indeed he himself says, no one can have no choice but in following the footsteps of Blyth and Jerdon in regarding the two forms of Palm cat as merely varieties of one species Paradoxurus hermaphroditus, Pall. (= P. musanga, Raffles.) 126 Philological Secretary—Report on Coins. [ APRIL, The PuritoLoetcaL SeckeTary read a report on a find of 538 Trea- sure Trove coins supposed to be copper, forwarded by the Deputy Com- missioner of Shahpur, with his No. 1886, dated 16th October 1886. 1. I much regret the delay in submitting this report. The coins were originally received while I was on furlough in Europe. They were handed over to my locum-tenens, who, on account of pressure of official work, was unable to attend to them till some time after my return, when they were made over to me. It was only then that they could be examined for the first time, and identified and classified. 2. The original letter of the Deputy Commissioner, No. 1886, dated 16th October 1886, advised the despatch of 549 coins. My locum-tenens, on making the coins over to me, stated, however, that on counting them, he found there were 534 coins. On recounting them, when made over to me, I found there were 538 coins, as detailed below. 3. I am unable to specify the exact locality where the coins were found. The original letter of the Deputy Commissioner above re- ferred to, which presumably contained information on the subject, appears to have been lost during my absence on furlough. A copy of it probably exists in the Deputy Commissioner’s office, and may be referred to, if it be considered necessary. 4. The coims were supposed to be copper. On cleaning, however, selected specimens, I find that they are of more or less impure silver, 1. €., Silver and copper mixed. Most of them are in a moderately good state of preservation. No. of specimens. 5. They belong to the following rulers : No. 1. Muo’1zzvu-p-pin, Munammap BIN Sd, the con- queror of India, A. D. 1193—1205, type: Mahamad Same, as in Chronicles, p. 15, No. 10; Bull and Horseman, with Nagari legends 371 No. 2. Dirro; type as in Chronicles, p. 15, No. 5; Obverse: horseman with Nagari legend; Re- verse: Arabic inscription ........ BRIS Fc 3 No. 3. Mauuup Bin Gutiydsvu-p-pin, Bree. D. 1200 ; type as in Ohronicles,-p. 32, No. 25 sssscacseces 1 No. 4. TAsu-p-pin Inpvz, about A. D. 1210; type as in Chronicles, p. 31, No. 24 . ra 2 No.5. Sri CudAnapa Deva, Ais. of aie hut | A. DO UZLSs a. Type Samasorala Deva, as in Chronicles, Dis OF ENO; AO Sean Wahiawa sa eatediecedcene AS PLATE lV. Proceedings, As. Soc., Bengal, 1888. -* ¥ a — .3 mori ’ >, bm : 4 > a Obv. SOME NEW BACTRIAN AND GUPTA COINS. e, Survey of India Offices, Calcutta, June 1888. typ Photo-Collc 1888. ] Dr. Hoernle—On new Bactrian and Gupta Coins. No. 6. No. 7. No. 8. No. 9. No. 10. No. 1l. 127 No. of specimens. 6. Type Sdémanta Deva, as in Chronicles, p- 70, No. 39.., ie Sri Pritavi RAsk Deva, Rajé af Dehli, “abssei 1190 A. D. a. Type Prithyd Réjd, as in Chronicles, p. 64, No. 38.. otehw b. Type Pithimba Bowed as in Clmeniilon PrI0, Nore wires c. Type Pipala Rajé Deva, as in in Chronicles p 59;-No. 3°. Lane Srf Baie 2 Deva, Raji of Aries ee A. D. 1160; type as in Chronicles, p. 63, No. 34s. Fevitlivelarstaceteath eh Pectiat sot Sri Mamanmscbris aa Raja Mahoba, Line A. D. 1150; type as in Ohronicles, p. 62, No. 34., PEROT ERAT vices tavietse S’Ri Nd nape hii Deva, Raj of Dehli, put A. D. 1060; type as in re De Od, No. 32.. “ora bth S’Ri Samevestiawinses. Daee Bais ar! Malibte about A.D. 1090; type as in Chronicles, p. 62, 1 0 22a ar Hi eta ean en eRe a NAsrru-p-pin Kupdcuan, Sultan of Sind, about A. D. 1210; type S’ri Kubdéché Suritdn, as in Chronicles, p. 100, No. 86 eee 57 19 22 2 Total, ... 538 The following paper was read— Notes on some new Bactrian and Gupta coins—By Dr. A. F. Rupour Horrnte. (With a plate.) Among the Bactrian coins which the Society lately purchased from Mr. J. G. Delmerick there are two of considerable interest. No. 1. One is a new variety of a silver hemidrachm of Strato L., (see Plate IV, fig. 1). It reads as follows :— Obv. BASIAEOS FOTHPOS STPATONOS, with king’s head to right, with diadem. fev. (in Arian Pali characters) Maharajasa tradatasa dhra- mikasa Thratasa, with Pallas standing with thunder- bolt and shield to left; on the left side the monogram, No. 22, on Pl. XI, c, in Princep’s Indian Antiquities (ed. Thomas), Vol. II. 128 Dr. Hoernle—On new Bactrian and Gupta Coins. [ APRIL, No hemidrachm of Strato I., exactly like this, has hitherto been known. There is, as I am informed by Mr. R. Stuart Poole, none like it in the British Museum. The usual reverse legend of the silver coins of Strato has prachachhasa (the Prakrit for érigavots) in the place of dhramikasa (the Prakrit for dixaiov), thus: Maharajasa prachachhasa tradatasa Thratasa. The obverse legend usually reads Baotdéws éxipavots gwTHpos Stpatwvos ; but occasionally, as on the present coin, érupavovs is omitted. There are square copper coins of Strato I., which have the same legend with dhramikasa, as this new silver coin; but their obverse reads BacwWéws curypos Suxaiov Stpdtwvos, being an exact translation of the Pali. The legend with dhramikasa occurs also on the reverse of square copper coins of Strato and his wife Agathokleia, the obverse of which reads Baowlicons Beorpdrov ’AyafoxAcias, (see Sallet’s Nachfolger Alexanders des Grossen, pp. 127, 128; Ind. Ant., vol. II, p. 196, and the British Museum Catalogue). Unfortunately, on the present coin, the word dhramikasa is not quite as distinct as one could wish; the two middle letters mi and ka are much worn; but the first letter dhra and the last latter sa are sufficiently clear to justify the identification of the word as dhramikasa. In any case it is impossible to read it a prachachhasa ; for that word, when it occurs on Strato’s coins, occupies a different position in the legend, before tradatasa, not after it. The name of the king I read as Thratasa, not (as is usually done) Stratasa. The fact is that the value of the first letter has hitherto always been wrongly assumed to be str, for no other reason (as it would seem) than because the corresponding place in the Greek name is occupied by the letters str. But the compound s¢ or str was always unpronounceable to the vernacular tongues of India; and it is, therefore, a priort unlikely that there would be a graphic symbol to indicate a combination of sounds which did not exist in the language. In the North-Western Prakrit (as in all Prakrits) the conjunct st was re- placed by th, and the conjunct str by thr. Hence the Greek name Strato became Thrata (ya) in the mouth of the natives of North-Wes- tern India. Similarly the Greek name Hippostratos became Hippa- thrata (feaya), and is thus to be read, when it occurs on bilingual Bactrian coins. But the true value of the Arian Pali character + is directly and clearly proved by its occurrence in genuine Prakrit words in which it indubitably represents the dental aspirate th (4). Numerous instances occur in the Shahbazgarhi inscription of Asoka. Thus, in line 23, letters 17 and 18, we have nathi ‘itis not’ (Skr. ndsti); in line 24, letters 26 and 27, we have tatha ‘there’ (Skr. tatra). As the same words occur in the Khalsi inscription, where they are written in Indian Pali characters, there can be no doubt regarding the true value of the Arian Pali equivalents. 1888. ] Dr. Hoernle—On new Bactrian and Gupta Coins. 129 It may be useful to record here the normal form of the surd cerebrals and dentals, regarding which some uncertainty still seems to prevail. Theyare: + =S=f;1=8=th; 7=aA=t; FH y= th. Occasionally variations of these normal forms occur, in which the cross line is not drawn straight or not continuous; thus we may have + or F or T for + = 2Zf; or 4 forgq & th, or ¥ or + or ¥ for> g th. These are mere inaccuracies (sometimes owing to the nature of the surface on which the letters are incised), which cannot mislead when the normal form is known. No. 2. The second Bactrian silver coin is a hemidrachm of Diomedes (see Plate IV, fig. 2). It is identical, or very nearly identical, with one in the British Museum collection, but, as will be seen by a reference to fig. ll, of Plate VIII, in Professor Gardner’s catalogue (p. 31), the Prakrit inscription on the reverse is not nearly as complete as on the Society’s newly acquired specimen. Sallet (ib., p. 114) mentions another as an “ unicum” inan “English private collection,” which, however, is perhaps the identical one of the British Museum. The Society’s specimen reads as follows : Obv. BASIABOS SQOTHPOS AIOMHAOY, with king’s head, helmeted, to right. Rev. (in Arian Pali characters) Ma|harajasa| tradatasa Diyomidasa, with Dioscuri standing, lance in hand, to front; on the left side the monogram, No. 20 a or b, on Pl. XI, c in Ind. Ant., vol. IT. The name seems to read distinctly Diyomidasa or Diyumidasa; the left leg of the letter y has a distinct curve attached to it, usually indi- cative of the vowel w or o. No. 3. About two months ago I received from Mr. Henry S. Boys, B. C. S., in Lucknow, for decipherment, a gold Gupta coin, which he had obtained at Badauli, about 25 miles from Ajudhya. It is of _ aquite new type, and apparently unique. It is of somewhat coarse work- manship, though not more so than many other Gupta coins of well- known types, and is undoubtedly genuine, as it was bought of a common man at a little above its intrinsic value. Weight 112,5 grains. See Plate IV, fig. 3. Obv. King standing in the same posture as on Samudra Gupta’s coins of the “ Javelin” type, (see Mr. Smith’s Catalogue, J. A. S. B., vol. LIII, Part I, p. 172). King standing to left, dressed in be-jewelled close-fitting tail coat, trowsers, and tall pointed cap, left arm resting on javelin, right hand casting incense on a small altar in left field; behind right arm the bird standard; corona round the head. Under the king’s left arm, within the field, ¥4*4 chandra ; along the left hand 130 Dr. Hoernle—On new Bactrian and Gupta Coins. [ApriL, margin Yo He Hae para. ma. bhaga; along the right hand margin WNT AH pravirak Gupta. The obverse is imperfectly struck ; it looks as if the coin slipped on the die; most of the letters appear double, slightly overlapping each other; still they are all tolerably distinct, except WA gupta, the Y pof which is wanting. The marginal legend consists of abbreviated words, which I take to be in full paramabhagavata- pravirah Chandra Guptah, i.e., “The most devoted worshipper of Vishnu, the mighty Chandra Gupta.” The circle is a well-known mark of abbreviation ; its being used three times would seem to indicate three abbreviated words; but the first circle may be redundant; otherwise the phrase might be parama-mahd-(or mahad-) bhagavata. Rev. King and queen sitting on a couch, facing each other. The king sits on the right side, right leg drawn up on the couch, and his right hand holding up and apparently showing to the queen a cup, shaped somewhat like a modern shallow champagne glass. The queen sits on the left-side margin of the couch, with both legs down, supporting herself with the right arm on the corner of the couch, and her left arm a-kimbo. Both figures are dressed in lower garments (dhoties), the king in short ones reaching to above the knees, the queen in long ones coming down to below the knees. Both wear jewels in their hair and ears, also bracelets, the king also a necklace, and the queen anklets. _ There is a sort of corona round the king’s head. The scene seems to represent a drinking bout, similar to what may be seen on old Buddhist sculptures. On the margin, behind the queen, 4} fa sri vi, similarly behind the king, wa: kramah; that is, a} fama: S’rd Vikramah. It is doubtful whether this coin should be attributed to Chandra Gupta I. or Chandra Gupta II. The only point, however, which really seems to favour the attribution to the latter king, is the reverse lerend S'ri Vikramah, which has hitherto been only found on coins of that king. The words paramabhagavata (if correct) have also been met with on coins of the same king (see J. A. S. B., vol. LIII, pp. 180, 182). But another, and more striking peculiarity points rather to an older date for the coin, and to Chandra Gupta I. as its issuer. The king’s figure on the obverse has a decidedly antique look. It closely resembles that on the early coins of the so-called Ghatotkacha, and of Chandra Gupta I. (ibid., plate II, figs. 1—4). The reverse device of ‘ King and Queen’, too, has hitherto been only observed on coins of Chandra Gupta I. and of Skanda Gupta (see ibid., pp. 129, 171). If the coin should be attributed to Chandra Gupta II., we must assume that, on some of his coins, he reverted to the more antique obverse device of his early predecessors. On the other hand, as hitherto only one type of coin (King and Queen) of Chandra Gupta I. has been discovered, it is impossible 1808. ] Dr. Hoernle—On new Bactrian and Gupta Coins. 131 to assert, that he might not have used the legend S’ré Vikramah on other coins. On the whole the ascription to Chandra Gupta I. appears to me the more probable one. . No. 4. The next is a gold coin of Chandra Gupta L, forwarded to me by Mr. H. Rivett-Carnac. It belongs to Mr. Sykes, barrister-at- law at Lucknow, and was acquired by him either at Lucknow or Fyzabad. This is an undoubted coin of Chandra Gupta I., of the well- known type of “ King and Queen” (ibid., p.171). It is only published here (see Plate IV, fig. 4), because, so far as I am aware, no specimen with the lion turned to the left, has been hitherto published. The usual reverse has the lion turned to the right (see ibid., plate II, fig. 2). _ The legends on this coin, unfortunately, are very imperfect; but RA Chandra Gupta on the obverse is clear. The action of the king appears to me that of offering the queen something to drink (or to eat) ; the idea of the device, therefore, being similar to that on the reverse of the preceding coin. Weight 112°5 grains. No. 5. The next is a gold coin of Chandra Gupta II. ; also for- warded by Mr. Rivett-Carnac, and belonging to Mr. Sykes, obtained at Lucknow or Fyzabad. See Plate IV, fig. 5. It is a new variety of the _ Horseman to left” type, combining the mounted figure of the king Of that type with the legend of the “‘ Lancer” or “ Horseman to right” type; (see zbid., pp. 182, 183). The legend on the obverse is Y«auTaqa [at Sat a parama-bhigavata-[ $ri-Chandragu|ptah, t. e., ‘The most devoted worshipper of Vishnu Sri Chandragupta.’ The reverse has the usual female figure, dressed in lower garments and seated on a morhé or Indian wickerstool, with fillet in right and lotus in left hand. Le- - gend, with a straight line of dots underneath, yfsrafama:, 7. e., ‘he of ‘unyanquished might,’ or ‘the unconquered hero.’ Weight 118°25 grains. No. 6. This is a gold coin belonging to Mr. H. Rivett-Carnac. Its find-place is not specified further than ‘‘ somewhere between Benares and Fyzabad.” It is a coin of Kumara Gupta, of the ‘“ Horseman to left ” type, (see zbid., p. 193). I publish it, because it has the obverse legend exceptionally well preserved, and may help to establish its correct reading. See Plate IV, fig.5. Itruns thus: + + a¥ p> + 4p*p, = 0, 166 A. Mukhopddhyay—On Monge’s Differential Bquation. [Juty, which is a geometrical relation, being an equation between the volumes contained by certain lines belonging to the curve. For the parabola, the equation becomes and this can be written 9p® + 4p,? — 3pp, = 0 which is again a geometrical relation involving the rectangles contained by certain lines belonging to the figure. These are probably the best geometrical interpretations that can be given. The above equation to parabolas can be written B® -3), -8 =a (¢ )+e = which leads at once to the ordinary formula 2a sinéy” Similarly the general equation to the conic can be written dé a —i Gastar een which leads to the ordinary value for p, viz., 1 (a cos*y + 6? sin*y)3 p? mg abt ? e= or, De Sa) if the constants of integration be suitably determined.” Babu Asutosh Mukhopadhyay then made the following remarks : “JT have thought it proper to lay before the Society Prof. Stuart’s interesting remarks on the Mongian Hquation, as I believe they are valuable and ought to be preserved: it is rather unfortunate that he cannot give the name of the author of the paper to which he refers, nor that of the Journal in which it appeared. The only paper on the sub- ject which I can find has anything to do with Prof. Stuart’s remarks is Transon’s Recherches sur la Courbure des Lignes et des Surfaces (Liou- ville, Journal de Mathematiques, Ser. I, t. VI, 1841, pp. 191—208) ; the equation to all parabolas 9p* + 47 — 3pp, = 0 which Prof. Stuart gives, is on page 197; but Iam not quite sure that Transon’s paper is the one to which Prof. Stuart refers; his remarks refer to my first paper on the Mongian Equation (Journal, A. S. B. 1887, Vol. LVI, Part II, pp. 134—145), and, when he wrote his letter, he was, ~~ = eee es a 1888. ] Library. 167 of course, not aware of my second paper which was read at the last meeting of the Society; I need not, however, refer further to the re- sults of Transon’s paper, as by analysing and extending them, I have . already given the geometric interpretation of the differential equations of all parabolas and conics. (See pp. 156—158 ante.) “* Since Prof. Stuart attempts to give a new geometrical interpreta- tion of the Mongian Equation, he appears to accept implicitly my view that Prof. Sylvester’s interpretation is out of mark as failing to give a property true of all conics. Prof. Stuart’s interpretation certainly satisfies the tests which every true geometrical interpretation ought to satisfy, viz., it gives a property which is adequately represented by the differential equation to be interpreted, and it leads to a geometrical quantity which vanishes at every point of every conic; and, the only objection which can possibly be taken to this interpretation is, that the quantity which is analytically represented by P?P3 — OP; Py Pg + = p> + 4p%p, = 0 and which involves the radius of curvature at any point of a conic and the radii of curvature at the corresponding points of its first, second and third evolutes, does not admit of being expressed in language; in fact, we do not know how to construct geometrically the solid, the vanishing of the volume of which is the geometrical meaning of the equation given above; the interpretation, in fact, is only semi-geo- metrical.” The following paper was read : Ruins and Antiquities of Rémpadl.— By Asutosn Gupta, Hsq., C.S. 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The following gentlemen, duly proposed and seconded at the last meeting of the Society, were ballotted for and elected Ordinary Members: Nawab Syud Mahomed Zainool Abideen Khan Bahadur Feroze J ung (Niz4mut Family), Murshedabad. Babu Rajanikanta Gupta. The following gentlemen are candidates for election at the next meeting :— Babu Kali Prasanna Sen Gupta, proposed by Babu Krishna Gopal Bhakta, seconded by Babu Haricharan Basu. Babu Upendra Chandra Rai, Zamindar of Nardail, Zillah Jessore, proposed by Nawab Abdul Latif Bahadur, seconded by the Hon. Dr, Mahendralal Sarkar. 174 EK. C. Cotes—On Indian Sericulture. [ Ave. The PRESIDENT announced that intimation had been received from the Secretary of State that Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Kmpress of India, had been pleased to accept the Address presented by the Asiatic Society of Bengal on the occasion of Her Majesty’s Jubilee. The Srcretary read the following notice from the American Meteor- ological Journal Company dated June 1888, offering prizes for the best essays on Tornadoes. Prize Strupies or TORNADOES. The American Meteorological Journal, desiring to direct the atten- tion of students to tornadoes, in hopes that valuable results may be obtained, offers the following prizes : For the best original essay on tornadoes or description of a tornado, $200 will be given. For the second best, $50. And among those worthy of special mention $50 will be divided. The essays must be sent to either of the editors, Professor Harring- ton, Astronomical Observatory, Ann Arbor, Michigan, or A. Lawrence Rotech, Blue Hill, Meteorological Observatory, Readville, Mass., U.S. A., before the first day of July, 1889. They must be signed by a nom de plume, and be accompanied by a sealed envelope addressed with same nom de plume and enclosing the real name and address of the author. Three independent and capable judges will be selected to award the prizes; and the papers receiving them will be the property of the Journal offering the prizes. A circular giving fuller details can be obtained by application to Professor Harrington. Mr. Corrs exhibited a zoological collection illustrative of Indian Serieulture, and made the following remarks thereon : Fourteen collections, illustrative of Indian silk producing Moths, have been prepared in the Indian Museum for distribution to various Museums and other institutions in Europe and India. The species illustrated are the ones which actually spin the various kinds of silk that are produced commercially in India, (that is to say, the different mulberry silk worms, the Tusser, the Hri, and the Muga,) and also several wild species, which are not used at present for commercial purposes but which, nevertheless, all spin silk, in some cases of excellent quality. These collections do not by any means contain representatives of all the silk producing moths of India, but they contain all the more im- portant species, and are as complete as the material available allowed. In cases where it was possible to do so, specimens have been given 1888. ] KE. C. Cotes—Cn Indian Sericulture. 175 illustrative of all the different stages of the silk insects from the egg to the moths, also of their cocoons and raw silk. The following are the species contained in the collections : BomByx MORI. The “ Annual”’ or ‘* Cashmere” worm. The common mulberry feeding silk worm, reared in Japan, China, Bokara, Cashmere, Afghanistan, Persia, South Russia, Turkey, Hgypt, Algeria, Italy, France, Spain, United States of America, and to a small extent in the Punjab, and North Western Provinces of India. BoMBYX FORTUNATUS. “ Desi” or “ Chota Polo.” A small mulberry feeding multivoltine silk worm, largely reared in Bengal, where it yields the principal cold weather crop of cocoons. BoMByYx CR@SI. “ Nistry”’ or “ Madrassee,” A small multivoltine mulberry feeding silk worm, largely reared in Bengal, where it yields the principal hot season crop of cocoons. BomBYX ARRAGANENSIS. ‘—————_— —_——__—, ——————. Brahmanda Purana. 2 volumes, Fep. —, Kurma Purana. Fecp. ——_—_———. —————. Markandeya Purana. Fep. —, -—— Padma Purana. (Swarga Khanda). Fcp. ee —— ee ———._ (Patiila Khanda). Fep. SHYAMALDAS, Kavi Rasa. Rules for the marriage expense of the Rajputs of Rajputana, with speeches of Kabiraj Shyamaldas and others. Fep. Oodeypore, 1888. Sinna, R4sA Lacuman. Sakuntala, or the lost ring; a Sanskrit drama of Kalidas, translated into Hindi Prose and Verse, with notes. Ato, Benares, 1888. Svyopapa, Dr. Ein kurzer Besuch auf den Nicobaren. Von der Reise S. M. Corvette “Aurora” nach Ostasien. 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Akademische Festrede zur Feier des Stiftungsfestes der Grossherzoglich Hessischen Ludewigs-Universitit am 2 Juli 1888. Ueber Waldschutz und Schutzwald. Von Dr. Richard Hek, ordentlichem Professor der Forstwissenschaft. Ato. Giessen, 1888. Dissertatio Inauguralis quam ad summos in Philosophia Honores ab amplissimo Philosophorum ordine Gissensi rite impetrandos De Comparationibus Translationibusque ex agricolarum pastorumque rebus ab Aeschylo et Euripide desumptis. Scripsit Hermannus Brieg- leb, Pfeddershemiensis. 8vo. Giessen, 1888. De Genere Dicendi Xenophonteo deque prioris hellenicorum partis con- dicione Quaestiones Selectae. Scripsit Fredericus Otto Wissmann, Darmstadiensis. 8vo. Giessen, 1888. Sophocles quemadmodum sui temporis res publicas ad describendam heroicam aetatem adhibuerit. Scripsit Rudolfus Becker, Gernshe- miensis. S8vo. Giessen, 1888. Inaugural-Dissertation zur Hrlangung der Doctorwiirde der Hohen Medicinischen Facultit der Grossherzoglich Hessischen Ludewigs- Universitat, Giessen a. ee 1888. ] Inbrary. 215 Beitrag zur Lehre von den Gefiss contrahirenden Mitteln. Von Wilhelm Streng, approbirtem Arzt aus Giessen. 8vo. Giessen, 1888. Beitrage zur Casuistik der Embolie bei offenem Foramen ovale. Von Heinrich Poths, approbirtem Arzt aus Echzell. 8vo. Giessen, 1887. Das Verhaltexn des Magensaftes bei Carcinom. Von Reinhard Koch. Svo. Giessen, 1887. Revision der Lehre von der reflectorischen Speichelsecretion. Von Rudolf Buff, approbirtem Arzt aus Giessen. 4to. Giessen, 1887. Ueber Amylenhydrat als Schlafmittel. Von Georg Avellis, approb. Arzt aus Forst i. d. Lausitz. 8vo. Giessen, 1888. Ueber die Verwerthung des Salols in der Diagnostik der Magenkrank- heiten. Von Fritz Kullmann, approb. Arzt aus Darmstadt. 8vo. Giessen, 1888. Ueber ein grosses Teratom des Ovarium mit peritonealer Dissemination. Von Salomon Lazarus, approb. Arzt aus Rogasen. 8vo. Giessen, 1888. Ueber Lyssa Humana. Von Ludwig Kesting, pract. Arzt. zu Courl. 8vo. Giessen, 1888. Ueber Verletzungen des n. opticus innerhalb der Orbita. Von Fritz Schhephake, approb. Arzt aus Giessen. 8vo. Giessen, 1888. Zur Aetiologie und Therapie der Scrofulose. Von Frederik Willem van Haeften, aus Utrecht. S8vo. Giessen, 1887. Zur Untersuchungsmethode tiber die Topographie der motorischen In- nervationswege im Rtickenmark der Saugethiere, mit besonderer Riicksicht auf das Halsmark des Kaninchens. Von Emil Steffahny, approbirtem Arzt. 4to. Giessen, 1887. Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doctorwiirde bei der Philo- sophischen Facultaét der Ludewigs-Universitat zu Giessen ——- Betrachtungen tiber die Schutzvorrichtungen der Thiere. Von Adalbert Seitz, in Giessen. 8vo. Jena, 1887. Covarianten eines ebenen Systems, bestehend aus einem Kegelschnitt und mehreren Geraden. Von Karl Ernst Jacob Keil, aus Hohen-Siilzen. 4to. 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Ueber den Hinfluss des Druckes auf den Brechungsexponenten des Wassers, fiir Natriumlicht. Von L Zehnder. 8vo. Giessen, 1887. Ueber die Sprache und den Dialekt des Joufrois. Von Jacob Dingeldey. Svo. Darmstadt, 1888. Ueber eine neue Methode zur Darstellung von aromatischen Succinamin- siuren und Succinimiden. Von Francis Salsbury Harp. F.C. 8S. 8vo. Bonn, 1888. Ueber einige die binaéren und terniren Formen betreffende Aufgaben. Von Emil Daub, aus Darmstadt. 4to. Darmstadt, 1888. Ueber krystallisirte Halogenquecksilbersalze. Von W. Sievers, aus Salzgitter. 8vo. Giessen, 1888. Ueber Nichtvorkommen der Hypogaasaure im Erdunuss6l. Von L. Schon. aus Lollar. S8vo. Giessen, 1888. Untersuchungen iiber die niedersiedenden Producte, welche bei der trockenen Destillation von schweren sachsischen Braunkohlentheer6- len unter einem Druck von drei bis sechs Atmosphiaren erhalten werden. Von Carl Schneider, aus Lich. 8vo. Grinberg, 1888. 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London, 1888. 1888. | Inbrary. 219 Return of all Loans raised in India, under the provisions of any Acts of Parliament, chargeable on the Revenues of India, outstanding at the commencement of the Half-year ended on the 3lst March 1888, with the rates of Interest and total amount payable thereon, and the Loans outstanding at the close of the Half-year. Fep. London, 1888, . Returns relating to the Trade of India and China from 1871-1887. Fcp. London, 1888. Samaveda Samhita, Nos. 38—44. 8vo. Calcutta, 1888. GOVERNMENT OF Inp1A, Home Department. Report on the Administration of the Meteorological Department of the Government of India in 1887-88. Fep. Calcutta, 1888. GOVERNMENT oF Inpr1a, Muteor. Dnpr. Progress Reports of Dr. Hultzsch, Hpigraphist, on the Archeological Survey of Southern India from 1st February to 30th April, and May and June 1888. Fep. Madras, 1888. Progress Reports of A. Rea, M. R. A. S., on the Archeological Survey of Southern India from February to May 1888. Fep. 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Beveridge, Esq., Babi Gaurdas Bysack, Babi Sarat Chandra Das, EH. Gay, Esq., Dr. Hoernle, Dr. W. King, T. R. Mallet, Esq., Baba Asutosh Mukhopddhydya, A. M. Nash, Hisq., L. de Nicéville, Esq., Kumar Upendra Chandra Ray, D. Waldie, Esq., J. Westland, Esq. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. Thirty-nine presentations were announced, details of which are given in the Library List appended. The following gentleman, duly proposed and seconded at the last meeting of the Society, was ballotted for and re-elected an Ordinary Member : W. Crooke, Esq., C. S. The following gentlemen are candidates for election at the next meeting :— | Babi Jogendra Chandra Ghose, M. A., B. L., Vakil, High Court, proposed by H. Beveridge, Hsq., seconded by Dr. P. K. Ray. 224, Philological Secretary— Report on Coins. [Dac. G. C. Dudgeon, Esq., Mumfick Lebong Tea Company, Darjeeling, proposed by L. de Niceville, Esq., seconded by J. Wood-Mason, Esq. Kumar Rameswar Maliah, of Searsole, (for re-election) proposed by Babu Gaurdas Bysack, seconded by Lieut.-Col. J. Waterhouse. The following gentlemen have intimated their wish to withdraw from the Society : Lieut.-Genl. G. G. Pearse, R. H. A., C. B. W. Fiddian, Esq., C. S. The PrestpEnt announced that Mr. Pedler had been obliged to resign the post of Treasurer on account of ill-health, and that the duties had been taken up by Dr. W. King; also that the Councit had with much pleasure accepted the invi- tation of the Microscopical Society that the President of the Asiatic Society should be an Honorary Member of their Society. Bsst Sarat CHannra Dés exhibited some Tibetan MSS., one written in letters of gold, of the Bodhipathapradipa, by Dipamkara Srijfidna, the celebrated Buddhist Pandit of Bengal, who visited Tibet in 10388 A. D. (postponed from last meeting). Mr. E. T. Atkinson exhibited a Tibetan Map, painted on cloth, of Sikkim and adjacent parts of Tibet, including the Chimbi valley, and Phari, &c., obtained from the Tibetan camp. The Puinonoaican SECRETARY read a report on a find of 477 gold mohurs, forwarded by the Deputy Commissioner of Hoshangdbad with his letters No. 2612, 2955, and 3588, dated respectively 7th July 1888, 28th July 1888 and 12th September 1888, 1. The coins are stated to have been found in a field, in the Sohdgpur Tahsil of the Hoshangabad district, by some ploughmen, while ploughing. 2. On examination 25 of the coins were found to be forgeries. ‘Twenty one of these show on both faces a few illegible scrawls, some of -which appear to be attempts at imitating Persian letters, while others seem to be a very crude imitation of the fish symbol on some. of Shah ’Alam’s coinage ; this is the only clue to their possible age. The other four are forgeries of Aurangzib’s and Farrukh Siyar’s mohurs. I have had them tested by Messrs. Cooke and Kelvey, Jewellers of Calcutta, who pronounce them to be silver gilt and worth about 8 annas each. 3. The other coins numbering 452 are genuine and belong to the following emperors of Dehli: 1888. ] : 6 oa Names of Sultan. ¢_ Z, 1 Ghiyagu-d-din Balban 1265-87 A. D. 2 Muizzu-d-dinKai- qgubad 1287-90 A, DD. 3 Jalalu-d-din Fi- ruz 1290-1295 AyD: 4-}1 ’Aldu-d-din Mu- hammad 1295- . 35,4. Di 12-44 do. 45-394 do. 395-397 . Ghiyasu-d-din Tughlag 1520- i320 A. D. 3d 300 Philological Secretary—Report on Coins, Description of coin. specimens. 1. Chron, No. 111, p. 134; mint Dehli (?), date 667. 1 - Chron, No. 116, p. 141; mint Dehli; date 688. 1 Chron. No. 120, p. 144; mint Dehli; date 691. 8 Chron. No. 134, p.171 ; mint Deogir; date 7121, 714, illegible 6. mint Daru-l-Islam ; dates 6971, 703%, 7042, 705!, 706!, 7072, 7101, qiL*,, (025; (13°, (14P, illegible 11. broad ) No. 131 (small, thick), 2 varieties. Mint Deh- li; dates 696!%, 6971, 698%, 6994, 700, 7011 4 7029, 703% 70438, | 70519, 7064, 707%, 7083, 7094, 7102, 71118, 71214, 71318, 7144, 7154, illegible 175. 3 Chron. No. 159, p.190; mint Dehli; — dates 724, 727, illegible 1. Chron. No. 133, p. 171; ) Chron. No. 130 (large, >) and Chron. | 225: Frequency. . Rare. Rare. Very rare (unique in Chron). Very rare (in gold). Very rare (in gold). Not mon. uucom- Not common. 226 Philological Secretary—Report on Coins. No. Names of Sultan. 398-399 Muhammad bin Tughlag 13265- 1351 A. D. 400-401 do. 402 Muhammad bin Tughlag 1325- igoleA..D: 403 do. 404 do. 405-408 do 409.412 do. 413-420 do. A21 do. 422-424 Firtz Shah 1385:- 1388 A. D. No. of specimens. 2 3 Description of coin. Chron. No. 171, p. 207; mint Dehli ; dates 726, 727. Chron. No. 172, p. 208; mint Dehli; date 725. Chron. No. 174, p. 209, also J: A; 8S: .6., Salt, p- 62; mint Deogir, date 727. Chron. No. 175, p. 210; mint Sultanpur ; date tau. Chron. No. 176, p. 211; mint Dehli; date 736. Chron. No. 179, p. 218 ; no mint; dates 733%, 734%, Chron. No. 212, p. 259; mint Dehli; dates TAL!, 7432, 744), Chron. No. 213, p. 259 ; no mint or date. (Dec. Frequency. Not common. Very rare (in gold,unique in Chron.) Rare. Very rare. Not uncom- mon. Very rare (unique in Chron.) Rare. Not common. Compare Chron. No. 218, Unique (in p- 260 (copper only) ; no mint or date. Chron. No. 223, p. 274; no mint or date, gold). Very rare. 1888. ] Serial No. 425-429 430-439 440 4,4,] -4,4.2 443-444 445-446 44:7 448 449-450 Philological Secretary—Report on Coins. Names of Sultan. ~ do. Firtiz Shah and Fath Khan 1358 -lo@4A. D. Firtz Shah and Zafar 1374, Ghiyasu-d-din Tughlag II11388 Ae BD), Abu Bakr bin Za- far 1388-89. Muhammad bin Firtiz 1389-92 A; BD. Mahmud bin Mu- hammad bin F1- ruz 1392-12 A. D, No. of specimens. 5 Chron. No. 224, p. 274; mint Dehli; date 765, 10 2 Description of coin. illegible 4. Chron. No. 225, p. 275 ; no mint or date. Chron. No. 226, p. 275; mint Dehli ; date 766. Chron. 240, p. 298; mint Sultanpur (?); date [76 ]1, illegible 2. Chron. No. 245, p. 300, alae: J. A. S...5. XX, p- 160; mint and date lost. Not in Chron.; Mint Dehli, date 791; il- legible 1; (both new varieties). Not in Chron.; mint and date lost. Chron. No. 263, p. 308, also J. A.S. B. XLV, p. 27k, no mint (or date. J. Ae, DULY, p. 127 and LII, p. 213 (with Muzaffar) ; no mint or date. 227 Frequency. Rare, Very rare. Very rare (unique in Chron.) Very rare. Very rare (unique in Chron). Unique. Unique. Very rare. Very rare(only 3 others). 228 Philological Secretary—Report on Coins. [ Dec. Serial No. Names of Sultan. Description of coin. Frequency. 451 MahmidbinMu- 1 J.A.S.B.XLIII,p.97, Very rare(only hammad bin and: XLIX, p. 211, 3 others.) Tughlaq, 1351 No. 9; no mint or A.D, date. 452 Sikandar Shah 1 Compare J. A. S. B. Unique (in bin Ilyas, of XXXII, p. 64, No. 2 gold.) Bengal, 1351- (silver only). 1389 A. D. Forgeries. 453-454 Aurangzib 1658- 2 Similar to Marsden’s 1707 As dD, DCCCLXXXIV; mint Strat; date lost. 455-456 Farrukh Siyar 2 Mint Htawa (?); date W71L2-19' AD. [112]8, regn. 5. 457-477 Perhaps Shah 21 Unintelligible scrawls. Alam. The following papers were read. 1. Note on a Bicircular Quartic.—By Basu Asurosa Muxsopsé- puydy, M. A., F. R. A. S., FV B.S. Bi (Abstract.) The object of this note is to point out the relation between the dif- ferent modes of generating a limacon, viz., as the pedal of a circle, as the locus of a point such that its power with respect to a. given circle is in a fixed ratio to its distance from the extremity of a fixed diameter, and as the envelope of a circle whose centre moves on a given circle and which passes through a given point. The inverse and spare analogue of the curve are also considered. The paper will be published in full in the Journal, Part IT. 2. On some new or rare Muhammadan and Hindu coins.—By Dr. A. F. Rupotr HoERNLE. The paper will be published in the Journal, Part I. —a~ | 1888:] Lnbrary: 229 Lisrary. The aie additions have been made to the Library since the Meeting held in November last. J RANSACTIONS, pr cit AND JOURNALS, } "presented by the respective Societies and Editors. Bombay. The Indian Antiquary,—Vol. XVII, Part 213, October, 1888, Calcutta. Indian Meteorological: Memoirs,— Vol. IV; Part. 5: — ——. Indian Engineering,—Vol. IV, Nos. 19—22. Meteorological Observations recorded at seven stations Ted, corrected and reduced,—July, 1888. The Indian Engineer,—Vol. VI, Nos. 6—9, and Index to Vol. V-. Christiania. idénskabs-Salctahel Christiania,—Forhandlinger, Aar. 1887. A Dresden. Ko6nigliches Ethnographisches Museum zu Dresden,—I. Bilderschriften des Ostindischen Ar -chipels: und. der Siidsee. : —. Il. Jadeit-und Nephrit- -Objecte. A. Amerika in und Huropa. ; —. 1 ———.._ III. Jadeit- and Nephrit-Objecte. B. Asien Oceanien und Afrika. —. IV. Alterthiimer aus dem Ostindischen Ar —. V. Seltene Waffen aus Afrika, chipel. Asien und ce ° Amerika, ee VI, Holz-und Bambus-Gerithe aus N ord. West Neu Guinea. ——. Konigl. Zoologisches und Anthropologisch- -Ethnographi- sches Museum zu Dresden ,—Abhandlungen und Berichte. 1886—87. —. K. Zoologisches Museum zu Dresden »—Abbildungen von Vogel- Skeleten,—Lieferung I—XT. ap es pers Mittheilungen, Heft 1—3, Dublin. Royal preolgieal Bec y of Ireland »— Journal, Vol. VII, Part, 2 Hdiburgh. The Scottish Geographical Society, No. 10. October, 1888. —Magazine, Vol. IV, Frankfurt, a. M. Die Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Frankfurt am Main,—Bericht, 1888, . whe Hague. Koninklijk Instituut voor de Taal,-Land-en Volkenkunde. van Nederlandsch- -Indié,—bijdragen tot de Taal,- Land-en Volken -kunde van Nederlandsch-Indié, 5e Volgr, Deel IIT, Aflevering, 4. ; 230 Library. [ Dec. Havre. Société de Géographie Commerciale du Havre, —Bulletin, Juillet-Aott, 1888. Leipzig. Der Deutschen Morgenlindischen Gesellschaft, —Zeitschrift, Band, XLII, Heft, 3. London. Institution of Civil Engineers,—Minutes of Proceedings, Vol. XCIV and Brief Subject Index Vols. LIX—XCIV. —-—. Nature,—Vol. XXXIX, Nos. 990—998. -————. Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland,—Journal, Vol. XX, Part 3, July, 1888. —-—w—. Royal Geographical Society,—Proceedings, Vol. X, No, 10, October, 1888. Royal Society of London,—Exchange list of duplicates and deficiencies. ————. Philosophical Transactions, Vol. CLXXVIII, A and B. ——.._ List of Fellows, 30th November, 1887. —--. The Academy,—Nos. 859—862. —. The Atheneum,—Nos. 3182—8185. Lyon. La Société D’Anthropologie de Lyon,—Bulletin, Tome VI et Tome VII, Nos. 1 et 2. Melbourne. Royal Society of Victoria,—Transactions and Proceedings, Vol. XXIV, Parts 1 and 2. Mexico. La Sociedad Cientifica “ Antonio Alzate,”—Memorias, Tomo II, Nos. 2 et 3. : Paris. lua Société D’Anthropologie de Paris,—Bulletin, Tome XI (IITe série), Nos. 1 et 2. —. La Société Zoologique de France,—Bulletin, Tome XIII, No. 7. pees Ea | Mémoires, Tome I, Part 4. ——-, Musée Guimet,—Annales, Tome XIV. ———. Revue de l’Histoire des Religions, Tome XVII, Nos. 1 et 2. Philadelphia. The Journal of Comparative Medicine and Surgery, Vol. IX, No. 4. Rome. la Société degli Spettroscopisti Italiani,—Memorie, Vol. XVII, Dispensa 9. St. Petersburg. L’ Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg, — Bulletin, Tome. XXXII, No. 2. eames eee a : Mémoires, Tome XXVI, Nos. 1 et 2. ——. la Société Impériale Russe de Géograpbie,—Journal, 1887. —, s ———— Proceedings, XXIV, No. 2. Stettin. HEntomologischer Verein zu Stettin,—Hntomologische Zeitung, —Jahrgang, XLIX, Nrn. 7—9. Turin. La R. Accademia delle Scienze di Torino,—Atti, Vol. XXIII, Disp. 13—15. — a ee caer ek a ee ee 1888. ] Library. 231 Vienna. Der K. K. Geologischen Reichsanstalt,—Verhandlungen, No. 18, 1888. Zagreb. Hrvatskoga Arkeologickoga Druztva,—Viestnik, Godina. X, Br. 4. : Pooks AND PAMPHLETS, presented by the Authors, Translators, Sc. Beetar, J. D. Report of the Archwological Survey of Bengal for 1888. Svo. Calcutta, 1888. Bianrorp, W. T. Note sur la classification des Roches de I’Inde Britannique (Extrait du Compte Rendu de la troisiéme session du Congrés Géologique International, Berlin 1885). 8vo. Berlin, 1885. Roy, Protas CHanpra. The Mahabharata, translated into English Prose, Part XLIV. 8vo. Calcutta, 1888. SACcHAU, Epvuarp. Indo-Arabische Studien zur Aussprache und Ge- schichte des Indischen in der Ersten Halfte des XI. Jahrhunderts. (Aus den Abhandlungen der Ké6nigl. Preuss. Akademie der Wis- senschaften zu Berlin vom Jahre 1888). 4to. Berlin, 1888. MiscELLANEOUS J RESENTATIONS, Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural History), Part I containing the orders Ornithosauria, Cro- codilia, Dinosauria, Squamata, Rhynchocephalia, and Proterosau- ria. By Richard Lydekker, B. A., F. G. S., etc. 8vo. London, 1888. Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or Perching Birds, in the collection of the British Museum, Vol. XIV. Oligomyode, or the families Tyrannide, Oxyrhamphidae, Pipridae, Contingidae, Phytotomidae, Philepittidae, Pittidae, Xenicidae, and Hurylaemidae. By Philip Lutley Sclater. 8vo. London, 1888. British Museum, Lonpon. Report on the Railway-Borne Traffic of the Central Provinces for the year 1887-88. Fcp. Nagpur, 1888. CHIEF COMMISSIONER, CENTRAL PROVINCES. Antinoos eine kunstarchaologische Untersuchung von Dr. L. Dietrichson. 8vo. Christiania, 1884. Catuls Digtning belyst i forhold til den tidligere greske og latinske litteratur af A. B. Drachmann. 8vo. Copenhagen, 1887. Catul’s Digtning oplyst idens sammenheng med den tidligere greske og latinske literatur af L. B. Stenersen. 8vo. Christiania, 1887. Guderne hos Vergil. Bidrag til belysning af Aeneidens komposition af A. B. Drachmann. 8vo Copenhagen, 1887. Joannis Agricolae Islebiensis Apophthegmata nonnulla nunc primum edidit Dr. Ludovicus Daae. 4to. Christiania, 1886. 232 Library. [ Dec. Viridarium Norvegicum. Norges Vextrige. Ht bidrag til Nord-Huropas natur-og culturhistorie af Dr. F. C. Schiibeler. Iste Band 2det Hefte og 2det Band Iste og 2det Hefte. 4to. Christiania, 1888. Om Humanisten og Satirikeren Johan Lauremberg af Dr. Ludvig Daae. 8vo. Christiania, 1884. Udsigt.over den Romerske Satires Forskjellige Arter og deres oo: delse af L, B. Stenersen. 8vo. Christiania, 1887. CuHRIsTIANIA UNIVERSITY. Catalogue of Canadian Plants. By John Macoun, M. A., F.L.S., F. BR. S.C. Part IV,—Endogens. 8vo. Montreal, 1888. GroLocicaL anp Narurat History Survey or Canapa. Report on the Administration of the Salt Department for the year 1887- 88. Fep. Calcutta, 1888. Report on the Calcutta Medical Institutions for the year 1887. By A. Hilson, Hsq., M. D., Offe. Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals, Bengal. Fep. Calcutta, 1888. Report on the Legal Affairs of the Bengal Government for the year 1887-88. Fep. Calcutta, 1888. The Indian Forester, Vol. XIV, Nos. 9 and 10, September and October, 1888. S8vo. Boorkee, 1888. GOVERNMENT OF BENGAL. Coins. Catalogue No. 2. Roman, Indo-Portuguese, and Ceylon. By Edgar Thurston, Superintendent, Madras Central Museum. 8yo, Madras, 1888. GovERNMENT CrentraL Museum, MaAnras. Copy of the Despatch from the Secretary of State for India conveying the Resolution of the House of Commons, dated the 5th day of June 1888, with respect to Contagious Diseases Acts and Regulations in India. Fcp. London, 1888. Copy of Letter from the Registrar of the Nizamut Adawlut to the Secretary to the Government of Bengal, No. 351, dated the 29th day of June 1859, contaming the Judgment of the Court in the cases of certain prisoners sentenced to imprisonment by Mr. Taylor, in connection with the riots at Patna on the 3rd day of July 1857. Fep. London, 1888. Further Papers relating to the case of Mr. W. Taylor, of Patna. TFep. London, 1888. Copy of the Report of the Bombay Factory Commission, appointed to consider the working of Factories in the Bombay Presidency, dated the 6th day of January 1885, and of the Resolution of the Govern- ° ment of Bombay thereon. Fep. London, 1888. Copy of Resolution of Government of India on State-aided Education. Fep. London, 1888, 1888. |] ; Library. 933 Correspondence regarding the adoption by the States of Rajputana of Reforms in connection with Marriage and Funeral Customs. TF cp. London, 1888. First and Second Reports from the Select Committee on Hast India (Hyderabad Deccan Mining Company). First and Second Reports from the Select Committee on Hast India (Hyderabad Deccan Mining Company), together with the Proceed- ings of the Committee, Minutes of evidence, and Appendix. Fcp. ‘London, 1888. Report of the Royal Commission for the Adelaide Jubilee International Exhibition of 1887. 8vo. London, 1888. S4ma Veda, Samhita, with Sayana’s commentary (in Bengali character), with Bengali translation. By Satyavrata S4magrami. Parts 45—48. 8vo. Calcutta, 1888. Selections from the Records of the Government of India, Home Depart- ment, No. CCXLVII.—Reports on Publications issued ard register- ed in the several Provinces of British India during the year 1887. Fep. Calcutta, 1888. The Indian Antiquary, Vol. XVII, Part 213, October, 1888. Ato Bombay, 1888. GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, Home Department. Administration Report of the Government Central Museum for the year 1887-88. Fcp. Madras, 1838. GOVERNMENT Museum, Mapras. Gazetteer of the Punjab, Provincial Volume. 1888-89, 8vo. GOVERNMENT OE PUNJAB. Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria; or figures and descriptions of the living species of all classes of the Victorian Indigenous Animals. By Frederick McCoy. Decade XVI. Svo. Melbourne, 1888. | GOVERNMENT OF VICTORIA. Prachin Shodh Sangrah. Compiled by Yajeshankar Govrishankar Oza Esq. 4to. Bhavnagar, 1838. His Hicguness tHe Mauarasa or BHAVNAGAR. Results of the Magnetical and Meteorological Observations made at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in the year 1886. 4to. London, 1888. Royat OBSERVATARY, GREENWICH. Tottabodhini Patrika, No. 544. Fep. Calcutta, 1888. TOTTABODHINI SABHA. 234. Library. [Dec., 1888, PERIODICALS PURCHASED. Berlin. Deutsche Litteraturzeitung,—Jahrgang IX, Nrn. 36—39. Journal fiir die reine und angewandte Mathematik,— Band CIII, Heft, 4. Calcutta. Stray Feathers,—Vol. XI, Nos. 1—4. Cassel. Botanisches Centralblatt,—Band XXXV, Heft, 9—12. Geneva. Archives des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles,—Tome XX, No. 10, Octobre, 1888. Gottingen. Der Konigl. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften,—Gottin- gische Gelehrte Anzeigen, Nrn. 18 und 19, —<——. ——.. Nachrichten, Nrn. 11 und 12. Leipzig. Annalen der Physik und Chemie,—Band XXXV, Heft, 2 und 3. Beiblatter, Band XII, Stiick, 9 und 10. Litterarisches Centralblatt,—Nrn, 37—40, 1888. Leyden. Internationales Archiv ftir Ethnographie,—Band I, Heft, V. London. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History,—Vol. II (sixth series), No. 10, October, 1888. ———. The Chemical News,—Vol. LYIII, Nos. 8—11. ———. The Entomologist,—Vol. XXI, No. 305, October, 1888. ———. The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine, Land, XXV, No. 298, October, 1888. ——-—. The Journal of Botany,— Vol. XX VI, No. 310, October, 1888. ———. The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine, —Vol. XXVI (Fifth series), August, 1888, No. 161, October, 1888. ——-—-. The Messenger of Mathematics,—Vol. XVIII (new series) ——. The Nineteenth Century,—Vol. XXIV, No. 141, November, 1888. The Quarterly Journal of pure and applied Mathematics,— Vol. XXIII, No. 91, October, 1888. ——. The Society of Arts,—Journal, Vol. XXXVI, Nos. 1874— 1877. Paris. L’ Académie des Sciences,—Comptes Rendus des Séances, Tome CVII, Nos. 10—12. ——. Revue Critique d’ Histoire et de Littérature,—Tome XXVI, Nos. 36—89. Revue Scientifique,—Tome XLII (8rd series) Nos. 15—18. Philadelphia. Manual of Conchology,—Vol. X, No, 2, and Vol. IV, 2nd series, No. 2. 2 oem ke eee —— ——— i OO ee ee ae, eee ee eS eee fae Deseo ek TO THE PROCEEDINGS, ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL FOR 1888. wee eeeereeeereee_s 0 00 00 OOOO OOOO er Page Abdul Latif (Nawab), elected Member of Council ... a ke ae 2 elected Member of Library Committee ... 94 elected Member of Philological Committee ab. ? 99 2? 9 99 9 Actias Selene... a 177 Adamson (Major C. H. E.), ccloaiel an Ordinary Member ee 73 Adi Purana, translation of ... sis we 178 Address by the President... so0 SOO #2 Ajodhyanatha Pandit, (Hon.), sicehodra an co jae Niamiagr fi. 73 - e 2 elected Member of Philological Committee At ae 94, 5 » a compounded subscription as Non- Resident Member et 95 Akbar and Father Jerome Xavier, paper on He sins 116 Alcock, (Dr. A.), elected an Ordinary Member ... nae 73 Allahabad University, opening of bie bigs 56 American Meterological Journal, offer of prizes 4, ak the best Essays on Tornadoes... 174 _ Amir Ali (Syud), elected member of ctor and heced policed Committee ... a3 ast 94 Ancient stone implements in iddip is a2 ...192, 194 Anderson, (H. H.), elected an Ordinary Member ... ate 73 i 3 elected Member of Natural History Com- mittee 56 95 +3 7 Anopolophrya Ae Seen and ierdedacs wae 206 Annual Meeting... aah G: Fed sig 13 >t 6 koport ... ie it sat aan ab. Anopolophrya ceolosomotis ... se ail sald 206 Antherea Assama ie isi es bale 176 ” Mylitta ove ee eee a00 ab, 236 Index. Page Anthropology, noticeon ... ome Se AG 60 Archeological excavations in Bijnour ... = vi 208 e Survey, notice of work done by 7 ba 56 Aroidex, on the nature of the Toxic principles of ... and 116 Arthiwa (Sanskrit) inscription, note on ‘iis Boe 184 Asoka, discovery of the twelfth edict of se soe 95 Attacus Atlas es fae ae ae 176 | vecany Fe ste ab. Atkinson (E. T.), Notes on ladian Rhynchota, Heteroniers «ws «3, Loe a i elected Vice-President sce ask 71 2 elected Member of Library Committee ag 94 e zs elected Member of Finance Committee sr ab. sa 55 elected an Honorary Member of the Royal. | Imperial Hungarian Academy... gas 164 4 ss Pseudopulvinart Sikkimensis oo - 206 Pea . exhibited a Tibetan Map of Sikkim, and aa jacent part of Tibet, &c. ue D270 To Sans. MSS. Fund cae a oe 33,0 0: 10,005 45-9 Total Ree..0) 15073 1o07 Examined and found correct. Mrvucens & KING, Public Accountants. 31st January, 1888. XXV No. 4. Account. Cr By Cash Receipts Nae ar Rs. 14,099 5 8 By Asiatic Society te ee Sai 244 10 6 By Oriental Publication Fund ays ite 20 4 O 14,364 4 2 Due to the Due by the lo Society. Society. Members ... a eeeoGe ya so ) 18h) B94 --7 Subscribers to Pub- lications a 43 | 7) 6 OF AVAL b 6 Employees wet 280); O}° 0.7 250°) 07. 0 Agents... ep eco. LO: |) G6 £2,682 | 14°). 9 Miscellaneous... 65 |}15| 6] 290] 4] 6 1,409 11 5 Total Rs... 15,773 18° 7 Arex. PEDLER, Honorary Secy. and Treasurer, Asiatic Society of Bengal. XXVi1 STATEMENT Invest Nominal. Actual. To Balance from last Report ... Ee Rs. 1,56,300 O O 1,55,820 9 10 Total Rs. 1,56,300 0 O 1,55,820 9 10 4 Examined and found correct. Mervucens & KIne, Public Accountants. 31st January, 1888. STATEMENT Trust : | Dr. To Balance (Servants’ Pension Fund) _... os a) Ba cde oe Total Rs:... L112 3.46 Examined and found correct. Mervueens & KIne, Public Accountants. 31st January, 1888. XXVil No. 8. ments. Cr, By Balance from last Report ... Nominal. Rs. 1,56,300 0 O Actual. 1,55,820 910 Total Rs. 1,56,300 0 O 1,55,820 9 10 ALEX.PEDLER, Honorary Secy. and Treasurer, Asiatic Society of Bengal. No. 6. Fund. By Balance from last Report ... By Interest on Investments ALEX. PEDLER, Honorary Secy. and Treasurer, Asiatic Society of Bengal. Rs. 1,071 _ 3.10 Total Rs. 40 0 O tit +S 10 oS ee ee es XXVil To Balance from last Report RECEIPTS. To Asiatic Society To O. P. Fund To Sans. MSS., Fund To Personal Account To Trust Fund To Cash To Personal Account To Investments STATEMENT Cash. Rs. 1,900 10 2 8,700 7 11 10,305 4 4 3,209 0 0 14,099 5 8 40 0 0 Total Rs. 38,254 12 1 Examined and found correct. MervuceEens & Kine, Public Accountants. 31st January, 1888. STATEMENT Balance ae: 700 2 8 1,409 11 5 1,55,820 9 10 Total Rs. 1,57,930 7 11 Examined and found correct. Merverns & KINe, Public Accountants, 31st January, 1888. XX1xX No... 7. Cr, EXPENDITURE. By Asiatic Society aes vee By oO, Pp; Fund eos ooo ooo By Sans. MSS. Fund oes see By Personal Account vee vee By Balance. see ALEX. PEDLER, Honorary Secy. and Treasurer, Asiatic Society of Bengal. No. 8. Sheet. Cr. By Asiatic Society By O. P. Fund By Sans. MSS. Fund By Trust Fund ALEX. PEDLER, Honorary Secy. and Treasurer, Asiatic Society of Bengal. aks, “15,757 246 By 16,987 3 4 tee 8,648 6 0 oe Lick §& 8 ene 700° 2.8 Total Rs. 38,254 12 1 . Rs. 1,42,7385 12 7 12,368 2 6 L7ite 6 0 Ltt 326 Total Rs. 1,57,930 7 11 VES ee, vos PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, EDITED BY JHE JIONORARY pPECRETARIES, No. I. JANUARY, 1888. fo i. Ae SURRIM — PRET RE) GBB CR a = : rey z 2: tS eats a TT a Ti I = di lh Hh Lo PUTT CTO LLL a Sb. = = = Se : Pre ry ON a ee Pee WYANT A BES oR Yo qowe /9/ @ AI—I “O8ed (350) hem tayapee sud I vias ORR /9/ ® XI—1 [280d (950.1) “TPYOe MA ahi f o 4st 8 Asny, ‘10 “ISL ESET ag give. 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