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List of Members of the Gane Bich on a Sst Dene
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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.
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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.
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Classe, Heft 2—4, 1885; Heft 1—3, 1886; Inhaltsverzeichniss Jahr-
gang 1871—1885.
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10 Settembre et Ottobre 1887.
Paris. Journal Asiatique,—Tome X, No. 1—Juillet-Aott, 1887.
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Juin—Juillet, 1887.
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St. Petersburg. la Société Impériale Russe de Geographie,—Journal,
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Vienna. Der K. K. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums,—Annalen, Band
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Yokohama. Der Deutschen Gesellschaft fiir Natur-und Volkerkunde
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Leopold yon Ranke, von Wilhelm v. Giesebrecht.
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8 Library. [Jan.
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Zum Begriff und Wesen der rdmischen Provinz, von Alois von Brinz.
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year 1886. Fcp. Sydney, 1887.
Geology of the Vegetable Creek Tin-Mining Field, New England district,
New South Wales, with maps and sections. 4to. Sydney, 1887.
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manischer Religionsgeschichte. Habilitationsschrift der Philosophis-
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der venia legendi, vorgelegt von Dr. P. von Bradke. 8vo. Giessen,
1884,
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Report on the Administration of the Customs Department in the Bengal
Presidency for the official year 1886-87. Fep. Calcutta, 1887.
Report on the Calcutta Medical Institutions for the year 1886. cp.
Calcutta, 1887.
Report on the Charitable Dispensaries under the Government of Bengal
for the year 1886. Fcp. Calcutta, 1887.
Selections from the Records of the Government of India, Home Depart-
ment, No. CCXIII. Reports on publications issued and registered
in the several provinces of British India during the year 1884. Fep.
Calcutta, 1886.
GOVERNMENT OF BENGAL.
The Avifauna of British India and its dependencies, by James A. Murray.
Vol. I, Part 3. 8vo. Bombay, 1887.
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Memoir on the winds and monsoons of the Arabian Sea and North
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Monthly Weather Review August, 1887. 4to. Washington, 1887.
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1888. ] Library. 9
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Johns Hopkins University. Studies in Historical and Political Science,
Fifth Series, X. The study of Historyin England and Scotland, by
Paul Frederico. 8vo. Baltimore, 1887.
Jouns Hopkins University, BALtimore.
Anuario del Observatorio Astrénomico Nacional de Tacubaya, para el
Ano de 1888. Afio VIII. 8vo. Mexico, 1887.
SECRETARIA DE Fomento, Mexico. .
The Sumangala-Vilasini, Buddhaghosa’s Commentary on the Digha
Nikaya. Edited by T. W. Rhys-Davids and J. Estlin Carpenter,
Part I. 8vo. London, 1886.
The Vemana-Vatthu of the Khuddhaka Nikaya Sutta Pitaka. Edited
by Edmund Rowland Gooneratne. 8vo. London.
Patt Text Soctetry, Lonpon.
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, F. R.S. Decade 1—14. 8vo. Melbourne, 1880.
Pusuic Liprary, Museums anp NationaL GALLERY or VICTORIA,
MELBOURNE.
Annual Report of the Director of the Royal Alfred Observatory, Mauritius,
for the year 1886. Fcp. Mauritius, 1887.
Mauritius Meteorological Results for 1886. Fcp. Mauritius, 1888.
C. Mutprum, Esa.
Results of the Magnetical and Meteorological Observations made at the
Royal Observatory, Greenwich in the year 1885. 4to. London, 1887.
Royal OBSERVATORY, GREENWICH.
Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada for the
years 1885 and 1886, Vols. III and IV. 4to. Montreal, 1886 and 1887.
Roya Society, CANADA.
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Berlin. Deutsche Litteraturzeitung,—VIII Jahrgang, Nrn. 40—44.
—-—. Zeitschrift fiir Ethnologie.—XIX Jahrgang, Heft 4.
Calcutta. Indian Medical Gazette, Vol. XXII, No. 11, November, 1887.
Cassel. Botanisches Centralblatt,—Band XXXI, Heft 2 und 18; Band
XXXII, Heft 1—4.
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No. 11, Novembre 1887.
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Heft 4.
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——--. The Entomologist,—Vol. XX, No. 294, November, 1887.
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November, 1887.
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ber and November, 1887.
The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine,
Vol. XXIV (5th series), No. 150, November, 1887.
The Messenger of Mathematics, Vol. XVII, No. 7, November,
1887.
Nineteenth Century,—Vol. XXII, No. 130, December, 1887.
Society of Arts,—Journal, Vol. XXXVI, Nos. 1826—1829.
New Haven, Conn. The American Journal of Science,—Vol. XXXIV,
(8rd series), No. 202, October, 1887.
Paris. L’ Académie des Sciences,—Comptes Rendus des Séances, Tome
CV, Nos. 13—17.
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1888. | Inbrary. 1l
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PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL.
FoR J EBRUARY, 1888,
peo
The Annual Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was held on
Wednesday the lst February 1888, at 9 p. M.
E. T. 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.
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: 7) d . |e a e
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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 <r -s adi 6,200 0 O
Miscellaneous aes vee bes “Re 100 0 O
14,000 0 0
EXPENDITURE.
Salaries eee ase i Rs. 4,000 0 O
Commission “i be a ue 330 0 0
Stationery ae aa bie ae 150 O°"
Lighting ees se a 80 0 0
Building Grdiegy:: sve ae dod 100 0 O
Taxes tee ove 3a hs 714 0 O
Postage see Yi a: a3 600 0 0
Freight ees ao ae “OF 206010
Meeting eos ove oe < 100.0 0
Contingencies as re ee nS 150 0 0
Books nie ae 6 Tes 1,50u 0 0
Local Periodicals... ae pen wey our e Ore U
Binding ios ase ace wee 900 0-0
Journals an a awe ses 4,200 0 O
Proceedings ire eae aes wae 1,200 0 0
Printing Circulars &c. aes ose nce 16 700
13,824 0 0
Probable extraordinary expenditure during 1888.
For repairs to House a Rs. 2,500 0 0
Tron Railing and new Durwan’s ae eve oma. i. 2000, O50
London Agency.
The statement submitted by Messrs. Triibner & Cc. of their account
with the Society for 1886, showed a debit balance for £183-7-9. This ig
an unusually large and unfavourable balance against the Society. In last
year’s accounts the balance for 1885 was only £107-8-83. The cause
of this exceptionally large balance is apparently due to two facts.
18 Annual Report. [Fus.
First, the sales made by Messrs. Triibner and Co. in 1886, are only
about one-fifth of the usual amount, the total sum credited being only
£21-1-10, instead of annual average sale proceeds of about a hundred
pounds, but no explanation of this fact has been received. The expen-
diture side has also been largely swelled by the cost of plates for Part
IL. of the Journal, which has amounted to £88-9-0.
The sales of the Society’s Publications effected by Messrs. Triibner
and Co. in 1886 amounted to only £14-19-43, against the sum of
£49-5-9 in 1885, while the sales of the Bibliotheca Indica only reach-
ed £6-3-6 in 1886, against the sum of £59-9-3 in 1885.
The numbers of copies of parts of the Journal, of the Proceedings
and of the Bibliotheca Indica sent to Messrs. Triibner and Co. during
1587 for sale were 180, 240, and 483 respectively.
Thirteen invoices of books pnrchased and of Publications of various
Societies sent in exchange were received in 1887. The value of the
books purchased in 1887, was £116-5-1.
The amount of £129-8-9, the balance in the hands of the late Mr.
Grote on account of the publications of Atkinson’s Lepidoptera, Part
III, was made over to Messrs. Triibner and Co. in March 1887.
Library.
The total number of printed volumes or parts of volumes added to
the Library during the year was 2,171, of which 797 were purchased, and
1374 presented.
Of the Catalogues of Manuscripts reported last year as in progress,
the Burmese Catalogue has been completed, and is in the press.
A Manuscript of the Riydz-ush-Shw ard, a history of Persian poetry,
was purchased at a cost of Rs. 40.
Publications.
There were published for the year ten numbers of the Proceedings
containing 275 pages of letter-press, and 4 plates ; three nnmbers of the
Journal, Part I, containing 173 pages of letter-press and 10 plates; and
four numbers of the Journal, Part II, containing 376 pages of letter-
press and 15 plates. There was also published a fifth part of the Journal
Part II for 1886, after the report for that year had been issued.
There were also published during the year the Indexes to the Journal
Part II for the years 1884, 1885 and 1886.
Building.
The expenditure on the building during the year was Rs. 2,428, of
which Rs. 1,214 was for renewing decayed beams and burgahs in the
roof, and Rs. 1,214 for half-terracing the roof.
1888. | Annual Report. SD
Coin Cabinet.
During the year 63 coins were added to the Cabinet, of which 2
were of gold, 57 of silver and 4 of copper. One of the two gold coins,
a Kufi coin found in Seistan, was acquired by purchase ; the four copper
coins were presented to the Society by Kaviraj] Shyamal Das of
Udaipur, in connection with his paper on the ancient remains at Nagari
in Meywar, published in the Journal Part I.; all the rest were acquired
under the Treasure Trove Act, and were from the Bengal Presidency.
Detailed descriptions of the coins are given in the Society’s Proceedings
for January and November, with the exception of the four copper coins,
which were so defaced as to be past identification.
Office of the Secretaries.
Mr. J. Wood-Mason, and Mr. H. M. Percival, continued as Natural
History Secretary, and General Secretary during the year. During the
temporary absence of the General Secretary in May and October his
duties were taken up by the Treasurer.
Dr. Hoernle took over charge of the duties of Philological Secretary
from Mr. H. Beveridge in January.
Mr. J. Eliot held the Treasurership from January to the beginning
of May, when, on his departure for Simla, Mr. A. Pedler succeeded him
as ‘Treasurer.
Mr. H. Ronaldson continued as Assistant Secretary during the year.
Mr. J. H. Elliott continued as Assistant Librarian till December,
when, on his being granted leave without pay for one year, his duties
were distributed between the Cashier and the Copyist, and sanction
given for the appointment of a new Copyist.
Babu Nritya Gopal Bose has continued as Cashier, Babu Hari Mohan
Mukherji as Pandit, and Babu Jogesh Chandra Chatterji as Copyist,
during the year.
Bibliotheca Indica.
Fifty-two fasciculi were published during the year, of which seven-
teen were in the Arabic-Persian, and thirty-five in the Sanscrit Series.
They belong to twenty-two different works, of which four are in the
Arabic-Persian, and eighteen in the Sanskrit Series. There was one
new publication,—the Maasir-ul- Umara,—in the former Series, whilst in
the latter there were five new publications, viz., Ashta Sahasrika Prajna
Pdramitdé, Madana Parijata, Nyaya Vartikam, Varaha Purana, and Insti-
tutes of Pardgara (Hnglish translation) : the last being complete in one
fasciculus.
20 Annual [eport. [ Fup.
In the annual report of the preceding year it had been estimated
that 45 fasciculi would be published in the course of the ensuing year,
at a probable cost of Rs. 18,045. The actual out-turn has been, as
stated, 52 fasciculi. The expenditure out of the Oriental Publication
Fund during the year amounted to Rs. 16,987-3-4, which sum includes
Printing charges for 37 fascicuh, and Editing charges for 45 fasciculi,
and gives an average cost of Rs. 376 per fasciculus. For the year 1888
the out-turn may be reckoned at 50 fasciculi. These, at the above
average rate, will cost Rs. 18,800. The average annual income calcu-
lated on the receipts of the last five years is Rs. 13,081, which gives
an excess of estimated expenditure over average income amounting
to Rs. 5,719. Towards meeting this excess there is a Balance of
Rs. 12,368. This balance will have to meet a further charge of
Rs. 1,500, if a proposal that has been made to purchase a set of the
Tibetan Tangyur in block-print, is carried out.
Of the following works of which fasciculi have appeared in previous
years no fasciculi were published during the year under review :—
1. TapagAt-1-NAsiri (Index of persons and places). 2. Prikrita
LaksHana (Hnglish translation and notes). 3. KArtawrra (introduc-
tion). 4. Susrura Samurré (English translation). 5. Munrakuas-
uL-Tawdrika (English translation). 6. ApastamBaA Srauta Strra
(Text). 7% Pardsara Suerri (Text). 8. Manu Tixs Samarana (Text).
9. Prirumdsa Rdsau (Text). 10. Laurra-Vistara (English transla-
tion).
Of the following works sanctioned in previous years no fasciculi
have as yet appeared :-—
1. BrinappevatdA (Text). 2. Pr&xrrrdpnydva (Text and transla-
tion). 3. CHaraKa (English translation with notes). 4. NagAtv-un
Farazpaq-Jurir (Text with English translations in prose and verse.)
Oo. Kata Vivexa (Text). 6. Vupdnra Strra Commentaries on,
(Text). 7 Yoornf Tantra (Text). 8. Karana Granrua (Text).
9. Munraxuas-ut-Tawdrikn Vol. I. (English translation). 10.
TAs-uL MaAdstr (Text). 11. TArixu-1-Wassar (Text). 12. TArixu-
1-YAmini. (Hnglish translation with notes). 13. JNAré Doarmaxatud
and VirAka Surra (Text). 14. Sappuarma Poyparixa (Text). 15.
Sat-Sai (Text), 16. Gapya Kusum4nsau1 (Text). 17. Au Tasrrzi’s
Commentary (Text). 18. MArkanpgya Purdya (English translation).
SvayamBHu Purdna (Text). 19. Bavupudyaniya Sraura Strra and
Hrranyakest Sraura Surra (Text). 20. Apvarra Brauma Srpput
(Text), 21. AntruppHa’s Commentary (Text). 22. TuzaK-1-Jundn-
aint (Text). 23, TAriku-1-Firoz Sudui (Text).
1888. ] Annual Report. 21
The following new works have been sanctioned during the year
for publication :—
A. Arabic-Persian Series.
1. Madstr-vL-Umard: Text, to be edited by Maulavi' Abdur Rahim.
2. Ain-1-AxBari: English Translation (to be a continuation of
that begun by Mr. Blochmann) by Lieut.-Col. Jarrett.
3. RrvAz-us-Sandrin: Text and English Translation, by Maulavi
"Abdul Haq ’Abid and Dr. Hoernle.
B. Sanskrit Series.
1. Commentary on the NyAyavinpu by Dnarmorrarscngeya, to be
edited by Professor P. Peterson.
The Tibetan Text of this work is to be published pari passu with
the Sanskrit.
2. BRIHADDHARMA Purana: Text, to be edited by Pandit Hara-
prasad Shastri.
3. BopnisatvAvapAna Kanpanatd by Kshemendra: to be edited by
Babu Sarat Chandra Das. This work will be published with the San-
skrit and Tibetan Texts in juxtaposition.
The following is a detailed list of the publications issued during
1887.
A. Arabic-Persian Series.
1. IsApAu, edited by Maulavi Abdul Hai of the Calcutta Madrasa.
Nos. 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 263, (Old Series) Fasc. XXXIV, XXXVI,
XXXIX. Vol. II. Nos. 10, 11, 12, and Fasc. XX XIII, XX XV, XXXVII.
Vol. LIT. Nos. 12,13, 14. Total siz fascicull.
2. Axparnéman oF AsuL Fazu. The publication of this great
work has now been completed under the editorship of Maulavi Abdur
Rahim of the Calcutta Madrasah. He took up the work on the death of
Maulavi Aga Ahmed Ali, under whose superintendence the first twenty-
four fasciculi were published. It is needless to expatiate on the merits
of the Akbarnamah, or on the great importance of having a correct
edition of it. The publication of the Lucknow edition is due to tke
munificence of the Raja of Pattiala, but unfortunately, says Professor
Dowson, its literary value is by no means commensurate with the
money expended upon it. The present edition has been prepared from
ten MSS. of which the editor gives an account in his preface. He
also pays there a well-merited tribute to the memory of Professor
Blochmann, through whose influence and exertions the work was under-
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taken. In a preface to the 3rd volume the editor states that the Akbar-
ndmah up to the 47th year of Akbar’s reign is the work of Abul Fazl,
and that the continuation to the end of the reign is by Mahdabat-’Ali
Khan. This writer is not mentioned by Sir Henry Elliot in his account
of the Akbarn4mah in Vol. VI. The supplement to the Akbarnimah
which he quotes is the Takmila-i-Akbarnamah by Mazat-Ulla. Index
to Vol. III. Total one fasciculus.
3. Madsir-uL-Umard, or Memoirs of Nobles, by Nawdb Samsim-ud-
Dowld Shah Nawaz Khan, edited by Maulavi Abdur Rahim of the Cal-
cutta Madrasah. Professor Dowson says of this work that it may be
called “The Peerage of the Mughal Empire.” It is a biographical
dictionary of the “ pillars of the empire” from Akbar’s time down to
the latter part of the 18th century. It is a modern work, for the author
lived till 1757, when he was killed at Aurangabad in the Deccan by the
soldiers of Bussy. But the author was a man of much research and
consulted many authorities. His book has been much used by Professor
Blochmann in drawing up his accounts of Akbar’s gardens (vide his
translation of the Ain-i-Akbari, p. 308 note), and Professor Dowson
remarks that the Madsir must always hold its place as one of the most
valuable books of reference for the student of Indian History. The
real name of the author is Abdu-r-Razzik, Sams4m-ud-Dowla &e.
being his titles. The work was completed and brought down to 1780 by
his son Abdul Hai. Both father and son held high office in Hyderabad.
An interesting account of the work and of its authors will be found
in Dr. Rieu’s Catalogue of the Persian MSS. in the British Museum
Vol. I, 339. See also Elliot’s History of India, Vol. VIII, 187. Nos.
623, 628, 634, 637. Fasc. I. I. HI. 1V. Total four fasciculi.
4, Zararnkuan by Maulana Sharfuddin ’Ali of Yazd, edited by
Maulavi Muhammed Jlahdad. The Zafarnamah, or Book of Victory, is
the history of the exploits of Timur. It was used by Gibbon, (in the
French translation of Petis de La-Croix), who says of Sharfuddin that
his Geography and Chronology are wonderfully accurate, and that he
may be trusted for public facts, theugh he servilely praises the virtue
and fortune of his hero. An account of the Zafarnimah and numerous
extracts from it will be found in Elliot, VIII, 478—522. See also
Catalogue of Persian MSS. in the B. M.1, 173. Nos. 604, 610, 616,
Vol. I. Fase. VII, VIII, 1X. Nos. 624, 638, 636, Vol. II. Fase. I, II, III.
Total sia fasciculh.
B. Sanskrit Series.
5. Asurasknasrikf PrasNf PXramiré, or, the Transcendental
Knowledge of the Buddhists in 8,000 slokas, edited by Dr. Rajendralala
1888. ] Annual Report. 23
Mitra, contains the substance of the metaphysical speculations of the
Mahayana school of the Buddhists. It is one of the nine canonical
works of the Bauddhas of Nepal. A translation of this work forms the
20th volume of the Sher-chin section of the Kah-Gyur collection of the
Thibetan Buddhist works. The work gives much interesting informa-
tion as to the difference between the Mahayana and the Hinaydna
schools of the Buddhists of the Middle Ages. Nos. 603, 620, 629—
Fasc. I, IJ, III. Total three fasciculi.
6. KAta MApuava, edited by Pandit Chandra Kanta Tarkaélankar,
is an astrological treatise by Madhavacharyya, the great commentator of
the Vedas, for the determination of the proper time for various rituals
of the Hindus. No. 622. Fasc. III. Total one fasciculus.
7. Karak Sarir Sicara, translated by Mr. Tawney. This work
is said to be a metrical abridgment of a much larger prose work entitled
Brihat Kathé by Kshemendra, now lost. The Katha Sarit Sagara was
compiled by Somdeva of Kashmir. This fasciculus brings Mr. Tawney’s
labours to a close. It contains an alphabetical index of proper names
and subjects in the work. No. 615, Fasc. XV. Total one fasciculus.
8. Mapana Prisha, edited by Pandit Madhusidan Smritiratna,
is a well known digest of Hindu law compiled during the reign of Madana
Pal of Delhi, said in the work to belong to the Kashtha dynasty. No.
641. Fasc. I. Total one fasciculus.
9. Nydya VArrixa, edited by Pandit Vindhyeswari Prasad
Dube, is a commentary on the Vatsyayana bhashya on the aphorisms of
the Nydya school of Philosophy. It was something like a missing link
in the long chain of commentaries on the Ny4éya Sutras, and the publi-
cation of this rare work will supply a long-felt desideratum. No. 625,
Fasc. I. Total one fasciculus.
| 10. Mima’nsa’ Darsana, edited by Mahamahopadhyaya Mahesha-
chandra Nydyaratna, C. I. E., with the bhashya commentary by
Sabara Svami, has been finished in the last fasciculus issued. It
now only remains to add a preface from the pen of the learned editor to
complete the edition. No. 605, Fasc. XIX. Total one fasciculus.
11. Tarrrrrrya Samurra’, or the Samhita of the Black Yayur Veda,
edited by the same learned editor, with the commentary of Madhava-
charyya. This fasciculus brings the work down to the end of the 19th
Anuvaka of the 5th Prapathaka of the 5th Kanda. No. 617, Fasc.
XXXIV. Total one fasciculus.
12. Ingrrtures or Para’sgara, translated by Pandit Krishna Kamal
Bhattacharyya, treats of the Achdra and Prayaschitta of the Hindus.
The work is complete in one fasciculus. No. 611, Fasc. I. Total one
fasciculus.
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13. Vara'na Pura’ya, edited by Pandit Hrishikesh Shastri, is one
of the eighteen Mahdpuranas. It contains an account of the world as
given by the Mahé Vardha or the Great Boar Incarnation to the goddess
Earth, while raising her from the bottom of the sea by means of his im-
mense tusks. Nos. 601, 681, 635, 640, Fasc. I. LI, ITI. IV. Total four
fasciculi.
14. The Agva-Vaipyaka, a treatise on the diseases of the Horse.
Compiled by Jayadatta Sari, edited by Kaviréj Umesachandra Gupta
Kaviratna. Nos. 597, 598, Fase. 1V, V. Total two fasciculi.
15. CHaturvarca Cuinta’MANI, by Hemadri, edited by Pandits
Yogesavara Smritiratna and Kamakhydnatha Tarkaratna, Nos. 607,
621, Fasc. XVI, XVII. Total two fasciculi.
16. Ktrma Pourdya, edited by Pandit Nilmani Mukhopddhaya,
Professor, Presidency College, Nos. 602, 618, 642, Fasc. III, IV, V.
Total three fasciculi.
17. Niruxta, with commentaries, edited by Pandit Satyavrata
Samasrami. Nos. 613, 626, Vol. IV, Fasc. III, IV. Total two fasciculi.
18. Sanxua’yana Sravta Sdrra, edited by Dr. Alfred Hillebrandt,
Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology in the University of
Breslau, Nos. 606, 638, Vol. I. Fase. IV, V. Total two fasciculi.
19. Tarrva CurntAmant, edited by Pandit Kamakhy4ndtha Tarka-
ratna, Nos. 612, 627, 639, Fasc. VI, VII, VIII. Total three fascieuli.
20. Uva'sacapasa’o, the seventh Anga of the Jains, on the rules of
conduct of Jain laymen; edited by Dr. A. F. Rudolf Hoernle. Nos. 614,
644, Fase, ITI, 1V. Total two fasciculi.
21. Viva’paratNa’KARA, a digest of laws relating to jurisprudence ;
edited by Pandit Dinanatha Vidydlankara, Nos. 599, 619, 630, Fasc. V,
VI, VII. Total three fasciculi.
22. WVrinanna’rapr'ya Purana, edited by Pandit Hrishikega Sastri,
Professor, Sanskrit College, Calcutta, Nos. 600, 632, Total two fasciculi.
List of all Societies, Institutions, §c., to which the Publications of the
Asiatic Society have been sent during the year, or from which Publica-
tions have been received.
# Societies, &c., which have received the Asiatic Society’s publications, and
have sent their publications in return.
+ Societies, &c., which have received the Asiatic Society’s publications, but
have sent none in return.
§ Societies, &c., whose publications have been received, but to which nothing
has been sent in return.
* Allahabad :—Editor, Pioneer.
§ American Philological Association.
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Baltimore :—Johns Hopkins University.
Batavia :—Society of Arts and Sciences.
— :—Maenetic and Meteorological Observatory.
—:—Kon. Natuurkundige Vereeniging in Nederlandsch-Indié.
Berlin :—Royal Academy of Sciences.
——— :—Hntomologischer Verein.
Berne :—Société Suisse d’ Entomologie.
Birmingham :—Birmingham Philosophical Society.
Bombay :—Anthropological Society.
:—Bombay Branch, Royal Asiatic Society.
———-— :—Hditor, Indian Antiquary.
———-— :—Hditor, Times of India.
:—Natural History Society.
Boston :—Natural History Society.
Bordeaux :—L’ Académie Nationale des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et
Arts.
——— :—Société de Géographie Commerciale.
— :—Société Linnéenne.
Brisbane :—Royal Society of Queensland.
Brookville :—Society of Natural History.
Brunswick :—Verein ftir Naturwissenschaft.
Brussels :—L’ Académie Royale des Sciences.
:—Musée Royal d’ Histoire Naturelle de Belgique.
——— :—Société Entomologique de Belgique.
:—Société Royale Malacologique de Belgique.
Buda Pest :—Royal Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Buenos Ayres :—Museo Nacional.
————. :— Academia Nacional de Ciencias de la Republica Argentina.
Calcutta :—Agri-Horticultural Society of India.
— :—Geological Survey of India.
—_———- :—Hditor, Englishman.
—— :— Kditor, Hindu Patriot.
——_——-— :—Hditor, Indian Daily News.
—:—Indian Mirror.
———— :— Indian Museum.
:—Mahommedan Literary Society.
———— :—Public Library.
-:—Survey of India.
— :—Tuttobodhini Shova.
———_—- :— University Library.
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Cambridge :—University Library.
Cassel :—Der Verein fiir Naturkunde.
Cherbourg :—Société Nationale des Sciences Naturelles.
Christiana :—University Library.
Clinton :—Hditor, American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal.
Colombo :—Ceylon Branch, Royal Asiatic Society.
Copenhagen :—La Société Royale des Antiquaires du Nord.
Cuttack :—Cuttack Library.
Danzig :—Naturforschenden Gesellschaft.
Dehra Dun:—Great Trigonometrical Survey.
Dublin :—Royal Dublin Society.
:—Royal Irish Society.
—:—Geological Society of Dublin.
Edinburgh :—Royal Society.
——- :—Scottish Geographical Society.
——--—— :— Botanical Society.
Florence :—Sociéta Italiana di Anthropologia e di Htnologia.
—— :—Sociéta Africana d’ Italia.
Frankfurt :—Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft.
:—Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein.
Geneva :—Société de Physique et d’ Histoire Naturelle.
Genoa :—Museo Civico di Storia Naturale.
Giessen: Oberhessische Gesellschaft fir Natur und Heilkunde.
Graz :—Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein fur Styria.
Hague :—Koninklijk Instituut voor de Taal-Land-en Volkenkunde
van Nederlansch-Indié.
Hamburgh :—Naturhistoriches Museum zu Hamburgh.
:—Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein.
Halle :—Deutsche Morgenlandische Gesellschaft.
—w— :—Die Kais. Leopoldinisch-Carolinische Akademie.
Hamilton :—Hamilton Association (Canada).
Harrisburgh :—Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania.
Havre :—Société de Géographie Commerciale du Havre.
Helsingfors :—Societas pro Flora et Fauna Fennica.
——— :—Société des Sciences de Finlande.
Ithaca (U. 8. A.) :—Cornell University.
Konigsberg :—Die Physikalisch-Oekonomische Gesellschaft.
Lahore :—Editor, Civil and Military Gazette.
~:— Anjuman-i- Panjab.
—-— :— Agricultural Society.
Leyden :—Royal Herbarium.
Liége :—La Société Géologique de Belgique.
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Lille :—Société de Géographie.
Liverpool :—Literary and Philosophical Society.
London
:—Anthropological Institute,
———. :— Hiditor, Academy.
:—Hditor, Athensum.
:—British Museum.
:—Geological Society.
:—Institution of Civil Engineers.
:—Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
:—Hditor, Nature.
:—Linnean Society.
:—Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and i eland.
:—Royal Astronomical Society.
:—Royal Geographical Society.
:—Royal Institution.
:—Royal Microscopical Society.
:—Royal Society.
:—Society of Telegraph Engineers.
:—Statistical Society.
:—Zoological Society.
Lyons :—La Société d’ Agriculture, d’ Histoire Naturelle et des Arts
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Utiles.
:-—Muséum d’ Histoire Naturelle.
:—Musée Guimet.
:—La Société d’ Anthropologie.
:—La Société de Géographie.
:—Literary Society.
:-—Government Central Museum.
Manchester :—Literary and Philosophical Society.
Melbourne :—Royal Society of Victoria.
Mexico
Moscow
Munich
:—Sociedad. Cientifica ‘“* Antonio Alzate.”
:—Société Impériale des Naturalistes.
:—Imperial Society of Amateurs of Natural Sciences, Anthro-
pology and Hthnology.
:—K. Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften.
:—KHditor, Repertorium der Physik.
Naples :—Societa Africana d’ Italia.
Royal Society.
* New Haven :—Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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* Newport (R. I.) :—Natural History Society.
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Oxford :—Bodleian Library.
— :—Indian Institute.
Paris :—La Société de Géographie.
——— :—Société d’ Anthropologie.
—— :—Société Asiatique.
—— :—National Library.
—— :—Société Zoologique.
—— :—Société Académique Indo-Chinoise.
——— :—Institution Ethnographique.
Philadelphia :—Academy of Natural Sciences.
— :—American Philosophical Society.
Pisa :—Societa Toscana di Scienze Naturali.
Prague :—K. K. Sternwarte.
Rio de Janeiro :—Museo Nacional.
Rome :—Societa degli Spettroscopisti Italiani.
:—R,. Accademia dei Lincei.
Santiago :—Sociedad Cientifica Alemana.
St. Petersburgh :—Comité Géologique.
——— -:—Imperial Library.
— :—Société Impériale Russe de Géographie.
— —— :—Académie Impériale des Sciences.
——. :—Hortus Petropolitanus.
San Franciso :—Californian Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Schaffhausen :—Schweizerischen Hntomologischen Gesellschaft.
Shanghai :—North China Branch, Royal Asiatic Society.
Simla :—United Service Institution of India.
Stettin :—Hntomologischen Verein.
Stockholm :—Kongl: Svenska Vetenskaps Academiens.
Sydney :—Royal Society of New South Wales.
:— Linnean Society of New South Wales.
Tokyo :—Imperial University of Japan.
Toronto :—Canadian Institute.
Trieste :—Societa Adriatica di Scienze Naturali.
Turin :—Reale Accademia delle Scienze.
Ulwar :—Ulwar Library.
Vienna :—Anthropologische Gesellschaft.
— :—K. K. Akademie der Wissenschaften.
—-——— :—K. K. Central-anstaltfiir Meteorologie und Erdmagnetismus.
———- :—K. K. Geologische Reichsanstalt.
———=~ :—K. K. Zoologisch-Botanische Gesellschaft.
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* Vienna:—K. K. Naturhistorichen Hofmuseum.
3 — :—Ornithologische Verein.
* Washington :—Commissioners of the Department of Agriculture.
pide -— :—Smithsonian Institution. |
§ —— :—U.S8. Army Signal Service.
’ -— :—United States Geological Survey.
§ ——-— :—U. BS. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
* Wellington :—New Zealand Institute.
* Wiurttemberg :—Natural History Society.
* Yokohama :—Asiatic Society of Japan.
* -:—Deutschen Gesellschaft fiir Natur-und Volkerkunde
Ostasiens.
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ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS OF COUNCIL DURING 1887.
January 27th, Ordinary Meeting.
The names of the five Trustees appointed by the Society under the
new Indian Museum Act, No. IV of 1887, were furnished to the autho-
rities of the Indian Museum with the information that the present list
remained unaffected by the new Act.
On a report from Colonel Waterhouse on the probable cost of print-
ing the Photographs, Maps and Plans connected with Mr. Hoey’s report
on the excavations and exhumations at Sahet Mahet, the estimate of
Rs. 1,050 for executing the work by Collotype, was accepted.
On the recommendation of the President the Zeitschrift fir Hth-
nologie was subscribed for.
A letter from Syud Mahomed Karrar Husain enquiring whether
the Society would purchase any of the MSS. in his Library, a list of
which he forwarded, was referred to Dr. Hoernle and Maulavi
Kabiruddin.
The work of supervising the publication of Atkinson’s Lepidoptera,
undertaken by the late Mr. A. Grote, was entrusted to Mr. W. T.
Blanford, while the remittance made by the Society for the purpose was
made over in deposit to Messrs. Triibner and Co.
Dr. Hoernle submitted a report of his attendance at the Interna-
tional Congress of Orientalists at Vienna on behalf of the Society.
On a proposal by the Secretary that the Society asks for a Charter
enabling it to confer the title of Fellow of the Asiatic Society, Bengal,
upon its distinguished members, it was ordered that the old papers on
the question, when it was raised before, be brought out.
On the motion of the President, a resolution was passed “ that the
Society in its corporate capacity present an address to Her Majesty on
30 Annual Report. [ Fu.
the occasion of the Jubilee, with a suitably bound copy of the Centenary
Review,’ and a Sub-Committee, consisting of the President, Mr.
Blanford, Mr. Medlicott and the General Secretary, was appointed to
carry out the resolution.
An application from Maulavi Abdur Rahim to be allowed to edit
the Alam-drd-i-Abbast was referred to the Philological Committee.
On a letter from Mr. H. Gay stating that Mr. R, Taylor was willing to
present the Society with a set of the Oriental Series of Facsimiles of
MSS. published by the Paleographical Society, Mr. Gay was desired
to convey the thanks of the Council to Mr. Taylor for his offer, and to in-
form him that the Society already possessed a set.
The Assistant Secretary was authorized to spend a moderate sum
in iluminating the Society’s building during the Jubilee celebration.
February 24th, Ordinary Meeting.
On a letter from Dr. H. Haupt the Government of India was asked
to place the University of Giessen on the list of institutions to which
the Catalogue of Sanskrit MSS. is to be sent.
A copy of the Vienna Oriental Journal, a new quarterly publica-
tion, edited by the Directors of the Oriental Institute of the University
of Vienna, was subscribed for.
The several Committees for the current year were appointed.
Mr. A. Simson and Nawab Abdul Latif Bahadur were appointed
to be Members of the Council.
Dr. Hoernle reported that he had resumed charge of the Philologi-
cal Secretaryship from Mr. Beveridge.
An offer from Maulavi Khuda Baksh, Khdin Bahadur, to place -
Rs. 500 at the Society’s disposal towards the publication of a Persian
work by himself entitled Kanzul Lubab fi Marifatil Kiitéib i wal Kiuttab,
was declined.
Messrs. Meugens and King were re-appointed Auditors for the year.
March 31st, Ordinary Meeting.
An enquiry from the Honorary Secretary, Executive Committee,
Jubilee of the Queen-Hmpress, whether the Society would wish their
address to be forwarded in the casket in which the addresses from
public bodies and associations were to be forwarded to Her Majesty, and
if so, whether the Society would contribute Rs. 100 towards the cost,
was answered in the negative.
At the suggestion of the Natural History Secretary, it was resolved
to make a representation to the Government of India pointing out that
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little had been done towards a systematic investigation of the Zoology
of the Indian Seas in connexion with the survey of the coasts.
A substantial reduction was effected through the Natural History
Secretary in the rates charged by the Baptist Mission Press for printing
the Proceedings and Journals.
A copy of a reprint, with considerable additions, of the Sabda
Kalpa Druma was subscribed for.
A new edition of the Library Rules was ordered to be printed.
April 28th, Ordinary Meeting.
On Mr. H. B. Medlicott resigning his seat on the Council on leaving
India, Dr. W. King was appointed to succeed him.
An offer from the Société des Naturalistes de la Nouvelle Russie,
Odessa, for an exchange of publications was declined.
_ An exchange of publications (Proceedings and Journal, Pt. II,)
with the College of Science, Imperial University of Japan, was
sanctioned.
An exchange of publications (Journal, Part II,) with the Natur-
wissenschaftlichen Verein, Hamburg, was sanctioned.
An exchange of publications (Journal, Part I,) with the Literature
College, Imperial University of Japan, was sanctioned.
An offer from Pandit Haraprasid Shastri to edit the Svyambhu
Purana was referred to the Philological Committee, and it was resolved
that Professor Cowell be asked to procure for the Society a loan of two
MSS., of the work from the Cambridge University Library.
In accordance with the minutes of the Philological Committee, in
circulation, Maulavi Abd-ur-Rahim was allowed to withdraw his appli-
cation to edit the Alam-Ard-i-Abbdsi, and was appointed to edit the
Maasir-ul-Umara instead.
A grant of Rs. 2,428 was sanctioned for renewing all the decayed
beams and burgahs in the roof of the Society’s building, and for half-
terracing the roof.
Read a letter from Messrs. Triibner and Co. acknowledging the
receipt from Mrs. Sterling, executrix to the estate of the late Mr. A.
Grote, of the sum of £129-8-9, and forwarding receipts for a further
sum of £32-7-9 paid in 1882, together making up the sum of £161-16-6,
that had been remitted to Mr. Grote in September last on account of
the publication of Atkinson’s Lepidoptera.
Mr. A. Pedler was appointed Treasurer vice Mr. Eliot proceeding to
Simla; Mr. Pedler was also appointed a Trustee of the Indian Museum
vice Mr. H. F. Blanford, proceeding to England.
32 Annual Report. [ Fus.
May 26th, Ordinary Meeting.
An exchange of publications (Proceedings and Journals) including
the back numbers from 1866 to 1886, as far as available, with the Zoolo-
gical and Anthropological-Ethnographical Museum of Dresden, was
sanctioned.
An application from the Verein fiir Hrdkunde zw Leipzig for an ex-
change of publications was declined.
On Mr. L. De Nicéville resigning his seat on the Council and on the
Natural History Committee, Mr. J. Beames was asked to accept a seat
on the Council.
A request from Sirddér Lal Triloki Nath Singh that the Council
would be good enough to forward his work on Magic Squares, entitled
Bhuvanesa-anka-prakaga, to Her Majesty the Queen, to whom he had de-
dicated the work, was declined.
A suggestion by General Maclagan whether it would not be an ad-
vantage to revert to the former mode of issuing the Journal on a fixed
date, containing such papers as were ready, with the Proceedings, in-
stead of dividing the Journal into Parts I. and IT., was declined.
A proposal by Babu Asutosh Mukhopadhaya to adopt a new rule
in connection with the rule 24a then under consideration, to the effect
that Foreign members who had compounded, on becoming Resident
members should, after payment of the usual annual contribution for 5
years, be exempted from any further payment, was declined.
An application from Professor W. H. Lowe, Cambridge, to under-
take a translation of the Persian work Khafi Khan on a remuneration
at the rate of 2 shillings to the rupee was declined ; and it was resolved
that any proposal to pay for editing and other work done for the Society
for the Bibliotheca Indica Series in England, at the exchange of 2 shill-
ings per rupee, could not be entertained.
On the General Secretary reporting the receipt from the Collector
under the Land Acquisition Act, of a notice regarding a strip of the
Society’s land about to be taken up under Act X. of 1870 for widening
the foot-path in Park Street, it was resolved that the Secretary appear
before the Collector to defend the Society’s position in the matter, and
to ask for an adequate remuneration to meet the expenses of putting up
a handsome iron railing.
June 30th, Ordinary Meeting.
Read a letter from Mr. J. Beames declining the offer of a seat on
the Council.
Read a letter from the Secretary to the Government of Bengal
acknowledging receipt of the statements showing the receipts and dis-
1888. ] Annual Report. 33
bursements of the Oriental Publication Fund and the Conservation of
Sanskrit MSS., Fund, for 1886, and stating that the Lieutenant-Governor
approved of the manner in which the Government grants in aid of the
Funds had been applied.
Read a letter from the Collector under Act X. of 1870 (an reply to
the General Secretary’s letter under Council orders forwarding a claim
amounting to Rs. 2,460 on behalf of the Society as compensation for
the strip of land required for widening the foot-path in Park Street),
stating that the land, &c., had been valued at Rs. 1,641-0-9, and asking
whether the Council was willing to accept the valuation: Resolved that
the Collector be informed that the Council cannot accept the valuation,
A copy of the Jdtaka-mdla or Bodhisattvdvadana-mdla, to be edited
by Professor Kern was subscribed for.
An enquiry from Professor Garbe whether he could be paid his
honorarium for editing in the Bibliotheca Indica without deducting
exchange, was answered in the negative.
July 28th, Ordinary Meeting.
Read a letter from the Surveyor and Assessor to the Calcutta
Municipal Corporation (in reply to the General Secretary’s letter
asking for a reduction on the assessment of the Society’s premises)
stating that the present assessment could not be disturbed except by
the Appeal Bench at the ensuing revision of the assessment of the ward.
An exchange of publications with the Sociedad Cientifica Alemana,
Santiago de Chilé, was sanctioned.
Read a letter from the Collector under Act X. of 1870 (in reply
to the General Secretary’s letter, under Council orders, regarding the
amount of compensation for the land required for widening the foot-
path in Park Street) stating that he was prepared to pay the Society
Rs. 1,819-4-9, and that if this valuation was not accepted, he would
refer the case to Court, and take possession of the land in the first
week of August: Resolved that the Collector be informed that the
Council cannot accept this valuation.
An application from Professor P. Peterson, with the minutes of
the Council in circulation thereon, for editing the Commentary on the
Nydyavindu by Dharmottarachérya was referred to the Philological
Committee.
On the recommendation of the Philological Secretary an increase
of pay to the Pandit, from forty to fifty rupees, as conditionally pro-
mised on his appointment, was sanctioned with effect from Ist August.
An estimate from the contractor repairing the building, amounting
to Rs. 432-6-8 for replacing another beam subsequently found defective,
34, Annual Report. [Fnp.
for sundry petty repairs, and for hire of tarpaulins was referred to the
General Secretary,
On the recommendation of the Finance Committee, Rs. 49-12-0
standing against the name of the late Mr. J.C. Douglas, ordinary
member, and Rs. 28 against the name of Col. Godwin-Austen, ordinary
member, elected non-subscribing member, were written off.
August 25th, Ordinary Meeting.
An exchange of publications with the Societa Africana d’ Italia,
Naples, was sanctioned.
One copy of Sdstraprakdsa to be published in monthly parts was
subscribed for.
On a representation by the Superintendent, Baptist Mission
Press, as to the difficulty of procuring a fresh supply of the colored
paper used for the cover of the Proceedings, it was left to the Gene-
ral Secretary to arrange for the present.
Read a letter from the Collector under Act X. of 1870 (in ee to
the General Secretary’s letter under Council orders) stating that as
the total length of wall to be dismantled did not exceed 120 feet in-
stead of being 180 feet as at first stated by him, he was now prepared,
after discussing the matter with Dr. Mahendralal Sarkar, to pay the
Society Rs. 2,116 in satisfaction of all claims: Resolved that the
Collector’s offer be accepted.
On an application from the Provincial Museum Committee,
Lucknow, for copies of certain publications of the Society, and request-
ing that the Secretary of the Provincial Committee be reckoned as a
member of the Society, it was ordered that the publications of the So-
ciety, as far as available for presentation, be given, and that the Secre-
tary be informed that the rules of the Society did not admit of his re-
quest as regards membership being granted.
Professor P. Peterson was appointed to edit the Commentary on
the Nydyavindu by Dharmottaracharya.
A letter from Dr. Hoernle enquiring whether advertisements, other
than those of the Society’s own publications, can be inserted in the
Society’s publications, was referred to the General Secretary for enquiry
as to rates.
October 6th, Ordinary Meeting.
On an application from Professor Aufrecht for the loan for three
months of the Sanskrit MS. Kshdératarangin¢ in the Government Col-|
lection, which he wished to examine to try to elucidate some obscure
points in the Dhdtupitha, it was ordered that the cost of making a
copy of the MS. be ascertained.
1888. ] Annual Report. oD
Read the minutes of the members of the Council, in circulation,
relating to the erection of an iron railing to replace that portion of the
wall of the Society’s premises to be dismantled by the Municipality.
The General Secretary also submitted four tenders with designs re-
ceived in answer to an advertisement for putting up 160 feet of iron
railing and a pair of iron gates. Resolved that it would be desirable
to extend the railing along the entire frontage, and that a Sub-Com- |
mittee consisting of Colonel Waterhouse, Mr. Pedler and the General
Secretary, be appointed to make the best possible arrangements to
secure this.
Read the minutes of the Philological Committee, in circulation, ona
memorandum by Mr. Beveridge on the following points: (a) that an
Index should be prepared to Major Raverty’s translation of the Tabaqat-
i-Nasiri (b) that the preface to the text of Khafi Khan had never been
written and (c) that there are errors in Professor Lowe’s translation of
the Muntakhab-ul-Tawartkh.
Read the minutes of the Philological Committee in circulation re-
garding the purchase of a complete set of Block-prints of the Tibetan
Tangyur in 225 volumes at a cost of Rs. 3,000, including cost of car-
riage from Tibet. Resolved that the Government of Bengal be applied
to for half the purchase money, and for permission - meet the second
half out of the Oriental Publication Fund.
On the minutes of the Philological Committee, in circulation,
Colonel Jarrett was asked to undertake a translation of the Ain-i-Akbari
at the rate of Rs. 3 a page.
The Treasurer reported the receipt of a cheque for Rs. 2,116 from
the Collector under Act X of 1870 for the strip of the Society’s land
taken up at the cost of the Municipality for widening the foot-path in
Park Street, being the amount of compensation accepted by the
Council.
On the motion of Nawab Abdul Latif, a Sub-Committee was ap-
pointed to examine and report on the damage said to have been caused
to some of the MSS. by damp during the repairs.
October 27th, Ordinary Meeting.
An exchange of publications (Proceedings) with the Sociedad
Cientifica “‘ Antonio Alzate,” Mexico, was sanctioned.
Read the minutes of the Philological Committee, in circulation, on a
memorandum by Mr. Beveridge pointing out defects in the arrange-
ments for publishing text editions of Persian works in the Bibliotheca
Indica.
Read the minutes of the Philological Committee on the question of
the publication of the text of the Riydz-ush-Saldiin by Ghulim Husain.
36 Annual Report. ~{ Fu.
On the report of the Philological Secretary as to the cost of making
a copy of the Kshtratarangint it was ordered that a copy be made and
carefully examined.
Read the report of the Sub-Committee appointed to arrange for the
erection of an iron railing along the frontage of the premises: also a
letter from Messrs. Mackintosh, Burn and Co. offering to erect an iron
railing with two pairs of iron gates, a new Durwan’s lodge and the
necessary carriage road-way, in exchange for a piece of land facing
Chowringhee Road, containing about six and a half cottahs: Resolved
that Messrs. Mackintosh, Burn and Co.’s offer cannot be entertained ;
and that complete estimates for the railing with one and with two
pairs of gates respectively, together with a memorandum showing the
funds available, be drawn up.
Read the report of the Sub-Committee appointed to enquire into
the damages to the MSS. through damp, to the effect that the damages
were slight.
On an application from Babu Sarat Chandra Das that the Lama
Sherab Gyatso, who was coming to Calcutta to aid him in the compila-
tion of a philosophical and technical dictionary of Tibetan, may be per-
mitted to reside in the Society’s premises for three months, permission
was given, if a suitable place was available.
November 24th, Ordinary Meeting.
A set of Photographs from the Paintings at Ajunta, executed be-
tween March 1882 and February 1884 was received from the Govern-
ment of India.
Colonel Jarrett expressed his willingness to undertake the transla-
tion of the Ain-i-Akbarit in continuation of that by the late Mr.
Blochmann.
A copy of a French-Arabic Dictionary by E. Gasselin, Consul
General for France, was subscribed for.
A copy of the International Archives fiir Hthnographie to be publish-
ed under the auspices of the Musée Nationale d’ Hthnographie de Leide,
was subscribed for.
A copy of the Prithirdja Rasau, edited by Pandit M, L. Pandia, was
subscribed for.
Read a letter from the Surveyor and Assessor to the Municipal
Corporation (in reply to the General Secretary’s letter asking for a
reduction) stating that the assessment of the Society’s building had
been reduced from Rs. 400 to Rs. 350 per mensem, with effect from the
current quarter.
Read the minutes of the Council in circulation on the question of
1888.1 Annual Report. 37
the erection of an iron railing: also, the General Secretary submitted
an estimate by a Contractor for Rs. 4,348 for putting up an iron
railing, two pairs of gates, a Durwan’s lodge, and making a new carriage
roadway: Resolved that the Treasurer and the General Secretary be
empowered to contract at a rate not exceeding the above sum for the
whole work, as detailed.
Maulavi Abd-ul-Haq Abid was appointed to edit the text of the
Riydz-ush-Saldtin, by Ghulam Husain.
Professor Cowell’s proposal to prepare a translation of Khafi-Khan
was sanctioned.
Pandit Haraprasad Shastri was appointed to edit the Brihaddharma
Purana.
Babu Sarat Chandra Das was appointed to edit the Bodhisattva-
vadéna Kalpalatd in Sanskrit and Tibetan.
A MS. of the Riydz-ush-sh’ward—a history of Persian Poetry (in-
complete) was purchased.
An examination of the beams and burgahs on the ground floor was
ordered.
December 29th, Ordinary Meeting.
An exchange of publications with the Linnean Society of New
South Wales was sanctioned.
A copy of a forthcoming work by Dr. EH. Bonavia on the cultivated
Oranges and Lemons of India and Ceylon was subscribed for.
An offer from the Olub de Hngenharia of Rio de Janeiro for an
exchange of publications was declined.
A copy of a forthcoming work entitled Lécherches Anthropologiques
duns le Caucase, was subscribed for.
On a letter from Mr. F. HE. Pargiter offering to resign the work of
translating the Markandeya Purana, on the ground that he would be
unable to furnish annotations as pointed out by the Philological Secre-
tary, it was resolved that Mr. Pargiter be asked to publish a translation
without notes.
The University of Breslau was placed on the list of institutions
entitled to receive the Bibliotheca Indica publications.
The General Secretary reported the result of his enquiries as to
the rates charged for advertisements by other publishers.
The Contractor’s Bill for Rs. 2,428 as sanctioned in April last,
was passed.
The following amounts were ordered to be written off :—Rs. 9,
standing against the name of the late Babu Girijabhusan Mukherji
ordinary member: Rs. 90 and Rs. 77 standing against the names of
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38 Address. [Frs.
Sirdar Gurdyal Singh and Mr. A. E. Medlycott, respectively, ordinary
members, defaulters under rule 38.
A letter of condolence on the illness of Dr. Rajendralal Mitra was
sent to his son.
The Report having been read the President invited the Meeting to
put any questions or offer any remarks which any member might think
necessary in connection therewith.
No remarks having been offered the President moved the adoption
of the Report. The motion was unanimously carried.
The Presipent then addressed the Meeting as follows :
Address.
The Society.—In the explanation of the affairs of the Society, read
by our General Secretary, you will find a full account of the manner in
which the trust committed to us by you has been managed during the
past year. We have again to state that our income just about balances
our expenditure, and this is a matter for congratulation, since the
quantity of our publications has been more than the average, and, I am
glad to say, has also kept up to the high standard attained by the
Society’s Journal. Before reviewing the work accomphshed during the
year, it affords me great pleasure to again bring to your notice the
valuable services rendered by the officers of the Society. Mr. H. M.
Percival, the General Secretary, Mr. J. Wood-Mason, the Natural
History Secretary, Dr. Hoernle, the Philological Secretary, Mr. J. Eliot
and Mr. A. Pedler as Treasurers, have all devoted themselves to the
work entrusted to them with the result that you may rest assured
that your affairs are well administered. I would ask you therefore for
a vote of thanks to the office-bearers mentioned for their voluntary
services during the year 1887. (Carried unanimously.)
Obituary.—Year by year we have to announce the loss of members
who have been active contributors to the Society’s Journal or who have
aided its objects in other ways. The obituary for 1887 records the
deaths of the Honourable Sir Ashley Eden, Colonel G. C. De Prée, Mr.
J. ©. Douglas, Mr. T. G. H. Moncrieffe, Lieut.-Col. T. C. Plowden, and
Babi Girijabhisan Mukharji. I need not recall to your minds the
services of Sir Ashley Hiden, for there is hardly any important institution
or public movement in Bengal during the last thirty years with which
he had not been more or less connected. Mr. J. C. Douglas is known
to you for his paper on Indian bees; and his efforts in attempting the
acclimatisation of Italian bees in India. I have also to record the
1888. ] Address. 39
death of Babi Ramdas Sen of Murshidabad, known for his work on
Indian antiquities entitled Aitihdsik Rahasya, and his fine collection of
manuscripts. Also of Babi Raékhal Das Halddr, whose edition of the
Naga Vamsdval¢ of Beniram, a poet of Chutiyé Nagpur, and papers on the
ethnology and antiquities of that District, form valuable contributions
to our knowledge of a little known tract.
Publications :—Journal.—For the first part of our Journal which is,
as you know, devoted to philology and literature, we have had, during
the year 1887, a number of papers which have either already been pub-
lished or will appear during the current year. Amongst them is one
on the ‘ Safwi dynasty of Persia’ by Mr, E. H. Oliver; Kashmiri riddles
by the Rev. J. H. Knowles; the ‘era of Lachhman Sen’, and ‘the
Mother of Jahangir’ by Mr. H. Beveridge; ‘ Materials for a literary
history of India’ by Mr. G. A. Grierson; ‘On the couplets or ‘ batts’
on the coins of Shah Nuru-d-din Jahangir’ by Mr. C. J. Rodgers, and,
by the same author, some critical remarks on the notes on the coins
mentioned by Major Raverty in his translation of the Tabaqdt-i-Nasirt.
Babu Sarat Chandra Das gives an interesting digest of the Tibetan work
on geography called the Dsam Ling Clyesha, and another on ‘ the sacred
and ornamental characters of Tibet.? Dr. Fuhrer publishes three
grants of Govindachandra Deva of Kanauj, dating from the twelfth
century, and also the Kudarkhot inscription of Takshadatta, and Dr.
Rajendralala Mitra, a donative inscription of Vidyadhara Bhanja, an
Orissa Raja. We have papers on the ruins at Nagari in Mewar by
Kavira} Syamal Das, describing a tower mentioned by Tod as ‘ Akbar’s
lamp’: on Buddha’s Shadow-cave near Prabhasa by Mr. Cockburn:
on the excavated temple at Nurpur in Kangra by Mr. C. J. Rodgers:
on the city of Hirat, by Captain Yate, and on ancient mounds in the
Quetta district by Major J. F. Garwood, R. E. Mr. W. H. P. Driver,
also, has given us ethnological notes on the Asuras, Birijiyas, Bir’hors
and Khariyas, aboriginal tribes of the Chutiyaé Nagpur division.
In Part II of the Journal, we have a paper on the mammals and
birds collected by Capt. Yate during his service with the Afghan Boun-
dary Commission, prepared by Dr. Scully, and also one on the Chiroptera
of Nepal by the same writer. Mr. J. Baly describes a new phytophagous
coleopteron found feeding on rice in the Chittagong district, and Mr.
K. T. Atkinson continues his notes on Indian Rhynchota, the third part
of the catalogue of species falling under the sub-order Heteroptera
having been read. M. EH. Simon gives us two valuable papers on
the Arachnida of the Indian Museum collected in Tavoy and the
Andamans. Dr. G. Giles has two others on Amphipoda from the Bay
of Bengal ; Mr. Wood-Mason, one on a new crustacean belonging to the
40 Address. [ Fue.
Brachyurous family Rananide; and Mr. H. J. Jones one ‘on nodular stones
dredged from 675 fathoms of water off Colombo.’ All these last are chiefly
based upon materials furnished by the Marine Survey party under
Commander A. Carpenter, R. N., who himself gives a paper ‘on the
mean temperature of deep sea waters in Bengal.’ Mr. Elson, of the
Pilot service, has a paper ‘on observed changes in the density of sea-
water coincident with and due to aerial disturbances, and consequent
alterations of baric pressure over adjacent sea areas.’ Mr. H. I. Blan-
ford gives an interesting and suggestive paper ‘on the Influence of Indian
forests on rain-fall,’ and Dr. Prain brings to notice the hot-springs of
the Namba forest. Dr. G. King, F. R. 8., has three papers on new
species of Ficus from New Guinea and Sumatra, and the species of
Loranthus indigenous to Perak, and Dr. Barclay one on the commoner
uredines of the neighbourhood of Simla. Babu Asutosh Mukhopa-
dhyaya contributes four valuable mathematical papers, on the differential
equation of a trajectory, Mongé’s differential equation to all conics, and
on plane analytical geometry, nor must I omit to mention Dr. Scully’s
paper on the effects of bismuth on the ductility of silver, which has been
reprinted at home in the ‘ Chemical News,’ and that on neolithic and
paleolithic finds in Southern India, by Mr. R. B. Foote.
In the Proceedings, the discussion on the term ‘ Hkotibhava’ opens
with a letter from Professor Max Miiller, in which he practically concurs
in the view held by Dr. Rajendralala Mitra as to its meaning. Contribu-
tions to the subject were subsequently made by Babu Sarat Chandra Das,
from Tibetan sources, as to the derivation, and also by Mr. F. S. Growse,
and Dr. Hoernle. Pandit Mahesachandra Nyayaratna has some notes on
the authorship of the Sanskrit drama Mrichchhakatikd, popularly ascribed
to Raja Stdraka, but by Professor Pischel to Dandin, a poet who lived in
the seventh or eighth century of ourera. Dr. Mitra also gives a notice of
Mandlik’s edition of Manu with the seven commentaries, and Dr. Hoernle,
an account of the seventh Oriental Congress held at Vienna in 1886.
Amongst the other minor papers of importance, mention may be
made of Mr. H. F. Blanford’s note on the rain-fall in the Carnatic, Mr.
K. T. Atkinson’s note on an insect destructive to rice in the Tinnevelly
district, and descriptions of four insects belonging to the genus Chry-
socoris, Hahn, which are new to science; and Mr. de Nicéville’s
description of a new satyrid. In addition, we have the usual reports
on the coins added to the Society’s cabinet, which, however, do not
contain much of novelty, and notes on some inscriptions which are
of little more than local interest, as well as remarks by the Rev. T. Tracy
on Pandyan coins, and a communication from Col. Biddulph on rock-
cut caves in Chitral. Altogether the work of the year as shown in our
Journal and Proceedings is a fair result for voluntary effort in India.
ee ee ee ee
1888.] Address, Al
Bibliotheca Indica.—Fifty-two numbers of the Bibliotheca Indica
series were issued during the year, of which 35 belong to the Sanskrit
division and 17 to the Arabic-Persian division. The former represent
eighteen separate works, and the latter four, including an index to the
third volume of the Akbarnadmah. We have sanctioned, during the year,
the publication in the Sanskrit series of the text of the Sanskrit Buddhist
work Dharmottaracharya’s commentary on the Nydyabindu, to be edited
by Professor Peterson, and the Brihad Dharma Purana to be edited
by Pandit Hara Prasada Sastri, also the Bodhisattvivadina Kalpalatd
with a Tibetan version, of which I shall have more to say hereafter.
In the Persian series, we have arranged for a translation of the
remainder of the Avn-t-Akbart by Colonel Jarrett, so well begun by
the late Professor Blochmann, and of the Muntakhabu-l-Lubab, better
known as the Tarikh-i-Khafi Khan, by Professor Cowell; the text and a
translation of the Midzu-s-saladiin by Maulavi Abdul Hak Abid jointly
with Dr. Hoernle; and the text of the Ma’dsiru-l-Umara edited by
Maulavi Abdur Rahim, of which four fasciculi have already appeared.
There are, however, still some twenty works for which sanction has been
given, but which have not yet been taken up, and ten of which no part
has issued during the past year.
Tibetan literature.—Last year, I stated that steps had been taken
to furnish aids to those who might be disposed to undertake the study
of Tibetan, and I now have the very great pleasure of placing on the table
the first fasciculus of the first Tibetan manuscript printed in India, due
to the energy and industry of our member, Babu Pratapa Chandra Ghosha.
I trust that it may be the pioneer of a long series of Tibetan issues
from our Bibliotheca, opening up a new field of great philological and
literary interest which has too long been left neglected. The fasciculus
before you contains the commencement of the ‘ Shes-rab-kyi—pha-rol-
tu-phyin-pa (by contraction ‘ Sher-phyin ’ and pronounced ‘ Sher-chin’),
which is itself a translation made in the ninth century, into Tibetan,
from the Sanskrit of the Buddhistic work entitled Prajiid-paramita
forming, according to Csoma de Koros, the second division of the Kd-gyar,
or Tibetan Tripitaka, a collection of the sacred books of Tibet, translated
from the Sanskrit, and comprising one hundred volumes. ‘There are,
however, twenty-one volumes in this division, of which twelve comprise
the Sher-chin of 100,000 slokas. Of the remainder, eight volumes form
abridgements of more or less authority of the Sher-chin itself, the first
being the 20,000 slokas abridgement, containing however the equivalent
of 25,000 slokas, the next that of 18,000 slokas, the third that of 10,000,
and the last that of 8,000, the Sanskrit text of which, under the name
Ashtaséhasrika Prajnapdranuitd, is now being brought out for us in the
42 Address. [ Fup.
Bibliotheca by Dr. Rajendralala Mitra. This last is taken from Nepalese
manuscripts, and three fasciculi have appeared in 1887. It is also the
first work of its character printed in India, nor has any edition or
translation of it ever been made or attempted, to the best of my know-
ledge, in any Kuropean country. The last volume of the series is entitled
the S’na-ts-hogs, or ‘ the miscellany,’ and comprises treatises of the Sutra
class explanatory of the preceding volumes. The Society has undertaken
the publication of the 100,000 slokas Tibetan text, and, as already
stated, since there is only the one impression available, the efforts of
the editor will be devoted to faithfully reproducing the text as it stands,
leaving it to others hereafter with better materials to make such correc-
tions as will doubtless be found necessary, for there are evident traces
of mistakes made by the engraver. It may be possible also to omit
many of the tedious repetitions with which the work abounds.
The entire work is in prose, and forms twelve volumes, comprising
303 divisions (bam-po), each containing 300 slokas, or rather their equi-
valent in prose, and occupying each about twenty-one leaves of the
block print. In preparing the work for the press, Babu P. C. Ghosha has
separated the several words by spacing them out, and has also arranged
the sentences in paragraphs for more easy reference, and, only so far, has
not followed the original, which gives neither divisions nor para-
graphs. The numbering of the pages in the original is also repro-
duced in the body of the text now printed. The Sher-chin is devoted
to Buddhistic philosophy, theoretical and practical, and, as stated by
Csoma de Ko6rés, contains the psychological, logical, and metaphysical
terminology of the Buddhist faith without entering into or reconciling
conflicting views on any particular subject. There are 108 subjects or
dharmas, regarding which, if any predicate be added to them, affirmative
or negative judgments may be formed. All these contain the sub-
stance of the teachings of the great teacher himself delivered on the
Gridhrakita hill at Rajagriha in Magadha. To the student of the
earlier systems of philosophy and religion in India, the Sher-chin
should be of much interest, for a Buddhistic philosophical work is
very uncommon in India, and most of the information that we possess
on the subject is at second-hand and comes through those who hated
the very name of Buddhist.
In continuation of the same project, our Associate Member, Babi
Sarat Chandra Das, is bringing out for the Society a hitherto un-
published work by the poet Kshemendra, entitled Avadéna Kalpalata,
of which we have the complete Sanskrit with an interlinear Tibetan
version in a manuscript recently acquired from Tibet. It is intended
to publish the Sanskrit and Tibetan texts in parallel columns, the
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first fasciculus is in the press, and I place on the table the proofs of
the first few pages. The manuscript is in verse, and was translated
into Tibetan by Lochava Shonton Dorje and the Indian pandit Laksh-
mikara at the vihdra of Gedun Shidé in Majyul under the orders
of Ponchhen Shakya Ssanpo, ruler of Tibet in 1279 A. D. The blocks
from which the print used was taken were engraved by the direction
of the Dalai Lama Nagwan Lossaii in 1645 A.D. The work consists
of 108 pallavas, of which 107 were written by Kshemendra and one
by his son Somendra. The copies hitherto procured and now deposited
in our library and that of the Cambridge University are imperfect,
containing only the second part of the work, and a fragment of the first,
so that the publication of this Sanskrit and Tibetan version of the
entire poem will restore to Indiaa portion of a valuable Buddhistic work
that has been lost to it for over five hundred years. Kshemendra
is said to have been the court poet of Ananta, Raja of Kashmir, and
undertook the work at the instance of his Buddhist friend Nakka. It is
a veritable store-house of the legends as to Buddha’s life and acts
according to the Mahayana school of Northern Buddhism, and is written
in a simple, elegant style, quite free from the turgid verbosity and
tedious repetition usually characteristic of Buddhist Sanskrit works.
The arrangement of the original and Tibetan version in juxtaposition
should give an impetus to the study of classical Tibetan and afford an
accurate basis for further research.
In my address last year, it was brought to your notice that Babu
Sarat Chandra Das was also engaged upon a vocabulary of Tibetan
Buddhistic terms. Since then he has_ procured several manuscript
dictionaries in Sanskrit-Tibetan and Tibetan-Sanskrit, and it is now
proposed, if it can be arranged, to compile a comprehensive ‘Tibetan-
Sanskrit-English dictionary, with an appendix containing the Sanskrit-
English portion with a reference to the Tibetan equivalent. This work
when completed should serve asa key to the great collections of manu-
scripts in St. Petersburgh, Paris, and London which written, as they are,
in classical Tibetan require more aid to understand them than is afforded
by the dictionaries of Csoma de Korés and Jaschke. It is not unreason-
able to expect from the works, now in progress under your auspices, &
flood of light on the history of northern Buddhism, regarding which our
knowledge at present is so mixed with conjecture. Learned Indian
Buddhist pandits travelled to Tibet and communicated to the Lochavas
there the received interpretation of the phrases and terms used which
were subsequently embodied in the dictionaries prepared in Tibet, and
found in the Bstan-hgyur (Mdo class, Go volume), so that we, perhaps,
could not reasonably expect a more authoritative interpretation than
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that afforded by these manuscripts.* It should be a subject of congratula-
tion to this Society that as it was the first in the field in bringing to the
notice of European scholars the Sanskrit literature of India, it is again
the first to open up this new source of knowledge, clearing away yet
another cloud from the mists overhanging the history of the dark middle
ages of India. I would also notice that the catalogues of the Burmese
and Tibetan manuscripts belonging to the Society have been completed,
the first has been prepared by Moung Hla Oung, and the second by
Babt Pratapa Chandra Ghosha.
Notices of Sanskrit MSS.—The ‘ Catalogue of Sanskrit manu-
scripts,’ edited by Dr. Rajendralala Mitra, has reached its twenty-second
number during 1887. This contains 160 pages with notices of 183
manuscripts, making the total of notices in this series amount to 3072.
As already observed, this great mass of material requires collation and
consolidation with the similar work undertaken in the other Provinces
of India.
Work outside the Society.—Following the practice adopted last year,
I purpose very briefly to review the work done outside the Society,
and to bring to your notice matters that may interest you as bearing on
the objects which the Society itself has in view. My time during the
year has been so fully occupied by my official duties that I have not
been able to keep myself so well acquainted as I should wish with the
progress of research, but, thanks to the kindly aid of my colleagues,+
I shall endeavour to tell you something of what has been done to ad-
vance our knowledge during the year 1887.
Survey of India.—Most of the operations of the Survey of India
during the past year have been devoted to remunerative work as dis-
tinguished from purely scientific investigation. Parties have been en-
gaged on the Revenue Survey of Akyab and Bassein in Burma; parts
of Orissa and Dindjpur in Bengal; Gorakhpur and Basti in the N. W.
Provinces; Jabalpur, Bilaspur, Raipur, Sambhalpur, Sagar, Narsinghpur,
Damoh, Se6éni, and Chhindwara in the Central Provinces ; Muzaffarptr,
Gurdaspur, Amritsar, and Shahpur in the Panjab, and Darrang in
Assam, besides Topographical and Forest surveys in Madras and Bombay,
and a 50-feet to an inch survey of Calcutta. In many districts, the
survey is cadastral with a record of rights. The Baluchistan parties
have done a considerable amount of large-scale work around Quetta and
towards the Khwaja Amran range, and are now engaged on the half-
* See As. Res. XX, p. 393, 1836: Journ. I, p. 375, 1852.
+ I beg to particularly record my obligations to Dr.G. King, Dr. W. King,
Dr. Burgess, Dr. Barclay, Mr. Eliot, Mr. H. Risley, and Colonel Thuillier; also to
the Secretaries for aid in passing these pages through the press.
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inch survey of that province. The Himalayan party has been working
under Colonel Tanner towards Kulu, and the Andaman party has
completed the survey of the coasts of the Nicobars.
In Burma, Captain Hobday, R. H., has been able to get through a
large amount of work around Mandalay and towards Thebaw in the
Shan States, whilst Colonel Woodthorpe, R. E., has connected his
triangulation, carried down the Kyindwin from Manipur, with that of
Captain Hobday around Mandalay. The latter officer and Mr. Kennedy
have also surveyed portions of the Ruby Mines district. Colonel
Woodthorpe, in the early part of 1887, explored the Kubo valley and
the basin of the Yeu river, visiting Paungbyin on the Kyindwin and
Thaungdut. A special officer has been employed in taking astronomi-
cal observations for latitudes from Jabalpur southwards towards Madras,
and a party has extended a series of secondary triangles northwards
from Madras, over a distance of 170 miles, to fix beacons and the position
of prominent land-marks, for the Marine survey. Tidal observations
have been taken at seventeen posts by self-registering guages, and lines
of spirit levels are being carried from these posts connecting them with
the nearest triangulation stations. During the year, Tuticorin was thus
connected with Erode, Negapatam with Trichinopali and Cochin, and
Marmagoa with Shoranur and Karwar. The reports and maps of the
explorations of the surveyor M—H to the North of Nepal have appeared,
but those of R—N in eastern Bhutan, are not ready, and have not yet
been issued in India.
Royal Geographical Society.—The Proceedings of the Royal Gleogra-
phical Society contain as usual a number of papers that deserve our
attention, and amongst them a prominent place must be given to those
relating to Tibet and Central Asia. We have here notes of the progress
made from time to time by the French travellers M.M. Bonvalot and
Camus, who, after suffering much hardship in their adventurous journey
across the western highlands from Samarkand, arrived safely in Simla
in September last, by way of Chitral and Gilgit. In Major-General
Sir H. C. Rawlinson’s article on ‘the Dragon lake of Pamir’, we find
that he has discovered, from Mr. Ney Elias’ account of his remarkable
journey from the neighbourhood of Yengi-Hissar to Shighnan, that the
route taken by that traveller is none other than the famous trade-route
used by the caravans of Rome passing from Baktria along the ‘ Vallis
Comedarum’ to the Stone-tower on the border of Chinese territory ;
and, also, there is reason to believe that it 1s the same as that used by the
great Chinese traveller Hiuen T siang in the seventh century. It would
appear that there has been some confusion in the Buddhist ideas of
geography, in making the Rang-kul, a lake on this route, oue with the
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Manasarovara to the north of Kumaon, and attributing to it the name
usually given tothe Rakhas Tal, to the west of and close to the Mana
lake. We have also an account of the journeys made by Captains
Maitland and Talbot in Afghanistan, during which the Hirat triangu-
lation has been carried to Bamian, and connected with poimts in the
immediate neighbourhood of those fixed by the Kabul triangulation, a
total area of about 9000 square miles having been surveyed and recon-
noitred on the one-eighth inch scale. Nor should I omit to mention the
survey work done by Colonel Woodthorpe, R. E., with the Gilgit
Mission, covering some 10,000 square miles of the important and little-
known districts of Yasin, Chitral, Hunza-Nagar, and Wakhan and to
complete which with General Lockhart he has been deputed to
England.
Major C. R. Macgregor describes a journey made by himself and
Colonel R. G. Woodthorpe from Sadiyé, on the upper waters of the
Brahmaputra, to the Kampti Shan region, on the western branch of the
Trawadi. The expedition passed through a country inhabited by
Kamptis or Shans, Singphos or Kakhyens, Mishmis, Nagas and Kun-
nungs, and visited several of their villages including Lungnu and
Padao. Another paper on the same region is that by General J. T.
Walker, R. H., on the question whether the Lu river of Tibet is the
source of the Irawadi or of the Salwin. It gives a summary of our
existing knowledge on the subject and an interesting discussion, the
general result leaning towards the belief that the Lu-chu of Tibet
forms the principal source of the Irawadi. This is in its present stage
a matter of purely speculative geography which will doubtless soon find
a solution when affairs in Burma become a little more settled. We
have alsoa brief notice of M. Potanin’s lecture on his travels through
North-Western China and Hastern Tibet, and a paper by Mr. H. EH. M.
James, giving a detailed account of his travels in Manchuria. Mr. H. D.
Morgan’s reswmé of Russian geographical work in 1886 tells us of much
that has been accomplished by the St. Petersburgh Geographical So-
ciety, andin military topographical work by officers of the staff-corps
and corps of military topographers in Asiatic Russia and Bokhara.
Mr. A. D. Carey’s very modest account of his journey with Mr.
Dalgleish round Chinese Turkistan, and along the northern frontier of
Tibet, tells of an achievement second to none accomplished of Jate. Travel-
ling from India by Leh, he crossed into Tibet by way of Polu and Kiria to
Khoten, thence keeping the line of the Yurangkash river to Shahyar, he -
struck the Tarim and followed it up to Lob Nor. Proceeding thence in
a south-easterly direction, he skirted the great mountain ranges forming
the northern boundary of the Tibetan highland, known as the Altun and
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Kuen-lun, to Naichi. Here he was obliged to commence his homeward
journey, which he effected by Sachu, Ghainshé, Hami, Turfan, Kuchar,
and Yarkand to Leh, thus completing the circuit of Chinese Turkistan.
Much of this route lay over country never visited hitherto by a Kuro-
pean and not likely to prove attractive in the future. As Mr. Carey
writes: ‘the chief characteristic of the country is its extreme poverty :
it may be described as a huge desert fringed by a few small patches of
cultivation.’ The paper is accompanied by a map prepared by Colonel
Haig, R. H., from Mr. Dalgleish’s notes. We have also an account of
Prejevalsky’s recent journeys and discoveries in Central Asia by Mr.
K. D. Morgan, and we may shortly expect the first instalment of the
traveller’s own work on his last and perhaps most important expedition.
The Paris Geographical Society’s Proceedings have a number of
papers on the French possessions in Tongking, amongst which mention
may be made of those on the Mekong river and the tribes inhabiting
its banks, by M.M. Gouin and “L. de Mazenad. In the ‘ Missions Catho-
liques’ there is a useful map of the lower Mekong, compiled by the
missionaries, and in ‘ Hacwrsions et Ieconnaissances,’ a paper by M.
Aymonier on Annam, the country and people. We should also obtain
some valuable information from M. Dutreuil de Rhin’s forthcoming
work on Tibet. The Berlin Geographical Society has the substance
of a lecture delivered by Dr. F. Sarasin of Basle on the lengthened
visit paid by him and his brother to Ceylon, during which they appear
to have thoroughly investigated the physical and ethnological pheno-
mena of the island. ‘ Globus’ has a series of articles on Merv and
Prejevalsky’s travels, and ‘Das Ausland,’ a short notice of a pil-
grimage to Jagannath. The Parliamentary blue-book containing the
‘Correspondence respecting the affairs of Central Asia’ is furnished
with maps which add much to its value, as it is presumed that they
contain the latest information available from the records of the Survey,
and, for those who are curious in this matter, the Russian official account
entitled ‘Délimitation Afghane. Négociations entre la Russie et la
Grande Bretagne, 1872-85,’ lately published by the Russian Foreign
office, gives the other side of the question. I must also mention Keane’s
‘ Geography of the Malay peninsula, Indo-China and the Eastern Archi-
pelago, Philippines and New Guinea,’ and Dr. Bastian’s ‘ Indonesien
oder die Inseln des Malayischen Archipels.’
Indian Antiquary—The Indian Antiquary upholds the high place
that it has deservedly taken, and I have again to record the continua-
tion of Mr. Fleet’s ‘Sanskrit and old Kanarese inscriptions’ (Nos.
168-171), and, by the same writer, papers on the date of the poet Rajase-
khara, and on the Gupta era. Professor Kielhorn continues his notes
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on the Mahdbhashya, and gives an inscription of Yakshapala from the
Sati Ghat in Gaya, and fresh readings of three Chandela copper-plate
grants which have already appeared in our Journal, two edited by Mr. V.
A. Smith,* and one by Dr. Rajendraldla Mitra.f They are dated in the
end of the tenth and the beginning of the eleventh century, and were
inscribed by order of Dhangadeva, Devavarmadeva, and Madanavarma-
deva, Rajis of Kalanjara. Mr. Howorth continues his valuable series of
papers on Chingiz Khan and his ancestors, and the Rev. 8. Beal has a
paper on Nagarjuna Bodhisattwa and the King Shatopahanna. Pandit
Bhagwan Lal Indraji gives an account of the Sirpur (Khandesh) grant
of Maharaja Rudradasa, and Mr. Logan contributes to the discussion of
the vexed question of Sankaracharya’s date which, from all that has been
written, may be placed at the end of the seventh and beginning of the
eighth century of our era. A feature of the year’s issue is the collec-
tion of folk-lore from Southern India by Pandit 8. M. Natesga Sdstri,
from Western India by Putlibai D. H. Wadia, Salsette by G. F. D’Penha,
and Kashmir by the Rev. J. H. Knowles.
Indian Notes and Queries.—With the Indian Antiquary may be men-
tioned ‘Indian Notes and Queries,’ edited by Captain Temple and a
competent staff. It admits short notices and articles,questions and answers
to those questions, on all points connected with the physical and ancient
geography, antiquities, history, fauna and flora, or products of India ; or
with its people, their history, distribution, languages, castes, customs,
trade, and occupations. In fact, everything connected with India is
admitted, except politics and religious topics of a controversial character.
This periodical fulfils a distinct purpose, somewhat similar to that of its
English namesake, and should be acceptable to the members of this
Society as a useful adjunct to its own publications. Another interesting
serial, also edited by Captain Temple, is the ‘ Legends of the Panjab,’
which is intended to give the exact words used by the narrators them-
selves with a running translation and notes in explanation where neces-
sary. Of this work two volumes have been published, and the third is
under issue.
Other Journals—The last number of the Journal of the Bombay
Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society is taken up with Professor Peterson’s
third report onthe Sanskrit manuscripts collected by him for Govern-
ment, or catalogued as occurring in the Western Presidency, of which,
also, a notice by Professor Biihler appears in the Vienna Oriental Journal.
Attention may be drawn to the account of the Buddhist Sanskrit
manuscript by Dharmottaracharya, which is to be published for this
* xlvii, (1), p. 81, 84.
+ Ibid, p. 73.
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Society. The ‘ Madras Journal of Literature and Science’ contains papers
by the editor, Captain R. H. C. Tufnell, on ‘ Hints to coin-collectors in
Southern India,’ by the Rev. M. Phillips, ‘on the cosmogony of the
Vedas,’ and the text and a translation of a Pallava inscription from
Amaravati, by Dr. Hultzsch. We have not received anything from the
Ceylon Branch of the Asiatic Society during the year, but in the Journal
of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, there are some papers
of interest to us in India. One is an Hnglish-Sulu-Malay vocabulary,
another is ‘on roots in the Malay language,’ by Dr. Pijnappel, and a
third is Mr. EH. M. Satow’s paper on the bibliography of Siam. I would
also notice the second series of ‘ Miscellaneous papers relating to Indo-
China’ edited by Dr. R. Rost, which have been reprinted for the
Straits Society from the Malayan ‘ Miscellanies,’ the Transactions and
Journals of the Batavian Society, and the Journals of the Royal Geogra-
phical and Royal Asiatic Societies, and our own Journal. The Journal
of the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society contains a further
instalment of Mr. G. Phillip’s paper on the seaports of India and
Ceylon from Chinese sources. In the Journal of the Royal Asiatic
Society of London, I would draw attention to the papers by Mr. Senathi
Raja on ‘ the pre-Sanskrit element in ancient Tamil’; Major General
Haig, ‘on Ibn Battita in Sindh’; and Mr. G. A. Grierson ‘on some
useful Hindi books’. Mr. F. Pincott continues his studies on the
metrical arrangement of the hymns of the Rig-Veda, and gives his
views on the peculiar system adopted in the first Mandala, and Mr.
H. G. Keene has an article ‘on the revenues of the Moghul Empire.’
Dr. T. Duka furnishes an essay on the Brahii grammar of the late Dr.
Trumpp, in which he makes some valuable additions to our knowledge
of this little-known language. The note by the Rev. 8. Beal on Fah-
Hien, the Chinese traveller, may be mentioned with his new transla-
tion of the life of Hieun Tsiang.
Foretgn Societies—In America, under the auspices of the Ameri-
can Oriental Society, a goodly number of papers have been published of
interest to us in India. Professor Bloomfield gives us an article on ‘ two
hymns from the Atharva Veda,’ and Professor EK. W. Hopkins contributes
papers on ‘the condition of Hindu women in the Mahabharata,’ ‘the
Vytha or order of battle in the Mahabharata, ‘ Fire-arms unknown in
ancient India,’ and a short critique on Professor Bihler’s edition of Manu.
Dr. A. V. W. Jackson pursues his Zend studies, and has two papers on
‘ Avestan similes,’ and a translation with notes of the Afrigan-Rapithwina
of the Avesté, whilst the Rev. J. S. Chandler gives an article ‘on the
transliteration of Sanskrit proper names in Tamil,’ and Professor
Avery has an essay ‘ on the relationship of the Kachari and Qaro lan-
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guages of Assam.’ The Journal of the Asiatic Society of France
(Journal Asiatique) contains the conclusion of M. Senart’s papers on the
language of the Asoka edicts, which is also published separately, and also
the conclusion of M. Sauvaire’s ‘materials for the history of Musalman
Numismatics and Metrology.’ Attention may also be called to M. Abel
Bergaigne’s notes on the primitive samhita of the Rig-Veda; M. L. Feer’s
translation of and notes on the Updlisuttam, and Mr. J. Darmesteter’s
paper on ‘the Mahdbhdrataand Shahnamah.’ The Journal of the German
Oriental Society (Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft)
contains as usual much of interest on Indian subjects; Professor O.
Bohtlingk giving a supplement to Vasishtha which is criticised by Pro-
fessor Bihler, and also a paper on Apastamba. Professor Biihler con-
tributes a paper on the Asoka edicts, and P. von Bradke continues his
contributions to our knowledge of Indian religion and antiquities. To
A. Hillebrandt we are indebted for an article on Vaidik ritual, and to
A. Ludwig, for one on the meanings of words occurring in the Vedas,
while Dr. Spiegel continues his Avesta studies. I am glad to hear
that the Kashmir manuscripts described in last year’s issue of the
same Journal as having been collected by Dr. Hultzsch, have since been
acquired by the Bodleian library at Oxford. In the Vienna Oriental
Journal, we have a paper by Professor Bihler on the meaning of
the particles ‘itv’ and ‘cha,’ with which may be compared Professor
Bohtlingk’s paper criticising the same in the Leipsic Journal. Dr. W.
Cartellieri advances further evidence for the views of Professor Hall
that Subandhu, author of the Vdsavadattd, preceded Bana, and there-
fore that the books and stories quoted by him are older than the be-
ginning of the seventh century. V.G. Ojha edits a new Valabhi grant,
and Professor Jolly has a paper on Manu and Brihaspati. Professor
Bihler further gives us gleanings from the Kosha entitled Vaijayant? by
Yadavaprakasa, an essay ‘on the authenticity of the Jaina tradition,’
and a review of 8. P. Pandit’s Gaudavaha, whilst Dr. Hultzsch com-
mences a series of notes on new Indian inscriptions, giving an account of
the Pallava inscription from Amaravati of which the text appears in the
Madras Journal. We have also to welcome the appearance of the first
numbers of the publications of the new Italian Asiatic Society (La
Societa Asiatica Italiana) of Florence, which are apparently due to the
recent visit of Count Angelo di Gubernatis to this country, and should do
much to popularise Oriental research in Italy. I should also mention
‘The Asiatic Quarterly Review,’ in which almost every article that has
appeared is more or less concerned with Indian subjects, and which
forms a valuable addition to an Indian library.
Other works. Senvitic—Besides the rather numerous editions of
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the works of Arabic grammarians, especially in the Panjib, we have to
record the publication of the great grammar of Sibwayh or Sibawaihi,
entitled ‘ Al kitéb’ or ‘the Book’ by Maulavi Kabiruddin Ahmad at
the ‘ Urdu Guide’ press in Calcutta. I note that an edition of this work
is also appearing in Paris, edited by Professor H. Derenbourg. Wemay
also record the near completion of a new edition of Lane’s great lexicon,
and the completion of the first volume of the Dictionnaire Francais-Arabe
by M. E. Gasselin, French Consul-General at Calcutta, containing all
the words of the French language, including technical terms, with their
Arabic equivalents, which are further grammatically and etymologically
explained and illustrated by examples from classical writers. Dr. Lansing
publishes a practical Arabic grammar at Chicago, and we have French
translations of Ibn Battit&é and Mas’udi’s ‘ Meadows of gold.’ But per-
haps the most important Arabic work of the year is Professor Sachau’s
edition of the text and translation of the great work of Al Bertini,
published under the auspices of the Secretary of State for India.
Written in the eleventh century of our era, it contains the most accurate
and philosophical account of the Hindu inhabitants of India of the
time that is to be found in the whole range of Musalman literature.
Dr. O. S. Jayakar, Civil-Surgeon of Maskat, also gives us a brief
account of the dialect spoken in the Oman district of Arabia.
Tranian-Aryan.— Portions of the Zend scriptures and writings have
been reprinted in Gujrat and Bombay. We have the text with transla-
tion, commentary, and lexicon of the Gajastak Abalish prepared by A.
Barthelemy, and reviewed by Kirste in the Vienna Journal, and also by
the Rev. L. H. Mills, the third part of the English translation of the
Avesta. M. C. Salaman’s ‘ Mittelpersische Studien, in the Bulletin of
the St. Petersburgh Academy, criticises Peshutan Dastir Behramji
Sayana’s edition of portions of the Pahlavi writings transliterated in
Zend characters, and translated into Gujrati and English with a com-
mentary and glossary. .
Sanskrit.—Y our attention may be drawn to two serial publications
in Bombay which serve the same purposes as our Bibliotheca Indica, for
the minor Sanskrit works. One is the ‘ Kdavyaméla,’ carefully edited by
Pandit Dured Prasdda and Kashinath P. Paraba, and containing reprints
of short poems and verses, and the other is the ‘ Kdvyetihdsa samgraha,’
giving editions of dramas, chronicles, philosophical and theological
works. We have also from Bombay, Dr. Taylor’s translation of the
Prabodha chandrodaya. Amongst new editions, a high place is taken
by Professor Peterson’s Hitopadega ; Professor Jolly’s Manava Dharma
Sdstra, of which several notices appear; the Maitrayani samhita by
Schroeder, and Katyayana’s Sarvanukramani to the Rig-Veda by Mr.
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A. A. Macdonell, brought out through the authorities of the Cambridge
University. Professor Pischel’s editions of Rudrata’s erotic poem S'rin-
gératilaka and Ruyyaka’s Sahridayalila win a commendatory notice from
M.S. Levi. We have also the Kaushitaki Brahmana by Dr. B. Lindner,
Hemachandra’s Lingdnusdyina with a commentary by Dr. R. v. Franke,
and Dr. Solf’s ‘ die Kagmir recension der Pangasika.’ Amongst grammars
and dictionaries are Bohtlingk’s edition of Panini, and a new edition of
Max Miiller’s grammar by Mr. A. A. Macdonell, who is also engaged on
a Practical Sanskrit dictionary. Parts of Prof. C. Capeller’s ‘ Sanskrit-
Worterbuch,’ based on the great St. Petersburgh dictionary, have ap-
peared, and Dr. Speijer’s valuable Syntax of classical Sanskrit, of which
we hope soon to see a translation into English. I may mention here
that the Paris Academy has chosen as one of the subjects for prizes in
1889, ‘the Hindu drama.’
Indian Aryan.—The versions of the Scriptures in Marathi, Dakhani,
Hindi, Santali, Uriyé, and Urdu are now under-going revision at the
hands of competent scholars, and should, from a merely philological
point of view, furnish valuable results. Tulsidas’s Ramayana has been
republished in Bombay, and selections from it in the N. W. Provinces.
It is to be regretted that it was not possible to issue any part of the
Bihari dictionary of Dr. Hoernle and Mr. G. A. Grierson during the
year. Generally speaking, the school series of books in the various
dialects spoken in India form a valuable contribution to the aids
for their acquisition, by this I mean not only those published by the
State Educational Department, but also those prepared by private Native
compilers. In Urdu, special attention may be drawn to the new
Hindustani dictionary in preparation by the Rev. J. D. Bate of Allaha-
bad which, it is promised, will contain many thousands of words that
have never yet appeared in any dictionary hitherto published. Sindhi
in Arabic characters makes a little progress: we have the ‘ Kisso sasi
panhuja,’ a love story, and, in Hindi characters, a translation of the Bha-
gavat.
Tibeto-Burman.—The Rev. 8. Endle has published a grammar of
the Kachari-Bara, as spoken in the Darrang district in Assam; and Mr.
Needham, already known for his labours in this field, has given us one
of the Shaiyang-miri, spoken by the Miris near Sadiya, with texts and
a vocabulary.
Indo-Chinese.—M. Azémar has published in Saigon a vocabulary
of the Stieng language spoken in the valley of the Mekong, and M.
Guion has, in the pages of the Journal of the Paris Geographical
Society, several contributions on the Muongs, a tribe Occupying portions
of the upper banks of the same river. In the Mélanges Orientauz
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we have a‘ Texte Malais’ by the Abbé Faire, and Professor Abel des
Michels’ edition of some Annamite tales.
Dravidian.—Tirandumagni’s commentary on the classical Tamil
work Tolkdppiyam has been published in Madras, and it is hoped that
we may soon have a translation, as this should throw considerable light
on the ethnological condition of the people of Southern India. The
Nannul of Pavanandi, the standard grammar of Tamil, has gone through
two editions, and Professor Vinson gives a ‘Specimen of Tamil paleo-
graphy’ in the Mélanges Orientaux. Mr. L. Garthwaite has brought
out a work on the essentials of Malayalim grammar, and the Pancha-
tantram in the same language. In Telugu, we have several reprints of
grammars and selections for educational purposes. The Rev. Hl. Droese
continues his labours in the Maler language of the Bhagalpur district,
and has produced a translation of a Gospel, and prepared some small
works for educational purposes. The Gospels in the Badaga language
are also under preparation by the Rev. W. Lutz; and revisions of the
Telugu, Tolu and Konkani existing versions by other competent scholars.
Vernacular literatwre.-—Bengal.—Your attention was called last
year to the record of the current literature of India to be found in
the ‘Catalogue of books printed in British India’ published quarterly
in each Province. It is intended only very briefly to refer to it here,
as the subject is too large to be usefully considered in an address
of this nature, but it is desirable to keep it prominently before the
members of this Society, and I would commend a review of the
vernacular literature of the last decade as not unworthy of their
attention. In Bengal there were 2,475 entries in the catalogue, from
the middle of 1886 to the middle of 1887, for which alone the lists are
available, and of these 838 works are described as written for educational
purposes, and 1,657 as non-educational. The Bengal school of novelists
is well represented by the ‘ Sitdrém’ of Babu Bankim Chandra Chattarji,
which is intended to illustrate a more perfect stage of nishkama dharma
than has hitherto been attempted. The ‘ Saktikanan’ of Babu Srish
Chandra Majumdar, also, is notable, as giving a correct realistic view of
the state of Hindu society in Bengal during the early part of the last
century, when the rivalry of the Vaishnavas and Saktas caused dissen-
sions throughout the Province. The ‘ Harishe Bishdd,’ of Babu Taraka
Chandra Gangili, satirises the pretentious style adopted by some of the
younger educated native officers of Government. In the domain of
poetry, ‘ Apirba maya milan’ by a young author, and the ‘ Raivataka’ of
Babi Nabin Chandra Sen, are both worthy of notice. The latter attempts
to give a rational explanation of the events recorded in the Mahabharata.
The year is remarkable for the publication of what may be considered
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the oldest work in existence in the literary language of Bengal, the
Sri srt Krishna bijaya of Gunaréj] Khan, who flourished some 450 years
ago. The labours of Pandit Ramanarayana Vidydratna in reprinting a
large and interesting series of Vaishnava works, and of Babi Mahesa
Chandra Pal in’ publishing works on philosophy deserve honourable
mention. The latter has recently completed the commentary on the
Vedanta by Madhvacharya with the gloss of Jayatirtha. I have also
to notice an important bhashya, or commentary in Sanskrit, on the
Vaiseshika-darsana, by Mahamahopadhyaya Chandrakanta Tarkalankara.
Already well known by his commentary on the Globhiltya-grihya sutra and
the exposition of the tenets of the philosophical schools in his Tattwabal,
the learned pandit now comes forward with a system of his own and
shows himself a worthy successor of the Bhashyakaras of old. Another
of our recently created Mahamahopadhyayas, Pandit Rakhal Das Nyaya-
ratna of Bhatpara, justifies his selection for that honour by publishing
a treatise on the Nyaya, in which he contests the views ordinarily held
by the Naiydyiks of Bengal. Mr. R. C. Datta has completed his edition of
the Rig-veda, with a Bengali translation based on Sayana’s commentary,
and notes derived both from indigenous sources and the results of the
labours of European scholars. For using the latter he has received severe
censure at the hands of some of his orthodox fellow-countrymen, but we
may trust that more liberal views will soon prevail, and that the work
done by Europeans who have rescued from oblivion so much that is valu-
able in Sanskrit lterature will be fittingly recognized and valued even
by the followers of the old orthodox school. Babu Pratapa Chandra
Raya’s valuable edition of the Mahabharata, translated with the aid of
competent European and Native scholars, has now reached the thirty-
seventh part, which falls within the Bhishmaparvan. Whether due
or not to the prominence into which Buddhistic ideas have risen
owing to the progress made by the Theosophical Society, it cannot
but be regarded as a sign of the times that a commencement has been
made in making the tenets of Buddhism more widely known by a trans-
lation from the Pali into Bengali of the Sutta Nipate of the Suttapitaka,
a portion of the sacred Tripitaka.
Madras.—The Madras issues comprise works in English, Tamil,
Telugu, Malayadlim, Kanarese, Urdu, Sanskrit, and polyglots. In Tamil,
there are several works on grammar with commentaries, numerous
religious works advocating the advaita system, or in praise of particular
forms of the deity, such as the Kanjiviram Siva and Vishnu, the Tanjor
Ganapati and Subramaniya. In Telugu, we have to note reprints of
the works of the great southern teacher Ramantja Acharya, besides the
usual series of translations from the Sanskrit. The Malayalim issues
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comprise both Hindu devotional works and numerous religious didactic
treatises in the Arabic character and Mopla dialect, for the use of the
Musalman Moplas of the western districts of Madras. Several editions
of well-known Sanskrit works have been brought out, amongst which
mention may be made of the Black Yajur-Veda, the recognized ritual of
the Smarta Brahmans.
Bombay.—The Bombay register contains books printed in English,
Marathi, Gujrati, Sanskrit, Zend, Arabic in Hebrew and Arabic char-
acters, Sindi in Persian and Hindi characters, Persian, Urdu, Marwari,
and Kanarese. Amongst those published in Hnglish, mention may be
made of Mr. V. Shivram Apte’s ‘Life and writings of the poct and
dramatist Rajaselhara,’ who is placed not earlier than the seventh century.
In Marathi, the life of the sage and poet Dnydnegwar, whose shrine exists
in the Poona district, gives an interesting account of one who is famous
in the popular songs of Maharashtra. An edition, also, has been pub-
lished, of his Paribhéshdyukta on the Bhayavad-gita, which is probably
one of the oldest specimens of literary Marathi. Some curious legends,
too, will be found in the account of the temple of the popular deities
Vithoba and Rukminiin Pundharpur. There are many dramas founded
on episodes in the Mahabharata and Ramayana, besides several of which
the plot is original, such as that of the ‘ Gunotkarsha-ndtik’ of V. Vaman
Sastri Khare, laid in the time of Sivaji—and those with a didactic
purpose, showing the evil effects of infant-marriage, drunkenness, and
debauchery. Nor is the practical side of modern life neglected, for we
have an encyclopedia of arts and manufactures based on Spon’s stan-
dard work, and a Journal (‘ Shetkari)’ devoted to the improvement of
agricultural processes. In G'ujrdti, also, there is an agricultural journal,
and a practical treatise on the working of cotton-mills, whilst light
literature is represented by translations of ‘ Valentine Vox,’ ‘ Munchau-
sen’s travels’, and others, besides some original stories and plays.
There are several collections also of popular ballads and of the songs sung
by women on festive occasions. A member of the Beni-Israel commu-
nity gives an account of a journey to Jerusalem, and a devout Hindu
one of a pilgrimage to Rameswar. These all indicate progress of the
right kind, and a large increase in literary activity, which should lead to
important results.
Panjab.—The Panjab register contains works in English, Arabic,
Persian, Urdu, Sindi, Sanskrit, Hindi, Panjibi, and Marwari. The
Arabic-Persian series chiefly consists of reprints of grammars, com-
mentaries on and parts of the Koran and Musalmén law-books, and
poetry, and indeed the great mass of the issues in other languages
comprises reprints of books of poetry and fiction, or of those designed
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for educational or religious purposes. There were very few original
works of any importance, and those that have appeared are mainly de-
voted to religious controversy, Sikh, Hindu, Musalman, or Christian.
North-Western Provinces and Oudh.—The opening, during the year,
of the new University at Allahabad supplies a long-felt want in the
N. W. Provinces and Oudh. Hitherto the local institutions were affi-
liated to the Calcutta University, where there could be little sympathy
or encouragement for the study of the local vernaculars, which, it is
hoped, will now receive the attention that they so much deserve and
need. The issues during the year, excluding periodicals, amounted
to 800, of which 25 were in English, 361 Urdu, 261 Hindi, 31 Sans-
krit, 19 Arabic, 69 Persian, and 30 polyglot. There were, as in the
Panjib, very few original works of value, though mention may be
made of some treatises on medicine and on mathematics intended for
educational purposes. Parts of Tulsidas’s Ramayana have gone through
several editions, and in the ‘ Vijaya-dohdval’’ an attempt is made to
explain the obscure dohds, chaupdis, and sorathds occurring in that work.
Other Provinces.—Burma, Assam, and the Central Provinces, as might
be expected, present but a meagre record. In Burma, there are numerous
manuscripts both in Burmese and Pali, but the aid of the printing-press
has been little resorted to, and there is here a tolerably wide field open
to students. In Assam, Bengalis are the principal writers, and their
works, for the most part, are mere translations or simply reprints of Ben-
gdli works, usually of a religious character.
Archeological Survey.—The survey of the Archeological remains in
each Province continues to be prosecuted as vigorously as the organisa-
tion at the disposal of the Department admits. In the Panjab, Mr.
Rodgers has given the fruits of some of his labours in articles which
will appear iu our Journal, especially that relating to the old temple of
Nirpur in Kangra, besides collecting a large number of inscriptions.
In Bengal, Mr. Beglar and his assistants have been employed on the
ruins at Gaur in the Malda district and in Tirhit, but no detailed
report is as yet available.
N. W. Provinces.—Dr. Fuhrer, with Mr. E. W. Smith in charge of
the survey inthe N. W. Provinces and Central Provinces, in the begin-
ning of the year, made a tour through Banda and parts of Allahabad
and Bundelkhand, visiting Pratishthanapur, Bithabhayapattana, Bhatta-
grama or Garhwa, Kausambi, Prabhasa, Kalanjar, Mahoba, Rahilyé and
other important sites, and collecting numerous inscriptions, long and short,
‘of which Dr. Fiihrer has translated 10 Arabic, 24 Persian, and over 250
Sanskrit inscriptions in his report. Amongst these are 24 Gupta ones,
and over 35 belonging to the sixth and seventh centuries; all of which
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are new and of considerable importance. Gopdla’s cave at Prabhasa,
on which Mr. Cockburn has given us a paper already published in our
Journal, was entered and surveyed, and all the inscriptions both inside
and outside copied by means of ink impressions. These include three
of the Indo-Skythian period, the oldest of which is dated Vikrama
samvat 10, which may be 47 B.C., or only a regnal date, and five
belong to the Gupta period. We may congratulate Dr. Fuhrer on
the success of his year’s exploration. The draftsmen of the staff
also made careful drawings of the architectural and other objects of
interest at all the places visited during the tour. The report on the
previous season’s work at Jaunpur and in the eastern districts of
the N. W. Provinces, with some important additions from the present
season’s work, is nearly ready for publication and will be richly illus-
trated. During the present season, the architectural assistant and
draftsmen have been hitherto at Jaunpur, completing, in full detail,
the survey of the Sharqi remains there, before they are further injured
by unskilful ‘ restoration.’ Dr. Fihrer has meantime beea engaged upon
a survey of the districts to the east of the Ganges and will, at a later
date, be joined by the architectural staff in Rohilkhand. He has also
compiled a very valuable descriptive list of the antiquarian and
architectural remains in the N. W. Provinces and Oudh, which will be
published by the Local Government at an early date. It is drawn
up on the plan of the Bombay lists, but is fuller in details, and will
afford an admirable guide to the archeology of the area with which it
deals.
Dr. Burgess himself visited Kalsi in Dehra Dtin, in the end of
October, and took a complete impression in duplicate of the Asoka in-
scription there, which it is expected from its clearness will leave little
to be desired by scholars. Healso obtained from the Lakkha Mandal
temple, much further up the Jumna, two early inscriptions, one being
a record of a temple built by Isvara, a princess of the royal family of
Singhapura who had married a Chandragupta prince of Jdlandhara.
It is not dated, but probably belonged to about 600 A. D., and gives a
vamsavalé of eleven generations of the Singhapura family. From
Shahbazgarhi, he has also obtained, through the Assistant Commissioner,
a new inscription in Baktrian-Pali, that may turn out to be the twelfth of
the Asoka edicts which was wanting in the great epigraph close by. It
has been sent to Professor Bihler to be edited. From the Lalitpur
district comes a long inscription, bearing the date 869 in some era, and
from near Mathura, one of Kanishka of which the date may be 85 A. D.
In last February, Dr. Burgess took impressions of all the inscriptions
in the Nagpur Museum which are being now edited by Dr. Kielhorn
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who has, also, recently ascertained the initial date of the Chedi era
to be 248 A. D.
Bombay.—The Bombay Survey party made a tour last season in
northern Gujarat and the west of Kathiawad, visiting Képadwanj,
Vadnagar, Tarangi, Siddhapur, Anhilvadapattan, Mudhera, &e. in
Gujarat, and the Jaina tétha of Satruijaya at Palitand; the results,
with a large number of photographs, drawings and inscriptions, as
regards the Baroda territories, will, it 1s hoped, be brought ont at His
Highness the Gaekwar’s expense, for whom a volume on other places in
his State is now under preparation by the Director. It is understood
that Col. 8. Jacob of Jaipur is also making steady progress with his
work on architectural ornament and detail from the buildings in the
dominions of His Highness the Maharaja, and which will be issued at
His Highness’s expense.
It is a most promising symptom of progress that these native
Princes are taking so practical an interest in the work of the Archolo-
gical Surveys, and helping them. The Bombay party is devoting the
present season chiefly to as thorough a survey, as its strength will permit,
of the architecture of Bijapur, the capital of the Adil Shahi dynasty
(1489-1686 A. D.). The volume published by the late Mr. Fergusson
and Meadows Taylor has given the student some general idea of the
character of the Bijapur buildings, but a much more detailed survey is
absolutely necessary to illustrate the wealth aud beauty of the ornament
and details, and the variety of structures represented. This it is hoped
to accomplish by the present survey.
Madras.—-The Madras Survey under Mr. A. Rea is understood to
have done excellent work last season at Vellore, in the North Arcot
district and elsewhere, having made a complete survey of the beautiful
temple at Vellore, and of many others in the course of the season’s tour.
Mr. Rea has also been specially requested by Government, and very
wisely we think, to visit and examine several prehistoric burial-grounds,
and his explorations have been attended by success, far beyond those
of any of his predecessors, in saving almost every object they contained
intact. From Pallavaram, which had previously been visited by Dr.
Bidie and Mr. Thorowgood, even in the rains, Mr. Rea excavated and
carried entire to Madras an early earthen-ware coffin 6 feet long, of
the most brittle material, with all its contents, and deposited it uninjured
in the Madras Museum. His progress reports and accounts of these
excavations are printed im extenso from time to time in the Madras
Government orders, aud would be well worth reproduction in a more per-
manent and accessible form. The present season is being devoted to the
Krishna and Godavari districts; and near Bejwada, Mr. Rea has ex-
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cavated the foundations of a genuine structural Buddhist vihara, very
similar to the only other hitherto noticed, that at Sanchi. The circuit
of the walls is complete, except a part of the side wall, which some
one has injured not knowing its importance : It is hoped, however, that
the orders recently issued will be sufficient for its protection in future.
Mr. Rea has also made important investigations at other places which
will doubtless be duly reported in the Madras Government orders.
Dr. HE. Hultzsch has completed the manuscript of what will form
a considerable volume of inscriptions, chiefly in the Tamil character,
- and we may hope the Madras Government will not be slow to publish
it. He is at present on tour through Salem, Trichinopali, Tanjor, &c.
collecting impressions and copies of fresh inscriptions to be edited in
the coming hot season and rains. J may also mention an interesting
account of the ruins at Vijayanagar that has appeared in The Madras
Christian College Magazine. Dr. Burgess’ report on the Amardavati
and Jaggayyapeta stupas, completed so far as the author was concerned
in 1886, has recently reached this country. Besides an account of these
stupas and the principal new sculptures and inscriptions, it contains,
in the last chapter, a carefully written monograph on the Agoka inscrip-
tions from Dhaul and Jaugada by Professor Biihler, based on impres-
sions taken personally by Dr. Burgess. This chapter marks the last
decided advance in the criticism of these important documents, and
is accompanied by lithographic reproductions, on a small scale, of
the impressions. Amongst the illustrations, Dr. Burgess has includ-
ed the remainder of Colonel Colin Mackenzie’s drawings made from
slabs in 1816 and 1817, and not included in Mr. Fergusson’s ‘Tree
and Serpent worship.’ All the slabs so drawn, it is much to be
regretted, have disappeared since 1817. This work reflects the highest
credit on Dr. Burgess and his assistants, both for its method and execu-
tion and the excellence of the plates, woodcuts and plans. With it
and Fergusson’s work before us we have some of the best and most
accurate materials in existence for a knowledge of Indian life in the
earlier centuries of the Christian era. The Archeological Department
may be justly proud of this, its latest contribution to the history of
India, and I have no doubt that the same energy and rare discretion will
be shewn in publishing the lapidary records of Mastern India, which have
never yet been adequately represented.
The volume too is handsomely got up, but sells at the almost prohi-
bitive price of three guineas, and we understand that Dr. Burgess
rightly considers that the Reports of the surveys under his charge could
be published in a form quite worthy of their importance at half the
cost, by subscription, if no publisher’s large profits had to be insured
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Let us hope that both the Secretary of State and the Government of
India will hsten attentively to his proposals before they adopt other
counsels. It would be a boon to all interested in Indian Art and Archeo-
logy if they could obtain by subscription the volumes of the Survey,
containing 60 beautiful plates with the letter press, for Rs. 20, instead
of at double or treble that cost through a publisher, and it is computed
that a moderate subscription list would render this easily practicable.
The inscriptions it is expected will be issued in quarterly parts,
either with or without other miscellaneous papers on archeological
matters.
Anthropology.—The ethnographic enquiry which has been going on
in Bengal for the last three years is now approaching completion, and a
first instalment of the results is likely to be published in the form of a
volume on ‘The Tribes and Castes of Bengal’ before the end of the
current year. The scheme of this volume, of which the greater part is
now in type, is purely ethnographic in the strict sense of the word, and
it attempts to do little more than describe the internal structure, cus-
toms, and marriage system of all the castes and tribes found within the
Province of Bengal. As the work is intended to serve administrative as
well as scientific purposes, it 1s cast in the form of a glossary showing
castes, tribes and their subdivisions in alphabetical order. Tables
grouping these under their main heads are given in an Appendix, so as to
illustrate the almost incredible extent to which the original social groups
have broken up and multiplied. The large question of physical charac-
teristics will be treated in a second volume, containing the measurements
of most of the chief tribes in Bengal, the N. W. Provinces, Central Pro-
vinces, and the Panjab. In this volume, I understand, an attempt will
be made to distinguish the main types now discernible in the people of
Northern India, and to ascertain how far these types correspond with the
divisions based upon | anguages. For this latter we have a useful
review of our present knowledge in Professor Fried, Miller’s recent
work on the language of all peoples and tribes of which grammars and
dictionaries exist, and for another phase of the subject L’histoire des
religions by M. M. Vernes. The ‘ Jowrnal of the Anthropological Society ’
of Bombay contains a number of interesting articles, amongst which I
would notice one ‘on demonolatry in South India’ by Bishop Caldwell ;
‘on explorations in the Vedirata of Ceylon,’ by Mr. C. W. Stevens, and
‘on the formation and uses of an Anthropological Museum’ by Captain
R. C. Temple.
Biology.—The series of papers entitled ‘ Scientific Memoirs by
Medical Officers of the Army in India,’ to which your attention was
drawn last year, has, as was expected, rescued from oblivion many
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discoveries in Natural Science which might have remained unrecorded
for some time, if not for ever. In Part II, published early in 1887, there
are six papers, whilst in Part III there are eleven memoirs ; these,
however, will be more properly considered amongst the results of 1888,
as this part has not yet left the printer’s hands. Of the papers in Part
II, those by Dr. Cunningham are (1) ‘ On the effects sometimes follow-
ing the injection of the choleraic comma-bacillus into the subcutaneous
tissues in guinea-pigs,’ and (2) ‘On the phenomenon of gaseous evolution
from the flowers of Ottelia alismoides.’ In the former paper, it is shown
that his inoculations were, in some instances, followed by an excessive
multiplication of the bacilli within the bodies of the animals operated
upon, and death with certain symptoms resembling those which charac-
terise cholera in the human subject supervened, but the author does not
think that the phenomena induced warrant the conclusion that they
were of a truly choleraic nature. The two papers by Dr. Barclay are
on the life-histories of two species of Uredinew, one parasitic on Strobi-
lanthes dalhousianus, which he has named Alcidium strobilanthis, and
the other on Urtica parviflora, which he considers to be a variety of Aeci-
dium urtice, a parasite well-known in Europe. Both parasites are
heteroecious, or requiring two distinct hosts on which to complete their
development. In the case of the former, the second host is Pollinia
nuda, and in that of the latter, it is Carex setigera. These are the first
species of Acidia whose life-histories have been worked out in India.
Dr. King, F. R. 8., discusses, in his paper ‘ On the fertilisation of
Ficus hispida,’ a problem of great interest in vegetable physiology which
still remains unsolved. Lastly, Dr. Bomford notes the discovery of
some eges of Distoma (Bilharzia) hematobium in the intestines of two
transport cattle which died in Calcutta. The discovery is of some
importance, since hitherto the existence of this parasite has only been
known in Africa, the Mauritius, and Arabia.
Indian Musewm.—The Indian Museum continues to hold a high
place in popular estimation, the number of visitors during the year of
report being 460,992, giving an average of 1,928 for each day during
which it was open to the public. Amongst the principal acquisitions
of the year are the zoological collection from the Indian shores and
deep seas contributed by the Marine Survey, and a collection of snakes
from Singapore, mammals nad birds from Afghanistdn collected by
Captain Yate, European Diptera from Dr. HE. Becher, British Hyme-
noptera from Mr. HE. T. Atkinson, invertebrates of the Arctic seas
from the Stockholm Museum, and the Mergui collections that have been
named through Dr. Anderson. The Trustees have long recognised their
position as guardians of Imperial scientific research in India, but it has
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not been found possible to do much hitherto in communicating the results
of the collections that have been from time to time made. Iam glad to be
able to state that the cataloguing of our Indian fauna has at length been
systematically commenced. Mr. W. Sclater has taken up the continua-
tion of the ‘ Catalogue of the Mammalia,’ so well begun by Dr. Anderson :
Colonel C. Swinhoe and Mr. H. Cotes have published the second part of
their ‘ Catalogue of Indian Moths’ for the Trustees, and Mr. Wood-
Mason has in hand a ‘ Catalogue of the Mantoidea’ of which we have
an excellent collection. The first plate of Mr. W. L. Distant’s ‘ Mono-
graph of the Oriental Cicadide’ is ready, so that we may expect an
instalment of the work during the current year. Last year I announced
the commencement of the publication by the Linnean Society of the
results of the examination of the collections made for the Indian Museum
in the Mergui archipelago named through or by Dr. J. Anderson. A
special volume has been devoted to these memoirs, and the following
have appeared during the year :—Marine Sponges, by Mr. H. 8. Carter :
Ophiuride and on some parts of Ophiothriz variabilis, Dunc., and
Ophiocampsis pellicula, Dunc., by Professor P. Martin Duncan: Polyzoa
and Hydroida by the Rev. T. Hincks: a new species of Brachyonychus
by Mr. H. W. Bates: the Birds, by Dr. J. Anderson: on Dichelopsis
pellucida, Darwin, from the scales of an Hydrophid obtained at Mergui,
by Dr. P. P. C. Hoek, and the Podophthalmous Crustacea by Dr. J. G.
deMan. Most of these collections have already been returned, and all
will eventually find a place in the Museum.
Nor has the practical side of zoology been forgotten. Collections of
the silk-producing moths have been made for distribution to the several
Provinces, and aid has been given to the inquiries now being made
into the diseases affecting silk-worms. The laboratory has been com-
pleted, and stocked with appliances for the prosecution of these studies.
To Mr. H. Cotes has been assigned the task of surveying the insect-pests
of India, regarding which we are practically in utter ignorance, but this
work can only be successfully accomplished by the co-operation of
intelligent observers throughout the country, and I need only mention
the subject to ensure your sympathy and support. An effort is also
being made to re-arrange ina practical way the great mass of ‘ Hconomic
Products’ that has come into the possession of the Museum from the late
Economic Museum and the Calcutta Exhibition. The object is to arrange
the specimens so as to make them a practical commentary on Dr. Watt’s
‘ Dictionary of Economic Products’, now being prepared by him for the
Government of India. This will contain the history, so far as known,
of each specimen exhibited, and hereafter it is intended to add to this by
a purely commercial survey of these products, showing the place where
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each is procurable, the season, price, and probable quantity, and whether
the supply is permanent or only casual. At first only those products
that are of value and occur in marketable quantities will be examined,
--andin this way much useful work can be accomplished. Collections
have already been made for and despatched to Russia, Italy, Belgium,
France, and the Australian colonies. In connection with the Museum,
I may be allowed to express the hope that steps may be taken to centra-
lise within its walls the direction of the scientific research now fit-
fully undertaken in India, It has even now within its enclosure the
Geological Department and Museum, and the nucleus of an Imperial
archeological collection, and within reasonable distance the magni-
ficent herbarium of the Royal Botanical Gardens, but, if the Directors
of these great branches of scientific inquiry became associated with the
Board of Trustees and undertook the supervision of similar efforts in
other Provinces, the work could be better apportioned and more effi-
ciently and economically carried out, and neither friction nor interference
with local wants or prejudices need necessarily follow.
Vertebrata.—We have in the ‘ Proceedings of the Zoological Society’
a paper on the gnu-goat ( Budorcas taxicolor, Hodgs.), by Mr. A. O. Hume
and papers on the birds of Perak and on some birds in the Hume col-
lection by Mr. Sharpe. In the ‘ Annals and Magazine of Natural History,’
there are papers by Mr. O. Thomas on two new squirrels and a new rat
from N. Borneo, as well as a reprint from our Journal of the article on
Mammals from Northern Afghanistan which I have previously men-
tioned. Amongst those bearing on Asiatic ornithology in the ‘ Ibis,’
mention may be made of one, by Dr. M. Menzbier, on some new birds
from the palearctic region, and of three, by Mr. Seebohm, on the birds
of the Loo-choo islands, on the bull-finches of Siberia and Japan, and
on Phasianus colchicus and its allies. Mr. Gurney contributes a paper
on Falco babylonicus and Falco barbarus and Mr. Styan describes a new
Trochalopteron from Yunnan, and gives an account of the birds of
Foochow. Mr. Hargett describes a new woodpecker, Gecinus gort from
Southern Afghanistan. Another paper enumerates the birds collected by
Prejevalski in his last expedition in Central Asia ; and Mr. R. Bowdler
Sharpe contributes papers on the birds of Fao, Bushire, and N. Borneo.
Little has been done for our Indian species beyond the continuation of Mr.
Murray’s ‘ Avi-fauna of British India,’ of which the third part has ap-
peared. This work, as previously stated, is intended to correct and
bring up to the present level of our knowledge Jerdon’s well-known
‘Birds of India.’ It will serve as a very useful guide to bridge over the
period between its issue and the publication of the results of the exami-
nation of Mr. A. O. Hume’s unequalled collection of Indian birds, now
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the property of the British Museum. In the Zettschrift f. d. ges. Orni-
thologie, we have an interesting paper by Dr. Blasius on the birds of
Celebes, and in the Bulletin of the St. Petersburgh Academy, one by
Prof. V. Bianchi, on the birds of EK. Bokhara. In the Annals, Mr. J. A.
Murray describes a new Zygena from Karachi; Dr. Ginther gives
notes on batrachians from Perak, and Mr. G. A. Boulenger describes
new batrachians from Corea and Malacca, and reptiles from Maskat,
Afghanistan, Sumatra, and Borneo.
Invertebrata.—The Zoological Society’s proceedings contain a paper
on earth-worms from the Nilgiris and Shevaroys by Mr. A. G. Bourne,
and on a collection of Echinodermata from the Andamans by Professor
F. J. Bell, whilst the conchologist has before him the continuations of
Godwin-Austen’s ‘ Land and Freshwater Mollusca of India,’ of Sower-
by’s ‘ Thesaurus conchyliorum,’ of Martini and Chemnitz’s ‘ Systemalis-
ches Oonchylien Cabinet,’ and of the great Philadelphian catalogue.
In the ‘ Madras Journal of Literature and Science,’ Mr. J. R. Henderson
has ‘Notes on the Madras species of Matuta,’ and Mr. H. 8S. Thomas
a paper on the pearl oyster of Mannar. Amongst minor papers,
mention may be made of those, by P. V. Gredler, on the shells of
China, and by S. Clessin on the shells of India, Borneo, and Sumatra
in. Malakozoologische Bliétter; by M. L. Morlet on the shells of Tong-
king in the ‘Journal de Conchyologie:’ by Dr. O. F. von Mollendorff
on the shells of the Philippines and by Dr. H. Pohlig on the landshells
of N. Persia, in the Jahrbiicher of the German Conchological Society,
and hy Dr. O. Bottger on the Melanide aud Neritina of China and
Japan in the same publication. In the Annals, Mr. H. A. Smith describes
some new shells from Sumatra, Java, and Borneo, and Mr. A. Dendy has
a paper ‘on the sponge-fauna’ of Madras. In the same Journal, Mr. F. W.
Pascoe describes some Asiatic Curculionide and Mr. C. O. Waterhouse
some Hrotylidw trom Batchian and New Guinea and Lucanide, Hutelide,
and Lamide from Perak. In the ‘ Annales’ of the Entomological
Society of Paris, M. Fairmaire describes some coleoptera from the
interior of China including Yunnan and Kiang-si, of some interest as
containing Huropean forms side by side with special, local and Asiatic
forms; and M. Fleutiaux brings forward others from Annam. In the
Journal of the LInnnean Society, we have a paper on the Oolydiide of
Ceylon by Mr. G. Lewis, and one by Mr. J. S. Baly on new species of
Galerucine. In the ‘ Revue d Hntomologie’, Dr. O. M. Reuter continues
his studies on Asiatic Rhynchota, and Mr. W. L. Distant in the ‘ Annals,’ .
describes Cicadide from S. India, China, and the Andamans, besides
giving a paper on Pentatomide in the ‘ Transactions of the Entomological
Society’ containing a number of new species collected by Mr. HE. T.
Atkinson in Sikkim,
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Tu the Zoological Society’s Proceedings, Colonel Swinhoe has a paper
on the Lepidoptera of Mhow, and Mr. H. J. Hlwes and Mr. L. de
Nicéville describe new Indian species. Mr. de Nicéville is also engaged
on the Lycceenide which will form the third part of his work on the
butterflies of India, Burma and Ceylon. In the ‘ Annals,’ Mr. H.
Grose Smith records new species of butterflies from N. Borneo, Celebes,
Philippines, Timor, Burma, and S. Afghanistan; Mr. W. L. Distant
furnishes notes on the Sphingide from the Malay Peninsula, and de-
scribes a new species of Ambulyx from North Borneo, and, with Mr. Pryer,
some Rhopalocera from the same tract. I would notice in the ‘ Journal
of the Bombay Natural History Society,’ the interesting chatty notes
entitled the ‘Waters of Western India’, and Captain Macpherson’s life-
history of Hestia malabarica. Mr. H. D. Morgan tells us that the
Russian naturalist, M. Grumm-Grshimailo examined carefully the lepi-
dopterous fauna of the Pamirs in 1884-85, and considers it to be distinct
from that of the Thian-Shan, so far as known, but it has many affinities
with that of the Hindu Kush, at least so far as types common to both
would appear to indicate. ‘The inference drawn from this fact is that
at the period when the lepidoptera (and therefore other orders as well)
of the Pamir were established, this region was in closer connection with
the countries to the south of it than with those to the north; in other
words, the Pamirs were then detached from the Thian-Shan. This may
be explained in two ways; (1) a non-synchronous upheaval of the two
mountain masses, or (2), if their upheaval took place at the same time,
there was a certain interval of time during which they were parted
from one another by a wide aqueous expanse, that is to say, at that period
_ the ranges which now unite the Pamir with the Thian-Shan were non-
existing, and Ferghana and Kashgar formed the bed of one sea—the
Tarim-Ferghana.’ I quote this suggestion at some length to show to
what ingenious purposes the geographical distribution of our insect
fauna may be applied. The ‘Mémoires sur les Lépidopteéres,’ edited by
N. M. Romanoff, and published in St. Petersburgh, contains many illus-
trated papers on the butterflies of Asiatic Russia and the neighbouring
countries.
Botany.—Since I last addressed you, Government has made an
arrangement by which the energies of Mr. J. F. Duthie, of the
Sahdranpur Botanic Garden, shall be almost exclusively devoted to
the botanical exploration of the northern part of the Empire. The
Flora of the whole of the North West frontier and of the Hima-
laya as far east ‘as Nepal, together with the plains provinces of
Sindh, the Panjab, Réjputana, the North West Provinces and Oudh,
can now thus be explored on a definite and well-organised plan. The
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hope which T expressed in my last annual address that we should soon
learn something of the botanical riches of the new province of Upper
Burma is being realised more speedily than I had ventured to expect.
For General Collett, an excellent and most enthusiastic botanist, has
already sent to the Herbarium of our Botanic’ Garden several most
interesting collections from the Shan hills. These collections contain
several species which appear to be new to science, and many which have
not been collected since Wallich’s visit to Burma sixty years ago:
and I learn from Dr. King that he has arranged for botanical collec-
tions being made at Bhamo. Thanks to the energy of Mr. G. Mann,
Conservator of Forests, the botany of the Assam hill ranges is being
eradually worked up, and the region between Assam and Burma will
soon (there is some reason to believe) cease to be botanically a terra in-
cognita. Mr. Mann appears at present to be the only Forest ‘officer in
Northern India who in any way forwards Botanical science, a state of
matters little creditable to the Forest Department which of all others
has the best and rarest materials at its disposal.
The chief work of public interest done in the Herbarium of the
Botanical Garden at Sibpur has been the preparation, by Dr. King, of a
monograph of the ‘Oaks and Chestnuts of South-Hastern Asia,’ similar
to the same author’s recently completed work on the ‘Figs’ of the
Indo-Chinese countries. Dr. Prain, the recently appointed Curator of the
Herbarium, has, I am informed, occupied part of his time in preparing a
monograph of the difficult herbaceous genus Pedicularis. This mono-
graph will probably see the ight during the current year.
' In the department of physiological Botany, our member Dr. D. D.
Cunningham, has been hard at work, and has completed a remarkable
memoir on the phenomena of movement in the leaves of the well-known
‘Sensitive plant.’ The cause of the movement has long been discussed
by biologists. For many years it was considered to be explained by a
mechanical theory, but Gardener and some recent writers have en-
deavoured to explain it by a theory of nervous or vitalenergy. This
theory has for its basis the new anatomical doctrine that the protoplas-
mic contents of neighbouring cells in this plant are connected by thin
threads, and that thus a kind of moniliform protoplastic tissue is formed.
These writers seek to explain the phenomena of movement by the
transmission along this continuous protoplasm of a low kind of nervous
force. The results of five hundred experiments and observations made
by Dr. Cunningham on living sensitive plants go to prove that, even .
were the protoplasmic continuity an indubitable fact, the movements
cannot be explained by any nervous force proceeding from the axis
of the plant to the extremities of its leaves. Although not on a
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botanical subject, another of Dr. Cunningham’s researches merits
notice here, as it is one in which every inhabitant of the Gangetic
delta is practically interested. Dr. Cunningham, in his memoir on the
nature of the sub-soil of -the neighbourhood of Calcutta, shows that
this soil is singularly porous in texture ; and that, in a cubic foot of it,
there is an air space equal to from one-fourth to one-third of its entire
bulk. When the air in this space is replaced by water, the mass as-
sumes a superficial resemblance to clay, although in fact it is a mixture
of sand and water in the proportions just stated.
I may also mention here that the ‘ Journal of the Bombay Natural
History Society’ contains interesting papers, by Mr. Birdwood, on the
flora of Mahableshwar and Matheran with a vernacular index, and
by Dr. Dymock on the Marathi names of plants. In the ‘ Annals,’ also,
we have a useful paper by Mr. G. Murray on the ‘Ceylon Alge in
the Herbarium of the British Museum.’
Geological Survey. Hconomic.—The most important economic work
of the Geological Survey during the year has been the examination of
the auriferous tracts of Mysore by Mr. Foote, who reports on all its
known gold localities and their capabilities. The more interesting
geological feature of his work lies in the fact that he has recognized a
transition series to which in Mysore, and in the country on towards
Dharwar, the gold bearing reefs are confined. This Dharwar series
may eventually turn out to include some, if not all, the many transition
eroups of the northern portion of the peninsular area of India; and
it is to be noted at the same time that the more decidedly metalliferous
deposits are confined to such transition rocks rather than to the great
crystalline or gneissic series. The next most interesting ore tract is
that of the manganese and iron near Jabalpur, which is again under
examination by Mr. Bose. Several new features have been noted which
may lead to a larger estimate of the distribution and, perhaps, extent of
the manganese ores than that put forth by Messrs. Medlicott and Mallet
in their original reports.
The estimate of the capabilities of the Chhatisgarh coal-field re-
mains unchanged, though a seam of workable coal has been discovered
and proved in one place near Korba. The example of the Mohpani
colliery, however, shows how necessary it is to carefully examine a
seam before expensive works are undertaken; and, here also, it would
be very hazardous to commence operations until further borings are made.
With regard to the other great coal areas in Chhatisgarh, which have
as yet given most indifferent and, in some cases, unreliable boring assays,
a few trial pits to test the coal in bulk are about to be carried out.
Mr. Oldham’s further explorations in Rajputana have not yielded any
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more promising evidence as to the coal possibilities in that region. Nor
does his report on the long-known bitumenous occurrence at Tijara in
Ulwar do more than confirm the conclusion formerly arrived at that
the substance is merely a superficial deposit of sandy clay, containing
vegetable organic matter, formed on the site of a deserted village. The
substance burns, but, owimg tothe small amount, is of no use except
locally for fuel. Mr. La Touche while employed by the Kashmir Darbar
im examining the sapphire deposits in the Zanskar district, the survey
of which has not yet been completed, has also explored the coal outcrops
at Jammu, originally brought to notice by Mr. Medlicott. He is inclined
to look hopefully on the occurrence, provided some method can be devised
for compressing the very crushed and powdery fuel procurable into
bricks. The one coal-field (Singareni) in the Madras Presidency is at
last being worked under the direction of Mr. Hughes, and we may now
hope for extended and definite information regarding its capabilities ;
and, by comparison, the possibilities of the other areas of coal-measures
known to occur further to the west in the Godavari Valley. The Singa-
reni field has always laboured under the disadvantage of being known
only to the Geological Survey by its one outcrop and its area. The
borings made, though on the sites marked out by Dr. King, were not
put down under the direction of the Survey and consequently nothing
is known by it of the character or quality of the samples of coal, or of
carbonaceous shale (as it is feared some of them were) brought up from
the borings. Though Upper Burmah has not yet come under the sys-
tematic work of the Survey, Mr. EH. J. Jones has been able to send in
some useful reports on the principal coal fields, and on the metalliferous
mines in the Shan Hills.
Scientific—Much and interesting information has been obtained on
matters bearing strictly on scientific geology. The discussion on the
geology of the Salt Range, arising out of Dr. Warth’s find of concre-
tions, and pebbly concretions containing Conularia, in the boulder bed at
the base of the “‘speckled sandstones”’ and the ‘olive shales,’ and its
bearing on the original observations of Wynne and Waagen, and the
later ones of Oldham, has ceased for the present ; and the old term ‘ olive
shales’ (presumed cretaceous) will now be discarded as a formational
group, it being really identical with the “speckled sandstones” of the
western portion of the range, of which the palzozoic (or ‘ upper car-
boniferous,’ according to Dr. Waagen’s latest conclusions) age was
already inferred or known. So much being settled, the term ‘speckled .
sandstone’ will stand in the Salt Range nomenclature and classification.
Mr. Oldham has also visited Lad&ék and Kashmir with a view to
determining how far the discrepancies between the sequence of beds
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in Kashmir as described by Mr. Lydekker, and that of the Simla region
were real. His report brings out points in what we may term the new
view of the origin of the crystalline rocks, in the working out of
which Col. C. A. Macmahon has done such excellent service, and to the
microscopic study of which Mr. C. 8S. Middlemiss is now applying him-
self. The difficulty of distinguishing between gneissose granite and
granitoid gneiss, still exists and gives rise to much diversity of opinion ;
and, perhaps too, the origin and recognition of the gneisses themselves
are as controversial subjects among geologists as any. It is, therefore,
interesting to notice that Mr. Oldham is at times, (particularly regard-
ing the ‘central gneiss’ of the Wangar Valley) as decided in his re-
cognition of their sedimentary origin from well defined and parallel
beds differing in lithological and mineralogical structure, as some of
his predecessors of so far back as 1857. While crossing the Babeh
Pass, Mr. Oldham noted that one of the most striking features is
the marked absence of distinct traces of glaciers south of the pass
and their presence north of it; on the latter side glacier evidences
extend to a distance of 3000 feet below and 17 miles from the crest,
while onthe south no certain traces can be found below 1000 feet,
or about half a mile from the summit. Mr. Oldham remarks that this
difference is paralleled by the present distribution of ice, and that the
contrast is doubtless due to the fact that the waste is much less on
the north than on the south side, not only from the intensity of the
sunshine being less, but to a much larger extent owing to the com-
parative absence of rain, little of which falls north of the pass, while
there is probably a much less proportional difference in the snow-fall.
Regarding the very interesting question of the origin of the
Rupshu lakes, Mr. Oldham does not think that the simple view of their
arising out of the damming up of river valleys by the fans of their
tributaries is completely satisfactory. In some cases, it may be that
these fans form the entire barriers: but it would seem that local eleva-
tion of the river valley at a more rapid rate than that of the erosion
of the river must be brought in as an ultimate cause. Mr. Oldham also
suggests that the gradual and progressive drying up of Ladak appears
to have been a direct result of the gradual elevation of the Himalaya,
which in course of time cut off a larger and larger proportion of the
moisture coming from the south. The lake basin and karewahs of
Kashmir, which have hitherto been accounted for, either by a glacier
descending into the Jhelam Valley, or by the formation of a talus
fan similar to the supposed barriers of the Rupshu lakes, rather than
by the more obvious hypothesis of a rock barrier since cut through, have
also received notice from the same writer. He again falls back on the
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supposition that, during the elevation of the Himalaya, there have
been times when the rocky bed of a river has been elevated more rapidly
than it could erode its channel, a deposit being formed above the
barrier; and that this is the case in Kashmir, the greater extent of
the valley being partly due to its drainage escaping across the junc-
tion of the Pir Panja4l and Hazdra systems of disturbance, a region
which may well have been exposed to more repeated or extensive
upheavals than other parts of the HimAlaya.
Mr. R. Lydekker has added to the utility and completeness of the
‘ Records of the Survey,’ by his excellent resumé of the ‘Fossil Verte-
brata of India;’ and his description of the ‘Eocene Chelonia of the
Salt Range,’ forms the new fasciculus of the ‘ Paleontologia Indica.’
The issue of the concluding part of Dr. Waagen’s great work on the
‘Productus Limestone Fossils’ of the Salt Range has only been tem-
porarily delayed. Professor Martin Duncan’s “notes on the Hehinoidea
of the ecretaceous series in the Lower Narbada Valley,” published by
the Survey, and arising out of the views put forward by Mr. P. N.
Bose in his memoir on the geology of the Lower Narbada Valley, is, as
might be expected, a scholarly and courteous consideration of these
views ; and following this, it is eminently satisfactory to learn from Dr.
Noetling, the Paleontologist of the Survey, that his examination of the
Ammonitide collected by Mr. Bose, entirely confirms Dr. Dunean’s ori-
ginal conclusions regarding the exclusively Cenomanian age of these
Bag fossils.
Meteorelogy.—There is not much to record m the science of mete-
orology in India during the past year, though steady progress is undoubt-
edly being made both in Europe and India. The recent visit of a
distinguished English meteorologist has, judging from his subsequent
writings, been the means of calling attention to what has been pointed
out by Indian workers for years, the marked differences between the
meteorology of Temperate (Huropean) and Tropical (Indian) regions.
Rain, for example, occurs in India in many cases under conditions dif-
ferent from those obtaining in Hurope. Several of the more important
features of cyclones are far more prominent in the Bay of Bengal thau
in the Atlantic, whilst others again are much less strongly marked,
Ascensional movement of the air oceurs on a larger, grander scale, and
far more regularly than in Europe, exercising a powerful influence on
the character of the weather. In India, weather forecasting must, there-
fore, probably take a different course from that which it has done in
Hurope and America, and indeed the forecasts of storms in the Bay
of Bengal are more satisfactory and more to be relied upon than of those
which visit the British shores from the Atlantic.
1888. ] "Election of Office-bearers and Members of Council. 71
The forecast of weather in India for 24 hours in advance is, for the
greater part of the year, a very easy matter, though, owing to the great
distances, it is not easy to disseminate the information in time to be of
practical value to those immediately interested. Seasonal forecasts have
now been attempted with fair success for some years; and it is this
branch of the science which seems likely to develop into a very useful
aid to the administration. The recent disastrous shipwrecks drew at
tention to the storm-signal service for the protection of the Highli and
its approaches, and to the necessity for connecting Port Blair with the
Meteorological office in Calcutta, and the Hastern Channel Light-ship
by a cable with the mainland, in order to watch the progress of the
larger cyclones. I regret that neither of these measures has, as yet,
been carried into execution. Arrangements have, however, been
made for warning all the more important ports in the Bay of
Bengal from Maulmain to Negapatam of the existence and approach
of dangerous storms, and arrangements are in progress for warning
the ports at present unprotected on the Bombay side, which, when
completed, will place the whole coast of India in communication with
the telegraphic signal service.
The daily report, issued by the Simla office and based on observa-
tions at about 100 stations, has been considerably improved during the
past year. It is now issued with a chart shewing the distribution
of pressure, rainfall, wind direction and force throughout India for the
day reported on. The charts of the Arabian Sea shewing the mean
distribution of pressure, wind and currents, month by month, have been
published on the same plan as those of the Bay of Bengal, noticed by
me last year. Charts of the Bay of Bengal, shewing the specific gravity,
distribution of the temperature of the air and of the surface water, have
also been issued, and similar charts for the Arabian Sea are in prepara-
tion, thus completing the work commenced some years ago on marine
meteorology, and based on the observations accumulated by the Board
of Trade, during the years 1855—1878.
The Presipent announced that the Scrutineers reported the result
of the election of Office-Bearers and Members of Council to be as
follows :—
President.
Lieut.-Col. J. Waterhouse, B. S. C.
Vice-Presidents.
B. T. Atkinson, Esq., B. A., C. S.
Raja Rajendralala Mitra, C. I. H., D. L.
J. Wood-Mason, Esq.
72 Monthly Meeting. [ Fes.
Secretaries and Treasurer.
J. Wood-Mason, Hsq.
Dr. A. F. R. Hoernle.
H. M. Percival, Esq., M. A.
A. Pedler, Hsq., F. C.'8.
Other Members of Cowneit.
D. Waldie, Esq., F. C. S.
C. H. Tawney, Hsq., M. A.
Babu Pratépa Chandra Ghosha, B. A.
Hon. Dr. Mahendralal Sarkar, C. I. Hi.
E. Gay, Hsq., M. A.
Pandit Mah4mahopddhydya Maheschandra Nydyaratna, C. 1. B.
H. Beveridge, Esq., C. 8.
W. King, Esq., B. A., D. Se.
Nawab Abdul Latif Bahadur, C. I. H.
A. Simson, Esq.
Dr. J. Scully.
Pandit Haraprasdd Sastri, M. A.
The meeting was then resolved into the Ordinary Monthly General
meeting.
Lr.-Con. Waternouse on taking the chair said :—
GuntLEMEN,—I have to tender you my warm acknowledgments for
the great and unexpected honour you have done me in electing me
to the honourable and responsible position of President of this Society.
{ must own my first impulse was to decline the honour in favour of
some one possessing better scientific or literary qualifications, and with
more time at his disposal to devote to the service of the Society.
Friends, however, dissuaded me from taking a step which might have
appeared ungracious, or due to a desire to evade duties which my long
connection with the Council of the Society seemed to render incumbent
upon me. I therefore resolved to accept the post if it were the pleasure
of the Society that I should do so, and endeavour to fulfil its responsibili-
ties to the best of my power. I need not say that personally it is very
gratifying to me to be in a position to advance the interests of the Society.
I can only regret that the rules of the Society prevented the longer
continuance in office of our late esteemed President, who has done so
much to aid the work of the Society both in the Philological and Natural
History Departments, and I would propose that a vote of thanks be
passed to him for his great services to the Society during his term of
office. (The vote of thanks was carried unanimously.)
1888. ] Lt.-Col. Cunningham—Letter on Monge’s Hquation. 73
After the very able and interesting exposition of the work of the
Society Mr. Atkinson has just given us I need not enter into that subject,
and can only hope that notwithstanding my want of qualification for the
post of President, the Society may at any rate not go back in its career
of usefulness.
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed.
Thirty-three presentations were announced, details of which are
given in the Library List appended.
The following gentlemen, duly proposed and seconded at the last
meeting of the Society, were ballotted for and elected Ordinary Members.
Dr. A. Alcock.
W. L. Sclater, Esq.
H. H. Anderson, Esq.
Major C. H. H. Adamson.
W. H. Lee, Esq.
Hon. Ajodhyanath Pandit.
The following gentleman has intimated his wish to withdraw from
the Society.
EK. F. Mondy, Esq.
The PresipENT announced that, in accordance with Rules 37 and 38
of the Society’s Bye Laws, the names of the following gentlemen had been
posted up as defaulting members since the last monthly General Meeting,
and would now be removed from the list of Members, and the fact
published in the Proceedings.
Sirdar Gurdyal Sing.
Rev. A. E. Medlycott.
The PRESIDENT announced that Babu Gaurdas Baisék had com-
pounded for his subscription for life as a Non-Resident member by the
payment in a single sum of Rs. 100.
Babu SaratcHANDRA DAs exhibited the charmed horn called Than-
rva, used by the Tantriks of Tibet.
The Naturat History Secretary read the following letter from
Lieut.-Col. Allan Cunningham, R. H. remarking upon a statement con-
tained in Babu Asutosh Mukhopadhyay’s paper on ‘‘ Monge’s Differen-
tial Equation to all Conics,” published in the Journal, Part II, No. 2 for
1887 :—
Brompton Barracks, Chatham, England, 29th December, 1887,
“At page 134 of Part II, No. 2, of the Journal of the Asiatic Society
74 A. Mukhopidhyay— Remarks on Monge’s Hquation. [Fss.
of Bengal for 1887 there is a Paper on “ Monge’s Differential Equation
to all Conics”’ wherein the author quotes the late Dr. Boole’s remark
that our powers of geometrical interpretation fail for this equation, (and
presumably for nearly all except those of straight line and circle).
I would refer your readers to Vol. XIV of the Quarterly Journal of
Pure and Applied Mathematics for 1877, page 226, wherein I gave three
general geometric interpretations of differential equations in general.
These were as follows :—
1. The curve whose differential equation is of the mh order can
be drawn so as to satisfy m independent consistent conditions.
2. If the mth order differential equation of a curve F be satisfied
at any point of another curve f, then these curves have contact at that
point of the m** order (one degree higher than ordinary).
3. All fundamental geometric quantities (e. g. lengths, areas,
eccentricities &c) connected with a variable curve F possessing m degrees
of freedom and osculating in the highest or (m—1) degree another fixed
curve of same species, similarly conditioned, are constant right round
the latter.
This last condition is the generalized form of those given by Boole
for the straight line and circle: the interpretation of the Mongian thus
becomes :—“ The eccentricity of the osculating conic of a given conic is
constant all round the latter.”” For proofs, see the paper referred to.”
Basu AsutosH MuxnoprApuyAy made the following remarks in reply :
Mr. PresipDENT AND GENTLEMEN,
When my paper on Monge’s equation was read before the Society,
I was not aware of Lt.-Col. Cunningham’s paper, and, in fact, I had
not the opportunity of examining it till I had learnt the contents of
the letter which has just been read to you. With reference to the letter,
and the paper to which we are referred therein, I will remark in the
first place that they do not touch upon any of the vital points discussed
in my paper. You may remember that my paper on Monge’s equation
was devoted principally to a consideration of four things, viz., the easiest
way of forming the Mongian differential equation from the integral
equation of the conic, the integration of the Mongian by ordinary
methods,* the permanency of form of the equation, and lastly, a cri-
* T find that in the Messenger of Mathematics, (Vol. XVII, pp. 118—145, Decem-
ber 1887 to February 1888), there is a paper by Col. Cunningham on the Depression
of Differential Equations, the chief object of which seems to be the solution of the
Mongian equation in different ways; I find that my transformation (Journal, A. S. B.
Vol. LVI, Part IJ, p. 188) is reproduced on pp. 141—142, of course, without the
slightest acknowledgement that it had been given before by me; that the Colonel
was acquainted with my paper at the date of the publication of his article, is now
sufficiently obvious, and his reasons for not acknowledging that the transformation
in question had been given six months before by me, are best known to him,
1888. ] A. Mukhopadhyay—Remarks on Monge’s Equation. 75
ticism of Professor Sylvester’s geometrical interpretation of the equation.
Under this last head, which I consider to be the most important part of
my paper, I pointed out that Professor Sylvester’s interpretation was not
anything like the one which had been sought for by mathematicians,
and I took care to explain as fully and as clearly as I could, my reasons
for differing from that eminent authority. To none of these points do
the Colonel’s remarks refer.* On the other hand, he takes objection to
the statement which I incidentally made that as Professor Sylvester’s
interpretation cannot be accepted, the true interpretation has yet to be
found; and the Colonel claims to have given the true interpretation in
a paper published by him eleven years ago in the Quarterly Journal of
Mathematics (Vol. XIV, 226—229). Before enquiring into the correct-
ness or otherwise of the interpretation given in that paper, I may point
out that Professor Sylvester’s interpretation, which in my former paper
was proved to be untenable, was given in 1886, and, while giving his
own interpretation, the Professor not only made no mention of the
Colonel’s paper, but in fact seemed to hold, at least implicitly,f that he
was himself the first person to give the true interpretation. Now, this
could arise only in one of two ways, wiz., either Professor Sylvester
had some doubts as to the soundness of the interpretation given by Col.
Cunningham, or he was not at all aware of the Colonel’s interpretation ;
as to the improbability of the latter assumption, I will simply say that
Professor Sylvester’s name appears as that of one of the editors on the
title-page of that very volume of the Quarterly Journal which contains
the Colonel’s paper.
I shall now proceed to consider the Colonel’s interpretation, and, I
may tell you at once that after a very careful consideration of the sub-
ject, I have come to the conclusion that it is not at all the true inter-
pretation of the Mongian equation. As there seems to be a total mis-
_ conception about the true nature of the process of geometrical inter-
pretation of differential equations, I shall first point out as clearly as
I can, what I consider to be the only logical and correct view of the
subject. In the first place, then, the integral equation of every curve
contains a certain number of available arbitrary constants, by assigning
particular values to which we may obtain all the curves of the family ;
the differential equation, on the other hand, being free from constants,
denotes all the curves of the system. Now, it is well-known that the
differential equation always comes out in the form
FF = 0;
* I may mention here that Professor Cayley in a letter to me from Cambridge
(14th September, 1887) remarks about my criticism of Professor Sylvester, that “ it
is, of course, all perfectly right.”
+ See American Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 1X, pp. 18—19,
76 A. Mukhopadhyay—Remarks on Monge’s Equation. [ Fue.
where F is a certain function of the variables and the differential co-
efficients; and, the process of geometrical interpretation of the dif-
ferential equation is simply the process of discovering the geometrical
meaning of the quantity which we have denoted by F; in other words,
we are required to find out a geometrical quantity, represented by F,
which vanishes at every point of every curve of the system whose
differential equation is
iE =e 0;
It is clear, therefore, that there are two tests which may be applied if we
wish to examine whether a proposed interpretation of a given differ-
ential equation is relevant or not, viz.,
1. The interpretation must give a property of the curve whose
differential equation we are interpreting; in fact, it must give a geo-
metrical quantity which vanishes at every point of every curve of
the system.
2. The geometrical quantity must be adequately represented by
the differential equation to be interpreted.
To illustrate these propositions, let us first take the simple case of
a straight line; the integral equation being
y= mn + b,
the differential equation is
d®y
“ae = 0,
and the interpretation clearly is that the curvature vanishes at every
point of every straight line.
Again, in the case of the circle, the integral equation being
wo + y® + 2qe + 2fy + c= 0,
the differential equation is
dy\2) dy dy (2 2
ie: (7) jos om 219,
and the only true geometrical interpretation of this equation is that the
angle of aberrancy vanishes at every point of every circle.
Let us now take Col. Cunningham’s interpretation, viz., the eccen-
tricity of the osculating conic of a given conic is constant all round
the latter. From what I have already explained to you, it is clear that
this cannot be the geometric interpretation of the Mongian equation ;
it fails to furnish a geometrical quantity which, while adequately re-
presented by the differential equation, vanishes at every point of every
conic; in fact, it satisfies neither of the fundamental tests I have laid >
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. The fourth section contains
an interesting geometrical interpretation of the analytical transformation
in Poisson’s remarkable result; the geometrical property used is the
well-known relation between the true and eccentric anomalies, with
which we are familar in the planetary theory ; in conclusion, the geo-
metrical interpretation leads to a definite integral which is evaluated.
The paper will be published in the Journal, Part IT for 1888.
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PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL,
FoR Marcu, 1888,
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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.
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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
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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;
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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
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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
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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 <ryamsuvarma;
the first ‘akshara’ is not Ya but % srya, at least it is distinctly so on
the coins figured in my plate. The presence of the ‘anusvara’ is
doubtful. The legend, in fact, is exactly the same as that occurring
in some of king Amsuvarman’s inscriptions, published by Pandit
Bhagvanlal Indraji in the Indian Antiquary, Vol. IX, for 1880 (see,
e. g., Inscription, No. 8, p. 171).
“The reverse legend of Nos. III Mr. Bendall reads S}ufaat sré
Bhagint, and suggests that it refers to the sister of king Amsuvarman,
who is recorded (in Inscription, No. 7,in Ind. Ant., Vol. IX, p. 171) to
have dedicated a ‘linga’toa temple of Pasupati. The figure which
accompanies the legend, he describes as a ‘ squatting figure of Buddha.’
This is certainly incorrect; at least, on the specimens figured on my
plate, the figure is clearly that of a female, squatting on a lotus, the
petals and stalk of which are distinctly seen; and the legend is
aiifaat sz bhogind, ‘the enjoyable one.’ There is a similar connection
between the legend and the image, as that pointed out by Mr. Bendall
in the case of the legend kdmadehé (on his No. 1).
“The legend on the obverse of Nos. III is read aTaHIg mandnka
by Mr. Bendall. Iread the name dcubtfully Weng pundnka or Alar<
maninka. I nowagree with Mr. Bendall that, for the reasons suggest-
ed by him, the name must be read mdnanka. The legend, however, is
not simply atatg mdndnka, but (at least on the specimens I have seen)
Salary Ssrimandnka.
‘“ Hrom Mr. Bendall’s remarks on these coins (his Nos. 1-12) it
would seem that he ascribed them all to king Amsuvarman. The coins,
Nos. II and IV, certainly belong to that king; for they bear his name.
But I doubt the ascriptions of the Sri-mandnka coins to him. The
116 Dr. Hoernle—On some Ancient Nepalese Coins. [ Marcu,
prefix sri, I think, shows that the name mdndnka must be that of a king ;
and the name Ssri-bhoginé on the reverse might be taken to be an allu-
sion to the king Amsguvarman’s sister Bhogadevi. In that case the
name Mandinka must be another name or a biruda of king Amsuvar-
man. Now in the time of the latter king there were two ruling families
in Nepal {see Fleet, Harly Chronology of Nepal, in the Indian Antiquary,
Vol. XIV, p. 350), the Thakuri family residing in the palace (bhavana)
of Kailasakita, and the Lichchhavi family residing in the palace (grtha)
of Mina. A member of the latter family might call himself by a name
derived from their residence, mandnka, ‘ the mana-marked,’ or ‘ he of
Mana.’ But Amsuvarman belonged to the Thakuri*family, and he
could not well bear the birwda of Mandanka. But there is a king of the
Lichchhavi family who does call himself, after his residence, Manadeva,
‘the Lord of Mana.’ For him Mananka would be a most appropriate
biruda. I am disposed, therefore, to ascribe the Sri-mdndnka coins
(Nos. 8) to king Manadeva.
“There remains the coin No.1. The name of the king on the ob-
verse is nearly illegible. The reverse shows distinctly the title of Ma-
harajidhirdja. This title was borne only by two kings of Nepal of that
period (6th and 7th centuries), viz., AmSuvarman and Sivadeva II, both
of the Thakuri family. Two aksharas only are visible on the obverse.
The first resembles closely the first akshara on the obverse of the coins
Nos. II, and looks like wy sryam. This could only be read as the com-
mencement of sryamsuvarma. The second letter I read as 4 go or & ge ;
it might, however, be fw and in that case the name would be Srésivadeva.
Till other specimens are found, the question must be left undecided.
‘“ Amguvarman reigned from about 637 to 651 A. D., Mdnadeva
from about 705 to 732 A. D., and Sivadeva from about 725 to 749
A.D. The coins, therefore, belong to the 7th and 8th centuries A. D.
“ {do not think the object which the lon is ‘ pawing’ can bea
vine-branch, as Mr. Bendall describes it. On the specimens I have
seen, the object, when present, is clearly a flower, made up of six dots
in a circle with one dot in the centre, and a stalk below it (see fig. ITT,
a and III,c). Mr. Smith speaks of a “sort of standard in front of the
lion,” on one coin. This might be the “vine-branch”’; but I have not
been able to identify the coin referred to.”
4, Akbar and Father Jerome Xavier.—By H. Brverines, Esq.,
oa.
This paper will be published in the Journal, Part I.
5. On the nature of the Toxic principle of Aroidee.—By C. H. T.
Warpen, Esq., F. C. S. and A. Prbuer, Esea., F.C. S.
This paper will be published in the Journal, Part IT.
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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.
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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
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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¥<sTyA behind the
king’s back, the vowel marks being clipped off ; fa between the king’s
and the horse’s head ; faufa <atatz +++ in front and below the horse ;
there would be space for about six more letters behind the horse,
joining the two preserved portions of the legend, though possibly the
whole of the space was not occupied by letters. I would suggest to
restore the legend thus: wenisafa-fafaqfa-<aine [fasre-Hateae |
mahdrdjapati—kshitipati—rathipdda—vijaya—Kumdra—Guptah, 4%. e@.,
“the lord of Mahdrajas, the lord of the earth, the famous chariot-man,
132 Dr. Hoernle—On new Bactrian and Gupta Coins. [ Apri,
the victorious Kumara Gupta.” The reading of the preserved portion
of the legend, as above given, is practically certain, except the akshara
BY thd, the consonant of which is too blurred to be recognizable, and
the vowel might be a long a. The bracketed portion of the reading
1 have supplied from another specimen of the ‘“ Horseman to left ”
type in the Society’s collection (see Proceedings, A. 8S. B., for 1882, pp.
111—114, also J. A. 8S. B., vol. LIII, p. 194). The reverse has, as
usual, the legend wfaaAesy ajita-Mahendra, 7. e., “the unconquered
Mahendra’’, and a female figure seated on a morhd, holding a fillet in
her right, and a long-stalked lotus in her left hand. There is no mono-
eram. The weight is 123°75 grains.
Nos. 7, 8, 9 are new specimens of later Indo-Scythic coins, or
“link-coins””’ as Prinsep called them. They have been discussed by the
late Mr. E. Thomas ina paper in the Indian Antiquary, Vol. XII, p. 6.
No. 7 is evidently the oldest and purest. Along the obverse rim (to be
read from outside the coin) there are mutilated traces of the well-known
Indo-Scythic legend, in Greek characters, PAO (in front of the king’s
face). In the angle, formed by the king’s left armpit, there appears to
be the letter 4 ga or & Sa; in the field outside the spear, there are two
letters, apparently Hgasha or @ tasha; at the left-hand bottom, there
seems to be fa vw or perhaps @ kha. The reverse also shows traces of
the Greek letters oxpo(?) mn a very debased form. Weight 121 grains.
No. 8 very closely resembles a specimen figured and described in
Mr. Thomas’ paper (ibid., p. 9). The obverse has te kirda under the
kine’s left arm. Along the right-hand margin there is g gadaha; and
in the left bottom of the field, between the fire-altar (partially visible on
the rim) and the king’s legs, there are three very minute and not very
distinct letters placed beside (not above) one another. The first appears
to be a compound letter, though I cannot identify it with Mr. Thomas’
reading (kshana) ; the other two look like ¥t pura. The reverse, with
the usual figure of the enthroned goddess, shows two letters (above one
another) on the right-hand margin, q yasha. Weight 118, 25.
No. 9 is the crudest and latest specimen. The obverse apparently
has 3 kkida (or te kirda) under the king’s left arm; under his right
arm there are two characters, which seem clearly to read au basa. The
reverse, with a crude enthroned goddess, shows on the right-hand margin
traces of V3 . Taq Sr[¢] pri. va[r]mma. Weight 112°5 grains.
Besides the above-mentioned, I received from Mr. H. Rivett-Carnac
other twelve gold and one silver coins. All these, however, belong to
well-known types and varieties that have been already published, Among
a
1888. | Dr. Hoernle—On new Bactrian and Gupta Coins. 133
them there are four gold Indo-Scythians ; viz., one Kadphises, with king’s
head to left (as in Ariana Antiqua, Plate X, figs. 8, 10, 11), weight 97°175
grains; one Kanerki with MAO reverse (as zbid., Plate XII, fig. 1),
weight 119°75 grains; and two Bazodeo, with OKPO reverse (OKPO
to be read from the rim of the coin, (as ibid., plate XIV, fig. 14),
except that there is a nimbus round Siva’s head, (as zbid., figs. 12,
13) ; one of the two coins is slightly broader and thinner, but without
any trace of that slight concavity generally shown by the thinner
specimens of Bazodeo’s coins; weight 112,5 grains; the other weighs
125°825 grains. The Kadphises and Kanerki coins, I may add, belong
to Mr. Sykes.
The remainder are all Gupta coins; viz., 1, one Ghatotkacha, with a
very fine reverse (as in J. A.8.B., vol. LIII, pl. I, fig. 1), weight
125,825 grains.
2, four Chandra Gupta II., ‘ Archer” type, with lotus seat reverse
(as ibid., pl. III, figs. 1,2); one of the ordinary kind, weight 123,75
grains; one has the @ ka doubled in the rev. legend, weight 125,825
grains; another shows a circle (or wheel) over the king’s right shoulders
(as in var. B, zbid., p. 180), weight 125°75 grains ; and one appears to be
a cast forgery, weights 92,075 grains.
3, one Kumara Gupta, belenging to Mr. Sykes, of the “‘ Combatant
lion” type (as ibid, p. 197, pl. IV, fig. 3), weight 119°75 grains; the
obverse legend is very imperfect ; on left margin there are traces of three
letters, the last two of which look like #a# krama (perhaps fama vikrama) ;
on the right margin there are traces of seven letters, the first two looking
like @ at dya Sri, and the last like g kw ; there must have been other letters
below the king and behind the lion, joining the two preserved portions,
and making up HALA TA Kumara Guptasya, the initial EJ kw of which is
preserved. ‘The reverse legend reads clearly HATA ATT Kumara
Guptidhiradjno (not merely Kumara Guptadhiraja).
4, one Skandagupta, “ Archer” type (as ibid., p. 19€), weight
142,175 grains.
5, apparently a crude imitation of Chandra Gupta’s coins of the
*¢ Archer” type; the name under the king’s right arm is a mere scroll;
the reverse legend is fairly legible as 3¥ fama Sri-Vikrama; weight
146:25 grains.
6, a silver Gupta coin of the “ peacock ” type, but with the legend
quite illegible, weight 28,125 grains.
ODD ee eee
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PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL,
oR May, 1888.
GAD
——
The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was
held on Wednesday, the 2nd May, 1888, at 9.15 p. mu.
Lieut.-Con. J. WATERHOUSE, President, in the Chair.
The following members were present :
Ki. T. Atkinson, Hsq., P. N. Bose, Esq., Babu Gaurdas Bysack, H. C.
Cotes, Hsq., E. Gay, Hsq., EH. J. Jones, Hsq., Babu Asutosh Mukhopa-
dhyay, L. de Nicéville, Hsq., R. D. Oldham, Esq., A. Pedler, Esq., H. M.
Percival, Esq., T. A. Pope, Esq., Abdur Rahman, Esq., Dr. P. K. Ray,
H. M. Rustomjee, Esq., W. L. Sclater, Esq., D. Waldie, Esq.
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed.
Thirty-one presentations were announced, as detailed in the ap-
pended Library List.
The following gentleman, duly proposed and seconded at the last
meeting of the Society, was ballotted for and elected an Ordinary
Member :
Nawab Mir Mahomed Ali.
The following gentlemen are candidates for election at the next
meeting :
A. P. Pennell, Esq., C. 8., proposed by J. Crawfurd, Esq., seconded
by A. Pedler, Esq.
Kumar Devendra Narayan Roy, proposed by Babu Gaurdas Bysack,
seconded by H. M. Percival, Esq.
Maulvi Kabiruddin Ahmad, Khan Bahadur, (for re-election), pro-
posed by Babu Gaurdas Bysack, seconded by H. M. Percival, Esq.
Babu Peary Mohun Roy, proposed by Babu Gaurdas Bysack,
seconded by Lt.-Col. Waterhouse.
140 Philological Secretary—LReport on Coins. [ May,
The following gentlemen have intimated their wish to withdraw
from the Society :
W. D. Blyth, Hsq., C. S.
B. L. Gupta, Esq., C. 8.
The PresipENT announced that the Council had sanctioned expen-
diture up to Rs. 500 for the purpose of carrying out enquiries as to the
cause of the explosive sounds known as “ Barisal guns,” with reference _
to the paper on the subject read at the March meeting of the Society.
The Purnonocican Srcrerary read the following report on a find of
Treasure Trove Coins in the Sialkot District :—
Report on 125 old coins forwarded by the Deputy Commissioner
of Sialkot, with his No. 521, dated 23rd March, 1888.
1. The coins are stated to have been found as follows: 13 were
dug from a mound of earth at Nangal Satkan, Tahsil Zafarwal; 38
were found buried in a sugarcane-field in Chak Ram Dass, Tahsil Dos-
ka; 74 were found in digging at the banks of a swamp in Mouzah
Saddhar, Tahsil Pasrur. There is no means of identifying the coins
belonging to these several finds.
2. All the coins, with the exception of one, are (silver) Rupees
of the following Moghul Emperors of Delhi.
No. of specimens.
I, Sain Jandy, 1087—1068 A. H. = 1627—1658
A. DD.
a, Type I, two square areas, date 1050, 13—mint
Strat, others illegible ; ..........4. 4)
b, Type II, one round area; mint, iste ‘apie 1
c, Type ITI, lettered plained 1041, 1044, Multan. 2
II. Avranezis, 1068—1118 A. H. = 1658—1707 A. D.
a, Type I, lettered surfaces, dates 1099*—1102
—1103— 1108— 1109— 1110—1111?—1112
—11138—1115—1116—1117—1118; Mints:
Strat,* Patnah, Daru-z-Zafar (Akbarabad ?),
Daru-s-Saltanat Lahor®, Etaw4, Bareli, Mus-
taqiru-l-Khilafat Akbarabad, ...........c00ese 19
b, Type II, two square areas, 1096, Akbarabad... 1
III. Banivur Sudu, 1119—1124 A. H. = 1707—1712
A. D.
Two different types of lettered surfaces, dates
1121, mints : Daru-s-Saltanat Lahor, Daéru-l-
khilafat Shahjahanabad, Daru-s- ?) 4
1888. | W. L. Sclater—Hahibit by— 141
No. of
specimens.
IV. Faroxn Sfr, 1124—1131 A. H. = 1712—1719
for:
Two different types of lettered surfaces; dates :
1127, 1128, 11304, mints: Daru-s-Saltanat
Lahor*, Daru-l-khilafat Shahjahanabad P ... 6
V. Rari’up Darassr,
Date 11381, mint: Daru-l-khilafat Shah-
jahanabad |) isscas. oes 1
VI. Muousammap SHAn, 11311161 y ee — - 17191748
A. D.
a, Type I, Sahib Qiran, two varieties, dates
various ; mint of all: Daru-l-khilafat Shah-
jalisdened Laas as bie o4
b, Type II, Badshah Ghizt Juae 1142, 1145 as
others, mints: Ddaru-s-Saltanat Lahor!®,
Kora*, Daru-l-khilafat Akbarabad?, Multan... 23
VII. Aumep SuHdw 1161—1167 A. H. = 1748—1754
A.D,
T'wo varieties of lettered surfaces ; dates: 1161,
1162, 1163, 1165 and others, mints: Daru-s-
Saltanat Lahor?, Ahmadabad, Bhirat......... 12
~ VIII. Atameir Zan’, 1167—1175 A. H. = 1754—1761
page 1
Type 1, Alamgir, dates 1172%, mint : Daru-s-Sal-
tanat Lahor® ......... Le 6
Type UU, Azizuddin, ae 11735, sia i gees S-
Saltanat Lahor’, Attak .. Pe LG eeu ees 10
Total... 124
3d. IX. One coin is a Rupee of Nadir Shah, struck in
Peshawer, in the year 1153 A. H. = 1740 A. D. during his
REAM CU ay aint clin ainiads ie Helv ain Melanie alan een 0 Uoides'ese obo av’ 1
eee
Grand total.., 125
Mr. BR. D. Otnuam exhibited some flexible sandstones and made a
few remarks thereon.
Mr, W. L. Scare exhibited the head and antlers of a stag from
Darjecling.
142 Dr. Crombie & A. Pedler—On the Dacca Tornado. [ Mav,
The following paper was read—
An account of the Dacca Tornado of April 7th, 1888, by Dr. A.
Cromsig, Civil Surgeon, Dacca, with a short description of the Meteorology
of Bengal at that period.—By A. Pupier, Esq, F.C. S.
(Abstract. )
The opening part of the paper by Mr. Pedler consists first of a short
explanation of the manner in which tornadoes differ in their phenomena
from the ordinary storms such as cyclones &c. which visit Bengal. The
second part gives a very short account of the few well-authenticated
cases of tornadoes which have previously occurred in Bengal. The
third section is devoted to a brief resumé of the state of our knowledge
of tornadoes and their occurrence and of the conditions which are found
to precede them as ascertained by the scientific work done in America
by the Meteorological Department of the United States. This section
also gives very briefly the theories which are held to account for the
formation of the phenomena called nor’-westers and dust-storms, while
the fourth or concluding part of the meteorological section of the paper
gives avery brief outline of the meteorology of the period, April 6th to
the 8th, and the conclusion is come to that the conditions which pre-
ceded the formation of the storm are similar to those which precede
similar tornadoes in the United States.
Incidentally also a description is given of three other tornadoes
which have recently occurred in Bengal, one in the Magura Sub-division
of the Jessore District on the 27th March 1888, a second in the Pubna
District on the same date, and the third of a tornado which occurred
at Bhadreswur, close to Serampore, on the 27th of April 1888.
The second part of the paper is by Dr. Crombie who details the
phenomena of the actual storm, giving also certain explanations of the
path selected by the storm, and of the damage done. Dr. Crombie
first discusses the action which a storm with winds gyrating in direction
opposite to the hands of a watch would have on obstacles in its path
and proves that the storm in question was a tornado with winds rota-
ting from right to left,(7. e., against the hands of a watch) by taking up
its action in one part of its course on the Buckland Bund close to the
Nawab’s palace, and shews also how by the position of the objects
thrown down, the precise track of the centre of the storm can be
proved. It appears the tornado began its destructive course at the ex-»
treme west end of the municipal limits of Dacca. The first clear signs
of the rotatory nature of the tempest occur in an orchard to the north-
east of Fakirinka Masjid, where there is a clump of plantain trees
thrown down, and twisted in all directions, and even in its first mani-
Ee ee a a ee ae
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1888. ] Dr. Crombie & A. Pedler—On the Dacca Tornado. 143
festations, it is clear that the storm was of great violence. The vortex
commenced to travel in a south easterly-direction between the old river
bed and the road running parallel to it, destroying every kutcha hut
in this portion of Dacca. In its passage eastward it gradually edged
more and more towards the old river bed, and when it was opposite the
Elephant Ghat, the vortex was actually in the bed of the river, and it
appeared as if the storm would have moved in the direction of least
resistance, and have passed out into the open maidan lying to the south
of Nawabgunge. Suddenly, however, the vortex moved to the north, and
was met with winds of hurricane force apparently quite separate from
the true tornado, blowing from the north, the track of which was not
more than 60 paces across, and was very local. Having advanced a
short distance in a N. H. direction it again turned towards the south-east.
Up to this time the tornado does not seem to have had power to destroy
pucca masonry buildings, though it had destroyed very numerous huts,
trees, &c. It, however, here passed into the maidan to the south of Lal-
bagh, and on being freed from such obstacles as buildings &c., it seems
rapidly to have accumulated additional force, and from this point it was
able to destroy even the strongest houses. From Lalbagh the vortex
passed into the river gradually crossing to the opposite bank, where it
almost ground to powder a newly built masonry house. It was then
approaching a village called Subudiya, and at this time the part of
Dacca on the north bank of the Buriganga seemed safe and Subudiya
doomed, but when crossing an open maidan it appears to have encoun-
tered a strong current of air blowing up from the south, when it ab-
ruptly altered its direction, wheeled nearly at a right angle to the north
and travelled in a north-easterly direction back to Dacca, when the
largest amount of damage was done, masonry houses being demolished
and everything in the track being destroyed until the storm reached
the Sankari Bazar, where it more or less suddenly rose from the ground
and passed high into the air. In no part of its course did the breadth of
the tornado exceed 200 paces and at the part where it did most damage
it was only 180 paces wide. It travelled altogether over 34 miles and
its rate of progress was according to different estimates from 20 to 12
miles an hour. The lateral force of the wind as above stated was enor-
mous and the uprush must have been equally strong, as after the walls
of houses had been blown out, large beams were kept from falling for
distinct periods by this violent uprush. The shape of the tornado cloud
appears to have been something like a top cut off a little above the
sharp point, it was accompanied by a distant rumbling sound, con-
siderable electrical disturbance seems to have accompanied it and the
cloud appears to have been more or less illuminated.
144. Library. [May
The storm caused 118 deaths, while 1200 persons were somewhat
severely wounded and nearly 7 lakhs worth of property was destroyed.
The paper will be published in full in Journal Part IT for 1888.
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PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL,
oR puUNE, 1888,
AK YF ODI
The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal
was held on Wednesday, the 6th June 1888, at 9.15 P. m,
Lisut.-Cou. J. Warersouss, President, in the Chair.
The following members were present :
Nawab Abdul Latif Bahadur, C. I. E., Prince Jahan Qadr Muhammad
Wahid Ali, Bahadur, H. Beveridge, Hsq., EH. C. Cotes, Hsq., H. Gay, Esq.,
EH. J. Jones, Esq., Babu Asutosh Mukhopadhyay, T. Munro, Esq., L. de
Nicéville, Esq., R. D. Oldham, Hsq., H. M. Percival, Hsq., W. L. Sclater,
Ksq., D. Waldie, Hsq., J. Wood-Mason, Esq.
The Minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed.
Twenty-four presentations were announced, as detailed in the ap-
pended Library List.
The following gentlemen, duly proposed and seconded at the last
meeting of the Society, were ballotied for and elected Ordinary Mem-
-bers :
A. P. Pennell, Esq., C. S.
Kumar Devendra Narayan Roy.
Maulvi Kabir-ud-din Ahmad, Khan Bahadur (re-elected).
The following gentlemen are candidates for election at the next
meeting :
Lieut. Eaton W. Petley, R. N., Offg. Port Officer, Calcutta, proposed
by Lieut.-Col. J. Waterhouse, seconded by A. Pedler, Esq.
Babu Kiran Chandra Roy, Zemindar of Narail, Zillah Jessore, pro-
posed by Nawab Abdul Latif Bahadur, seconded by Babu P. C. Ghosha.
152 C. J. Rodgers—Letter on Coins. [Junn,
The following gentleman has intimated his wish to withdraw from
the Society :
C. A. Hackett, Esq.
The Presipent announced that the Council had, on the application
of the Finance Committee, sanctioned the sale of Government Promis-
sory notes of the nominal value of Rs. 3,000 out of the Oriental Publi-
cation Fund, to meet excess expenditure for the present year: as also
the re-grant of a sum of Rs. 1,000 for binding the principal periodicals,
which had been sanctioned some time back, but had lapsed.
The PuiLonocicaL Secretary read the following extract from a
letter from Mr, C. J. Rodgers, of Amritsar, regarding coins collected
by him for Government in his tour during the past winter ;—
‘“‘ Perhaps you may be interested to hear that I have, during my tour
of the past winter, again made a collection of coins for Government. This
collection includes a fine square mohur of Shah Jahan’s and a new type in
gold of Muhammad Tughlaq. In Sonepat I came across the leavings
of the great find of which General Cunningham bagged so many. (See
his analysis of the find in Num. Chron., Vol. XII, N. S., p. 159).
I obtained in Sonepat one hemidrachma of Agathokleia (her bust and
name on obverse) with Straton’s name on reverse. One hemidrachma of
Heliokles, helmeted head of king, to left, with spear behind shoulders ;
two hemidrachma of ditto, bare head with fillet to right, 3 of Apollo-
dotus square, 3 of Menander of different types ; one of Hermeeus, hel-
meted king to right; one of ditto and Kalliope: one of Antialkides. I
saw a poor one of Antimachus and a good one of Philoxenes. People
say they are constantly turning up in the rains in the ruins of Sonepat.
‘“‘ Besides these I obtained a new rupee of Muhammad Tughlaq, and
a new one of Ghiyasu-d-din Tughlaq I. and Nasiru-d-din Bughra of
Bengal.
“In Dehli I obtained remarkably good specimens of rupees of the
following Sultans of Bengal, Jalalu-d-din, Muhammad Shah, Daitd,
Bahadur Shah, and a fine one of Mubarizu-d-din Muhammad Shah Siri.
I also obtained there some fine rupees of Jahangir and Akbar. There
had been a find of the Bengali rupees. I saw a bag full also of the
rupees of the Pathan Sultans ’Alau-d-din Masa’id Shah and Nasiru-d-
din Mahmtid Shah. These, however, nearly all lacked dates.
‘“‘In Panipat I came across an old Sanskrit coin with letters very
old on it (XTHZTF), over an image, with tree to left and a flower-pot to
right,
‘“‘In Ludianah I secured a hemidrachma of Zoilus, In Firozpur I
obtained a copper coin of some Satrap, probably Rajnabala.
1888. ] KH. C. Cotes—Hehibits Rice and Wheat Weevils. 153
“ But everywhere, even in Dehli, what a falling off is there in the
matter of old coins P It is true there are such things in the bazaars, but
nothing really fine is now obtainable; everything has long since been
nipped up. And now-a-days with the bazaars inundated with globe-
trotters who buy anything and everything at fabulous prices, it-is a
wonder I obtained anything. I still think, however, that if a great effort
were made, a really good collection of coins might even yet be made for
the Imperial Museum in Calcutta. My success last year and this seems
to show that in places off the rail, there are still coins obtainable.
“In Amritsar and Lahore nothing seems to have turned up during
the past year. I hope, however, to have more of a find of silver coins
of Mahmitd of Ghazni, made at Pindi or its neighbourhood during the past
year. The coins may have come from Kabul. I hear there are many
new types.
“ Besides coins I obtained impressions of inscriptions of about twenty
Sultans of Dehli. Several are of Balban, one of ’Aldu-d-din Masa’iid
Shah, many of Babar and Humayin and of the time of Sikandar and
Ibrahim Lodi. I made also a collection of sculptures and of carved bricks
for the Lahore Museum. I came across many Jain images of great
beauty and execution and the ruins of many Jain or Hinditemples. My
five draftsmen have made some beautiful drawings of images and pillars,
&.”
Mr. E. C. Cotss exhibited specimens of the Wheat and Rice Weevils
and made the following remarks upon them :—
I have brought some specimens of weevilled wheat and rice here
to-night which I thought might be of interest to the Society.
According to Messrs. Ralli Brothers of Calcutta this weevil destroys
an average of 23 per cent. of Indian wheat, which represents an annual loss
of £150,000 in exported wheat alone, and that this is not an excessive
estimate is shown by the fact that the Delhi wheat merchants, from
whom careful inquiries have been made, estimate the damage in some
cases at as much as eight or ten seers per maund. And in two of the
samples I have brought here to-night, which were taken at random from
the wheat godowns in Calcutta last January, you will see the refrac-
tion due to weevil is estimated by the trade at 2 and 5 per cent. re-
spectively.
I need hardly say that this is a very serious matter, especially now
that India has entered into competition with America and Russia for
supplying the world with wheat.
In America and Europe this weevil is known and is called the
“ Rice weevil” (to distinguish it from the allied Huropean wheat weeyj
Calandra granaria) ; itis, however, very sensitive to cold, and consequently
154 BE. C. Cotes—Laxhibits Rice and Wheat Weevils. (June,
in temperate climates is only able to develop under exceptional cir-
cumstances, and therefore it does relatively but little damage, while out
here in India it is to be found in every grain-dealer’s godown and wher-
ever wheat or rice is exposed to the air, whether in sacks or bulk.
The life history of the weevil is briefly this. The female weevil
bores a minute hole in the grain of wheat or rice, as it lies in the store
and deposits a single egg in it, covering up the hole with saliva and dust,
so as to make it almost invisible, thence it goes on to other grains and
deposits a single egg in each, laying in all some 150 eggs. Out of each
egg soon creeps a tiny white grub which bores its way into the grain,
but does not damage the integument, so that the grain continues to look
quite sound. When it is full fed the grub sheds its skin and becomes &
pupa. The pupa lies dormant inside the grain until it is ready to trans-
form into the perfect insect, when it wriggles out of its pupal skin and
becomes a weevil. This weevil cuts its way out through the skin of the
grain and is then ready to commence a new generation.
We thus see that from the time the egg is laid to the emergence of
the perfect insect, the grain is apparently quite sound, and hence it is
that the connection between the original weevils and the generation of
their offspring which cut their way out of the grain, is usually quite
lost sight of, the native dealer believing that the weevils appear from
outside and eat up the wheat. And this period of incubation (as it
were) accounts, I think, for the many stories one hears of weevils
appearing in clean wheat stored in aclean godown, the explanation
being that the wheat may have been already affected by eggs, larve or
even pup of the beetle before it was put into the clean godown,
Most of the weevils cut their way out of the grain during the rains,
and consequently it is then that the weevils are generally noticed for
the first time, although the mischief had been going on for weeks or
even months while the grub was eating and growing inside the grain,
without, however, any sign of its presence being visible externally.
The cultivator succeeds in protecting his wheat by storing it in pits
or mud erections, which he lines with broken straw and chaff from the
threshing-floor, or even with sand, covering up the whole carefully with
earth. Preserved in this way his grain lies unharmed by weevil in
some cases for many years. It is, however, after it leaves his hands, when
the wheat find its way into the dealers’ godowns, that it is invariably
attacked.
Much the same is the case with rice, which appears to be quite free
from weevil as long as it remains in the village granaries where it is
stored in the husk, but which becomes affected as soon as ever it is
taken out of the husk and stored in the dealers’ godowns.
eta ieee el et a A a
1888.] Col. A. Bloomfield —Memorandum on Celts. 155
No attempt seems to be at present made in any of the godowns
that I have visited in Calcutta or up-country to clean out and disinfect
them before introducing new wheat; the native grain-dealers indeed ap-
pearing to have no idea whatever of the natural history of the weevil,
and refusing to believe that the weevils use the grains as a place for de-
positing their eggs, and insisting that weevils come from outside in the
rains and eat up the wheat.
This being the case there seems to be every probability that by care-
fully disinfecting the granaries and removing all old weevily wheat before
introducing clean wheat, it will be possible to a great extent to do away
with the weevil and put a stop to its ravages.
There seems to be a somewhat widespread idea that although
wheat is apparently free from weevil when it leaves the fields or the
village granaries, yet that it will invariably develop weevil whenever it
is stored so as to be exposed to the air, independently of any further
contamination by weevils.
This idea is no doubt chiefly due, as has been pointed ont, to the fact
that after the eggs are laid a period of at least about six weeks elapses
before anything is seen of the resulting weevils. And consequently that
the grain may have lain in some infested place and thus got infected
before ever it reached the clean godown.
But it is also possible that in some cases the eggs of the weevil may
be laid in the grain when it stands in the ear, though everything I have
learnt about it seems to point the other way. At the same time this
prevailing idea militates against the adoption of the preventive mea-
sures which appear promising. It would seem very desirable therefore to
have careful experiments made in order to settle the question beyond
dispute. And I hope that this will be done ; several maunds of clean
wheat from different floors and stores in the N. W. P. and from the
Punjab are being sent down to Calcutta, and these I am distributing to
different places where there is no fear of contamination from old grain,
with a view to ascertaining to what extent the storage under the con-
ditions which would obtain in a properly kept godown will protect the
wheat from attack.
On the whole it would seem that in reasonable precautions to pre-
vent the spread of infection will be found a practicable means of dealing
with a pest that at present is doing very considerable injury to the wheat
and rice trades in India.
The GeneraL Szorerary read the following Memorandum by Colonel
A. Bloomfield, of Narsingptr, on Copper Celts in the Balaghat district, C. P.
“Ever since the great discovery of Copper Celts in the Balaghat
156 A. Mukhopadhay—On Parabolas. [ June,
district about 1870 I have taken great interest in such matters. But
I never could find out that any natives knew anything about them or
ever saw any of them. During this last touring season I have discover-
ed that they are to some extent known. They are noted as being made
of the very best copper obtainable.
‘“‘The people here call them Kurabhau (or it may be Kuruphau ?)
and they believe they fall from the sky during the thunderstorms.
They are occasionally ploughed up and brought to the Sonars and brass
workers, who purchase them at 12 annas to 1 rupee per ser, and melt
them up. An old Kasera of Chiebli, before me to-day, told me he has
seen 15 or 20 of them, but never knew they were of value.”
The following papers were read :—
1. A list of the Ferns of Simla, in the N. W. Himalayas, between
levels of 4,500 and 10,500 feet.—By H. F. Buanrorp, Hsq., F. R. S.
2. Notes on some Indian Chiroptera.—By W. F. Buanrorp, Esq.,
F.R.S.
3. On new or little known butterflies from the Indian Region.—By
L. pr Nic’nyitue, Esq., F. H. S.
These papers will be published in full in the Journal, Part IT.
4. Onthe Differential Equation of all Parabolas—By Basu AsutosH
Mouxuopdpuydy, M. A., F. R. A. S., F. B.S. E.
(Abstract.)
The object of the author in the present paper has mainly been the
discussion of the differential equation of all parabolas, which, it is be-
lieved, is geometrically interpreted here for the first time. The paper
is divided into four sections, of which the first is introductory, giving
the easiest method of deriving the differential equation of all parabolas
from the integral equation of the conic, and explaining the exact mean-
ing of the process of geometrically interpreting differential equations.
The second section is devoted to a full exposition of Transon’s Theory
of Aberrancy ; in addition to the ordinary terms, angle of aberrancy,
axis of aberrancy and centre of aberrancy, three new terms are in-
troduced, namely, the radius of aberrancy, being the distance between
the given point on the curve and the corresponding centre of aberrancy,
the index of aberrancy, being the reciprocal of the radius of aberrancy,
aud the aberrancy curve, being the locus of the centre of aberrancy. A
lemma is then proved, establishing a relation between the angle includ-
ed by the normal and central radius vector at any point of a conic,
the radius of curvature of the conic at that point, and the radius of curva-
ture at the corresponding point of the evolute. The well-known value of
the angle of aberrancy is then easily obtained, and expressions are also
4
1888. | A. Mukhopadhay—On Monge’s Equation. 157
derived for the radius of aberrancy and the index of aberrancy. In the next
place, expressions for the co-ordinates of the centre of aberrancy, when the
curve is referred to rectangular axes through any origin, are written down
with ease, and, it is pointed out that several interesting results, includ-
ing the equation of the axis of aberrancy, are immediate consequences
of the formule obtained. The third section contains the geometric
interpretation; from the formula for the index of aberrancy previously
obtained, it is shewn that the true geometric interpretation of the
differential equation of all parabolas, is that the index of aberrancy vanishes
at every point of every parabola. The fourth and last section contains
a discussion of some miscellaneous theorems ; it is pointed out that the
differential expression, the vanishing of which is found to be the differ-
ential equation of all parabolas, may appropriately be taken to distinguish
the species of the conic of closest contact at any point of a given curve ;
lastly, the differential equation of all parabolas in terms of the radius of
curvature and the angle which the normal makes with the principal
axis, is obtained from a result incidentally given in the course of the
foregoing discussion ; and, by integrating this differential equation, the
known form of the intrinsic equation of a parabola is verified.
The paper will be published in full in the Journal, Part II, for
1888.
5. The Geometrical Interpretation of Monge’s Differential Hquation
to all Conics.—By Basu AsutosH MuxuopApuydy, M. A., F. R. A. S,
hm B.S. i.
(Abstract.)
The object of the author in the present paper has been to establish
the true geometric interpretation of the Mongian equation, recently
discovered by him. The paper is divided into two sections, of which the
first contains an historical introduction, in which a rapid survey is taken
of the past history and present condition of the problem; the review
begins with an account of Monge’s original paper; Boole’s statement
that in the case of the Mongian equation our powers of geometrical
interpretation fail, is next noticed ; and, lastly, the reasons for rejecting
the interpretations of Cunningham and Sylvester, are summarised.
The second section gives the geometrical interpretation of the
Mongian equation; the most general expression for the radius of curva-
ture at any point of the aberrancy curve (which is the curve-locus of the
centre of aberrancy) of any given curve, is first calculated by means of
the formule given in the author’s paper on the Differential Equation
of all Parabolas, of which an abstract will be found above. As an
immediate consequence of this formula, it is deduced that the true
158 Library. [ June,
geometric interpretation of, Monge’s differential equation to all conics is
that the radius of curvature of the aberrancy curve vanishes at every point
of every conc. This geometrical interpretation satisfies all the tests
which every true geometrical interpretation ought to satisfy, and, it is
believed, we have at length got here the true interpretation which has
been sought for by mathematicians during the last thirty years, ever
since Boole wrote his now famous lines.
The paper will be published in full in the Journal, Part II, for
1888.
6. Notes on Indian Rhynchota, Heteroptera, No. 5.—By H. F. T.
ATKINSON, Hsq., B. A.
7. New Indian Rhynchota.— By EH. F. T. Arxinson, Hsq., B. A.
These papers will be published in full in the Journal, Part II.
PiBRARY.
The following additions have been made to the Library since the
meeting held in May 1888.
J RANSACTIONS, PROCEEDINGS AND JOURNALS,
presented by the respective Societies and Editors.
Amsterdam. Revue Coloniale Internationale,—Tome I, Nos. 1—6,
Juillet-—Décembre, 1885. Tome II, No. 1, Janvier, 1886.
Baltimore. Johns Hopkins University,—Circulars, Vol. VII, No. 65,
April, 1888.
Batavia. Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen.
—Tijidschrift voor Indische Taal-, Land-en Volkenkunde, Deel XXXII,
Aflevering 3.
Brussels. Musée Royal D’Histoire Naturelle de Belgique,—Bulletin,
Tome V, No. l.
Calcutta. Indian Engineering,—Vol. III, Nos. 18—22.
-. The Indian Hngineer,—Vol. V, Nos. 3—8, and Title-page and
Index to Vol. IV.
Cherbourg. La Société Nationale des Sciences Naturelles et Mathémati-
ques,—Memoires, Tome XXV. (8° série-Tome V.)
Danzig. Der Naturforschenden Gessellschaft in Danzig,—Schriften,
Neue Folge, Bande VII, Heft I.
Edinburgh. The Scottish Geographical Society,—Magazine, Vol. IV,
No. 4, April, £888.
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Sigel Ona
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Frankfurt a’0. Des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins des Reg.-Bez.
Frankfurt,—Monatliche Mittheilungen aus dem Gesammtgebiete der
Naturwissenschaften, 5 Jahrgang, Nrn 9—10.
. Societatum Litterae, No. 12, Title-page and Index, 1887
and Nos. 1—2, 1888.
Halle. Der Kaiserlichen Leopoldino-Carolinischen Deutschen Aka-
demie der Naturforscher,—Leopoldina, Jahrgang, 1886 et 1887.
Nova Acta, Tomes XLIX—LI.
Katalog der Biblothek, Lief. I, 1887.
~ London. Institution of Civil Engineers,—Minutes of Proceedings, Vol.
XCI.
ees ee
°
— eee
e
Nature,—Nos. 964—967.
. Royal Astronomical Society,—Monthly Notices, Vol.
XLVITII, No. 4, February, 1888.
._ ——. Memoirs, Vol. XLIX, Part I.
. Royal Geographical Society,—Proceedings, Vol. X, No. 4,
April, 1888.
Royal Society,—Proceedings, Vol. XLITI, No. 263.
Society of Telegraph Hngineers and Electricians,—Journal,
Vol. XVII, Nos. 70 and 71, and Title-page and Index to Vol. XVI,
1887.
The Academy,—Nos. 833—836.
The Atheneum,—Nos. 3156—3159,
Paris. Musée Guimet,—Revue de L’Histoire des Religions, Tome XVI,
No. 3, Novembre-Décembre, 1887.
-. La Société D’Anthropologie de Paris,—Bulletins, Tome X, (IITe
série), Fascicule 4, Octobre 4 Décembre, 1887.
Memoirs, Tome III (2nd série) Fascicule III et IV.
-. La Société de Géographie,—Compte Rendu des Séances Nos. 7
et 8, 1888.
La Société Zoologique de France,—Bulletin, Tome XIIT, No. 2.
Pisa. La Societa Toscana di Scienze Naturali,—Atti (Processi Verbali),
Vol. 6, Gennaio, 1888.
Rome. La Societa Degli Spettroscopisti Italiani,—Memorie, Vol, XVII
Dispensa 22, Febbraio, 1888.
Schaffhausen. La Société Entomologique Suisse,—Bulletin, Tome VII,
Heft Nr. 10.
Shanghai. China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society,—Journal, Vol.
XXII (new series), Nos. 5 and 6.
Simla. United Service Institution of India,—Journal, Vol. XVI, No. 70.
St. Petersburg. L’ Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Petersbourg,
—Mémoires, Tome XXXV, (VII? serie) No. 10.
160 Library. [ June,
St. Petersburg. Le Jardin Impérial de Botanique,—Acta Horti Petro-
politani, Vol, VI, No. 2, 1880.
—--. la Société Impériale Russe de Géographie,—Journal,
Tome XXIII, No. 6.
Stockholm. Entomologiska Féreningen I Stockholm,—Entomologisk
Tidskrift, Arg 7, Haft 1—4, 1886 Arg 8. Haft 1—4, 1887.
Tokyd. Imperial University of Japan,—Journal of the College of
Science, Vol. IT, Part I, 1888.
Valparaiso. Des Deutschen Wissenschaftlichen Vereins zu Santiago,
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gen, Band XVII, Heft 3 und 4.
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17 und 18, 1887 und Nos. 1—5, 1881.
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Buianrorp, W. J. Critical notes on the nomenclature of Indian Mam-
mals. 8vo. London, 1887.
Marurws, Dr. W. The Prayer of a Navajo Shaman. 8vo. Washington,
1888.
Murpoca, J. Religious Reform, Part III (Vedic Hinduism). 8vo. Mad-
ras, 1888.
Roy, Proraep Cuanpra. The Mahabharata, translated into English
prose, Part XX XIX. 8vo. Calcutta, 1888.
MiscELLANEOUS PRESENTATIONS.
Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum, Volume XII. By R.
Bowdler Sharpe. 8vo. London, 1888.
Catalogue of Fossil Mammalia, in the British Museum, Part V. By
Richard Lydekker, B. A., D.G.S. 8vo. London, 1887.
Guide to the Shell and Starfish galleries in the Department of Zoology
of the British Museum (Natural History). 8vo. London, 1887.
British Museum.
Informe de la Direccion General de Etadistica, 1887. 8vo. Guatemala,
1888.
Direccion GfNERAL DE EstTabDIsTIcA, GUATEMALA.
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I, Paleeomorphe and Urostigma. Part II, Syncecia, Sycidium, Covella,
Kusyce and Neomorphe. By George King, M. B., LL. D., F. L.S.,
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Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, Fol. Cal-
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The Indian Forester. Vol. XIV, Nos. 4 and 5, April and May 1887.
8vo. Roorkee, 1888.
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Excursions et Reconnaissances. Vol. XIII, No. 30, Janvier-Fevrier, 1887.
8vo. Saigon, 1887.
GOVERNMENT OF FrREeNcH CocntIn CHINA,
Army Hstimates of Effective and Non-Hffective Services for 1888-89
(with index). Fep. London, 1888.
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(1887). Fep. London, 1887.
Further Correspondence (In continuation of No. 2, 1887) respecting the
affairs of Central Asia. No.1, (1888). Fep. London, 1888.
Index to the Reports from the Select Committee on Army and Navy
Estimates. Fcp. London, 1887.
Statement of the Trade of British India with British Possessions and
Foreign Countries for the five years 1882-83 to 1886-87. Fep. London,
1888.
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F.R.G.S., F. 8. Sc. 12mo. London, 1887.
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M. R. A. A., Archeological Surveyor Fep. Madras, 1888.
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1888.
PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL,
FoR puLy, 1888,
——)
The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal
was held on Wednesday the 4th July 1888, at 9-15 P. m.
Linvut.-Cou. J. Waternouse, President, in the Chair.
The following members were present: Nawab Abdul Latif Bahadur,
C. I. H., H. Beveridge, Esq., H. C. Cotes, Hsq., EH. Gay, Esq., Asutosh
Gupta, Esq., A. Hogg, Esq., E. J. Jones, Esq., Dr. W. King, L. de
Nicéville, Esq., R. D. Oldham, Esq., A. Pedler, Hsq., H. M. Percival,
Hsq., T. A. Pope, Esq., 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 gentleman, duly proposed and seconded at the meet-
ing held in May, was ballotted for and elected an Ordinary Member at
the June meeting.
Babu Peary Mohun Roy.
The following gentlemen, duly proposed and seconded at the last
meeting of the Society, were ballotted for and elected Ordinary
Members.
Lieut. Haton W. Petley, R. N., F. R. G. S.
Babu Kiranchandra Roy.
The following gentlemen are candidates for election at the next
meeting :
Babu Rajanikanta Gupta, proposed by Pandit H. P. Shastri, second-
ed by H. M. Percival, Esq.
Nawab Syud Mahomed Zainool Abideen Khan Bahadur Feroze
Jung, (Nizamut Family,) Moorshedabad, proposed by Nawab Abdul
Latif Bahadur, C. I. E., seconded by H. Beveridge, Esq.
164 W.H. P. Driver—On “ Hra Sendra” or “ women’s hunt.” (Jury,
The Secretary reported the death of the following member :
J. Hart, Esq.
The Prestpent said that Members of the Society would be greatly
gratified to learn that the late President, Mr. EH. T. Atkinson, had been
unanimously elected an Honorary Member of the Royal Imperial
Hungarian Academy, both as President of the Society and in recogni-
tion of his valuable literary and scientific labours connected with the
Gazetteer of the N. W. Provinces and researches into Indian Hnto-
mology. The Hungarian Academy has been in correspondence with
the Asiatic Society for many years, and the late Mr. Arthur Grote, who
was one of our most devoted Presidents, was also an Honorary Member
of the Academy.
The Prestpent further announced that intimation had been received
from the Geographical Society of Paris of their intention to hold a
Geographical Congress in the month of August during the Exhibition
in that city next year.
Mr. Dupern exhibited a new method of illuminating for the micros-
cope (postponed from last meeting).
The GeneraL Secretary read the following description by Mr.
W.H. P. Driver, of Ranchi, of a peculiar custom amongst the aboriginal
tribes of those parts, called ‘‘ Hra Sendra,” or ‘ women’s hunt’ :—
‘We have just witnessed a peculiar custom of the people of these
parts. It is called the ‘ Hra Sendra” or ‘women’s hunt,’ and on this
occasion the expulsion of the cholera demon was its purpose.
“Tt is an ancient custom, amongst the aboriginal tribes, that when
any great calamity, which they cannot cope with, overtakes the land,
the women dress themselves up in men’s clothes, arm themselves with
weapons, and go out to hunt,
““They do not, however, take to the jungles in quest of game, but
visit the nearest villages lying to the east of them, when they hunt the
pigs and fowls, and everything they kill is their legitimate spoil.
They also levy ‘“ blackmail” from the heads of the villages for the pur-
chase of liquor. The owners of the pigs and fowls cannot prevent
their killmg and taking away their property, but the headmen gene-
rally compromise matters by giving the visitors a pig as well as some
pice ‘ pour botre.’
“Towards evening the Shikar party retire to some neighbouring
stream, where they cook and eat the meat, and drink the liquor which,
thanks to a benevolent Government, is always handy. They eat neither
rice nor anything else at this meal. After supping they bathe in the
stream and then return home.
1888. ] A. Mukhopadhyay—On Monge’s Differential Hquation. 165
“On such occasions no men are allowed to accompany the women,
who, for the time being, conduct themselves in a very masterful and
masculine fashion.
“They are decked out with pagris, coats and all the finery they can
borrow from their husbands and sweethearts, and they flourish their
spears, axes and sticks, beat their ‘nageras,’ (iron drums) shout, sing
hunting songs, and dance the Sendra and Kharia just as the men do.
The ceremony commences in the west and each village that has been
visited goes out ona similar excursion to its neighbours, but always to
the east. By this means itis supposed that the evil spirit is safely
conducted out of the district, without offending its dignity.
“There is one village near Ranchi which is a notable exception.
Its title is ‘ Mahadaiva,’ 7. e., devoted to Mahadev, and there the ama-
zonian huntresses are not allowed to enter, as it is supposed to be under
the special protection of its patron saint. Were cholera to appear in
the ‘ Mahadaiva’ village, it would be because Mahadev had been
offended, and he would have to be propitiated before it could disappear.”
Basu AsutosH Muxsopdpuyay read the following extract from a
letter on Monge’s Differential Hquation to all Conics, written (20th June
1888) to him by G. H. Stuart, Esq., M. A., Principal and Professor of
Mathematics in the Madras Presidency College.
“‘T have some recollection of seeing a paper on the general differ-
ential equation to a conic in one of the mathematical journals, and I
have postponed my reply until I could give you the reference, but I
cannot find it. The substance of the paper was that for the general
conic, if p be the radius of curvature, and y its inclination to a fixed
line, the general differential equation can, by the relation
dy\?
{14 a
d?y P
dat
be transformed into
4) — ( — Apa —— :
Paes p Peta mn ty ie = 0;
and if py, po, pg, +. be the radii of curvature at the corresponding
points of the Ist, 2nd, 3rd, ...... Ue so that
Be dp dp, dps
i dy’ Po dy’ » Pg edn,
this equation becomes
CO
ve 5)
40
P*Ps — OP1 Pa Ps F -> 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.
The paper will be published in the Journal, Part I.
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Berlin. Der Koniglichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin,—
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Indian Antiquary, Vol. XVII, Part 207, April, 1888,
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Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland,—Journal,
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Royal Geographical Society,—Proceedings, Vol. X, No. 5
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6—7, 1888.
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LLL EBYEOOLYlEPMYLE OO T?-— OO OO
PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL,
for prucust, 1888.
EK VF RSD
The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal
was held on Wednesday the Ist August, 1888, at 9-15 p. m.
Lizvur.-Cou. J. Wateruouss, President, in the Chair.
The following members were present :— :
Nawab Abdul Latif Bahadur, C.I. H., E. F. T. Atkinson, Esq.,
H. Beveridge, Hsq., H. C. Cotes, Hsq., S. R. Elson, Esq., E. Gay,
Esq., Dr. Hoernle, A. Hogg, Esq., Dr. W. King, Babu Asutosh Mu-
khopadhyay, L. de Nicéville, Hsq., H. M. Percival, Esq., W. L. Sclater,
Hsq., J. Wood-Mason, Esq.
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed.
Twenty-nine presentations were announced, details of which are
given in the Library List appended.
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
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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.
‘<Nya Paw.”
A multivoltine mulberry feeding silk worm, largely reared in Arracan
and Burma.
BOMBYX TEXTOR.
“* Boropolo”’ or ** Pat Major.”
An annual mulberry feeding silk worm, recorded from Bengal and
China ; its cultivation seems to be dying out in India.
BoMBYX SINENSIS.
“Sine on Chota.Par*
A small multivoltine mulberry feeding silk worm, recorded from
Bengal. Its silk is inferior to that of the ‘‘ Desi” and “ Madrassee,”’
and its cultivation is said to be dying out.
BoMBYX MBRIDIONALIS.
b
This is probably only a variety of the “‘ Chota Pat ;’”’ it is reared in
Mysore and the Madras presideucy.
THEOPHILA HUTTONI.
A wild silk worm found feeding on indigenous mulberry trees in the
North Western Himalayas. It has not been found possible to rear these
176 K. C. Cotes—On Indian Sericulture. [ Aue.
worms successfully in captivity and the silk is not made use of com-
mercially at present. The worm is bivoltine in Mussooree.
ANTHERHZA MYLITTA.
The ‘* Tusser”’? worm.
A semi-domesticated bivoltthe silk worm, largely reared in many
parts of India in the open air upon various trees, amongst which are:
The Daiyeti (Lagerstremia indica); The Bher (Zizyphus jujuba) ;
The Karinda (Carissa carandus) ; The Saj tree (Terminalia tomentosa).
The cocoon can be reeled and yields a large amount of valuable silk
which is remarkable for its strength and durability. The silk is largely
exported in the form of locally woven cloth, reeled silk and waste,
and forms a considerable item of trade.
ANTHERHZA ASSAMA.
** Mooga.”
A semi-domesticated multivoltine silk worm, largely reared in Assam
in the open air upon the Sum tree (Machilus odoratissima); The Sudlu
(Tetranthera monopetala), and other forest trees. The cocoon can be
reeled and yields a valuable silk, in which there is a considerable trade.
ATTACUS RICINI.
“ Eri” silk worm.
A woultivoltine silk worm which is domesticated in Assam, Cachar,
and Northern Bengal, it feeds upon the Castor oil plant and produces a
valuable silk. The cocoon cannot be reeled, but the silk is carded, and
there is a considerable trade in it in the forms of woven silk, ‘“‘ Waste ”’
and Yarn.
ATTACUS ATLAS.
A wild silk worm, found in many parts of India, besides Burma,
Ceylon, Java, China, and other parts of Southern Asia. It feeds upon
a large number of different plants, but is not cultivated for its silk,
which, however, is said to have a considerable market value when
obtained in sufficient quantities.
CRICULA TRIFENESTRATA.
The Amlurt” or Mango silk worm.
A wild silk worm, recorded from many parts of India, and Burma,
and also from Java. The cocoons are found in masses upon mango,
Sum, and other trees, they cannot be reeled and are of but little value.
RHODIA NEWERA.
A wild silk worm found in Sikkim and Nepal upon a species of
weeping willow. This silk is not made use of in any way.
1888.|] Philological Secretary —List of Translations of Puranas. AME |
ACTIAS SELENE.
A wild silk worm found in many parts of India, besides Ceylon and
China. No use is made of its silk.
The PuitotocicaL SecorEeTARY read the following descriptive list,
drawn. up by the Pandit of the Society, of the translations of the
Puranas, made under the supervision of the late Dr. H. H. Wilson,
now in the Society’s Library :—
Markandeya Purdna.
Index and Translation.
Chapters 1 to 117, omitting chapters 3, 7—9, 13—15, 18—39, 42—
51, 53, 56—86, 90—94.,
This is a paraphrastic translation, except a few chapters extracts
from which have been translated. No notes have been added to it. The
contents of a few of the chapters of the translation do not agree with ~
those of the text. The translation is neither complete nor perfect.
The text of this Purana edited by Rev. K. M. Banerjee ends at chapter
137. Rev. K. M. Banerjee also published this translation with improve-
‘ments up to verse No. 21 of the 8th chapter, in the year 1851.
Linga Purana.
Index and Translation.
Pirva Khanda, chapters .» I—105.
Uttara Khanda a we O17.
The translation is not a consecutive one.
Kirma Purana.
Preliminary Observations, Index and Translation. Purva Khanda,
Chapters 1—53, omitting chapters 3—6, 10, 11, 13—18, 25—27, 38—
40, 44, 50. Uttara Khanda, chapter first only.
The Uttara Khanda is incomplete, the text being complete in 46
chapters. The translation contains an appendix.
Brahmanda Purana.
Index and Translation.
Pirva Khanda, chapters ... 1—100.
Uttara Khanda * wo £—33.
Translation neither complete nor consecutive.
‘iva Purdna.
Index and Translation.
Purva Khanda, chapters .. L—d6,
Uttara Khanda * .. 1l—86.
The translation is not a consecutive one.
178 Philological Secretary—List of Translations of Purdnas. [AuvG.
Brihannaradiya Purana.
Preliminary observations, Index and Translation. Chapters 1—38,
omitting chapters 2, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12—37.
Adi Purana. .
Index, Introductory Observations and Translation. Chapters 1—25,
omitting chapters 3—9, 11—22, 24. The MS. is slightly damaged by
worms.
Padma Purana—Svarga Khanda.
Index and Translation. Chapters 1—39, omitting chapters 8, 9,
16—22, 24, 27, 28, 30, 31, 33—36.
Padma Purdna—Srishti Khanda.
Index and Translation.
Chapters 1—45, omitting chapters 4, 6, 8, 11, 18, 20, 21, 23—28,
31 . 36, 38, 43, 44.
Padma Purdna—Bhimi Khanda.
Index and Translation. Chapters 1—131.
The translation is not a consecutive one.
Padma Purdaa—Patila Khanda.
Index and Translation.
Chapters 1—102, omitting chapters 5, 6, 8, 9, 11—33, 36—39, 42—
64, 81—90.
Vayu Purana.
Introductory remarks, Index and Translation.
Chapters 1—54.
Translation neither consecutive nor complete. The text published
by Dr. Mitra contains 61 Chapters in the Pirva Khanda and 14 in the
Uttara Khanda (incomplete).
Vishnu Purana.
Vols. I and II. We have also a duplicate copy of the first Vol. of
this translation. It was published by Dr. Wilson in 1839.
Naradiya Purana.
Index and Translation.
Ist Part, chapters 1—18, omitting chapters 2, 4—12, 15—17. 2nd
part, chapters 8—38.
Kélika Purana.
Index and Translation. Chapters 1—98, omitting chapters 7, 14,
15, 19, 21, 22, 25—27, 32—35, 42—51, 54—58, 65—71, 75—86, 92—96.
1888. ] Philological Secretary—Reports on Coins. 179
Brahma ICAP Purina—Brahma Khanda.
Index, Introductory Observations and Translation.
Chapters 1-—29. The translation is not a consecutive one.
Brahma Vaivarta Purdna— Prakriti Khanda.
Index and Translation.
Chapters 1—62, omitting chapters, 3—8, 10, 14—17, 19—31, 33,
34, 36—44, 47—53, 57—61.
Brahma Vaivarta Puréna—Ganesa Khanda.
: Index and Translation.
Chapters 1—46, omitting chapters 5, 6, 9, 10, 14—18, 20, 22—25,
30, d9—A42,
Brahma Vaivarta Purana—Krishna-janmakatha, 2 Vols.
Index and Translation.
Chapters 1—132. The translation is not a consecutive one.
All the MSS. in the list are paraphrastic translations. Ina few
places merely extracts from the texts have been translated. No notes
have been added to these translations.
The PxHinonogicaAL SecRETARY read reports on the following finds of
Treasure Trove Coins :
Report on 24 old silver treasure trove coins, forwarded by the Col-
lector of Sarun, with his No. 328G, dated the 24th May 1888.
1. The Collector’s letter does not specify the locality where the
coins were found.
2. They are Rupees of the following Emperors of Delhi :
No. of specimen
I. Muvuammap SuHAnu, A. H. 1181—1161 = A. D. 1719—
1748; type; Bddshah Ghazi; Mint. ’Azimabad ;
aaa - 1138, 7 and 1154, 23 cA 2
II. ’Anamefr ZAni, A. H. 1167—1173 = A. D. 1754—
1759; type: Bddshah Ghaz; Mint and date,
fitoesBle SOc 1
III. ’Autam SuHAg, A. H. 11731221 =~ Lg DD: 1159.
1806 ; symbol, on obverse: fish; Mint: Muham-
madabad: Benares; dates; 11967, 24-1203,
31—1205, 32—1206, 34—1207?, 35—1208, 36—
1209, 37—1210?, 38 —1212,39—1214?, 4] and 42—
12162, 43 and 44—12173, 44 and 45—1219, 47—
1220, 47 Aes ose eae ate 21
Total... 24,
180 Philological Secretary—Reports on Ooins. [ Aue.
Report on 72 coins forwarded by the Deputy Commissioner of
Rohtak, with his No. 463, dated 23rd April 1888.
1. The coins are stated to have been found in a field of the village
of Ghilour in the Gohana Tahsil. They are 72 in number.
2. They all belong to the reign of the emperor Shah ’Alam, who
reigned from A. H. 1173—1221= A.D. 1759--1806. They are all
dated in the regnal year only, viz., in the 40th year, which would be
A. H. 1213 or A. D. 1798; and all were minted in Farrukhabad, appar-
ently, to judge from the fashion of the coins, under English orders,
They are of two kinds, 39 have a broad raised margin, with a smooth
edge; and 43 have a hardly distinguishable margin, with a milled (or
serrated) edge.
Report on 137 old coins, forwarded by the Deputy Commissioner of
Sialkot, with his No. 1045, dated the 19th June, 1888.
1. These coins were found in two sets of 57 and 80 pieces respec-
tively. The first set of 57 pieces is stated to have been found in the
wall of a house in the Mauza Adowar of the Tahsil Daska, and are de-
scribed to be of an admixture of copper and silver. The second set of
80 coins is stated to have been found in a field, but the locality is not
further specified, though perhaps the same Mauza and Tahsil are in-
tended. The two sets are stated to have been found as long ago as the
1st November, 1886 and 26th June, 1885 respectively.
2. The first set of coins belongs to a class of which numerous
varieties have been found at various times. It is commonly known as
‘Indo-Scythian,’ and several varieties of it have been described, especi-
ally by the late Mr. E. Thomas, in the Indian Antiquary, Vol. XII, p. 6,
Of the particular variety to which the coins under report belong the
first specimen appears to have been found, along with a number of other
coins of different classes, in the relic casket of the celebrated tope of
Manikyala, when it was opened by General Ventura in 1830, (as de.
scribed in the IIIrd volume of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Ben.
gal). James Prinsep, who examined the find at that time, failed to
identify that specimen ; but it was identified by General Sir A. Cunning-
ham, in 1854, from two duplicates in his possession, as belonging to king
Yagovarman of Kanauj (see Jowrnal As. Soc. Beng., Vol. XXIII, p. 700),
who must have reigned early in the 8th century A. D. This identi-
fication, so far as the name is concerned, is confirmed by the coins
under report, among which there are two good specimens, giving every
letter of the name in perfect condition. The age of these coins
it was thought, could be determined from the fact, that among the
coins found together with the Manikyala specimen, there was a so-
called ‘Sassanian coin,’ one of ’Abdull4h bin Hazim, Governor of
1888. ] Philological Secretary——Reports on Coins. 181
Khorasan, struck at Merw in A. H. 66, or A. D. 685-6, (see Prinsep’s
Indian Antiquities, ed. E. Thomas, Vol. I, p. 94). The only king,
named Yasovarman, who is known to have lived about this time,
is he of Kanauj, the contemporary and rival of king Lalitaditya of
Kashmir, who is calculated to have reigned from A. D. 719—756
(see Gottingische Gelehrte Anzeigen, 1888, p. 70). These two kings,
according to the Kashmirian chronicle Rajatarangini, were at war
with one another ; and it was assumed that king Yasovarman might have
carried his arms victoriously so far west as the Panjab and Kashmir.
On that occasion, it was thought, the coins which bear Yasovarman’s
name might have been struck. For they, and all coins of that class,
belong to the extreme north-west of India. To my mind, there are
some objections to this ascription of the Yasovarman coins. In the
first place, according to the Rajatarangini, which tells us of the war
between the two kings (in the 4th Book), it was Lalitaditya of Kashmir
who invaded the kingdom of Kanauj, and not Yasovarman of Kanauj
conquering Kashmir. This, therefore, affords no ground for assuming
that Yasovarman issued coins in the extreme north-west of India. It
is true that the Prakrit poem called the Gaiidavaho, lately edited by
Sh, P. Pandit, also alludes to expeditions of king Yasovarman of
Kanauj into the North-west (to Thanesar in the Punjab, and against the
Parasikas). But vague statements in a poem which, in the form now
preserved, makes no pretence to being a historical narration, cannot
for a moment be pitted against the direct statements of a professedly
historical work, possessing an admittedly general trustworthiness ; (see
the editor’s Introduction, pp. XXVII, XXVIII, LXXII, LXXIIT). In
the second place, among the coins found with the Yasovarman coin in
the Manikyala tope, there was also a coin of Huvishka who reigned in
the 2nd century A. D.; and there seems no cogent reason why the age
of the Yasovarman coin should be determined by its juxtaposition
to the Sassanian coin rather than the Huvishka coin. In the third
place, the general appearance of the Indo-Scythian coins of this class
_ makes it probable that they are of a much older date, and are the last
crude and deteriorated representatives of a type (the so-called “‘ Ardokro”’
type), which commenced with the great Indo-Scythian kings Kanishka
and Huvishka of the two first centuries A. D. In the fourth place,
the form of the orthography and inflection of the name, which is that
peculiar to the ancient North Western Prakrit, points to a very much
earlier date. Under these circumstances I would suggest as a more
probable view, that the Yasovarman of the coin may be identical with a
Yasgovarman (or Yasodharman), who reigned early in the sixth century
(about 532 A. D.), and who has recorded his exploits in three pillar- —
182 Philological Secretary— Reports on Coins. [ Ava.
inscriptions (see Indian Antiquary, Vol. XV, pp. 222, 253, 257). From
these it is seen, that he was “a powerful king, whose dominions
included the whole of the northern part of India, from the river
Brahmaputra to the Western ocean, and from the Himalayas to the
mountain Mahendra (in the South), who possessed countries which
not even the Guptas and Hunas could subdue; and to whom homage
was done by even the famous king Mihirakula” of Kashmir (7bid.,
p. 255). This would seem to imply that at one time Kashmir had been
conquered by this Yasovarman. In any case the statement affords some
support for attributing to him the coins under review bearing his name.
It may perhaps be worth noting, that there is nothing in the
three inscriptions found in Malva which absolutely proves that that
country was the original dominion of Yasovarman. The inscriptions
show clearly, that he was a person of no known lineage, but originally
an obscure ‘tribal chieftain’ (jinendra or narddhipati), who suc-
ceeded in conquering the countries around him and thus founding
an empire and a family,—possibly of no long duration. On doing so,
he changed his name to Vishnuvardhana, and assumed the imperial
titles rajddhirdja and paramesvara. He may have been one of the
Tndo-Seythian chieftains of the Panjab, and by the pillars which bear
his inscriptions he may have marked the southern extent of his
victories, and the place where he transferred his capital. It is true
in the inscriptions his name is spelled Yasodharman ; but the two letters
dh and v are not unfrequently confounded, and there are other well-
known examples of words which are found spelled both with dh and v.
The name of the king, as given on the reverse, is worth noting.
It reads Sr’-Yasovarmam. There is a distinct anusvara(m) over the
final akshara rma. The orthography and inflection of the name dis-
tinctly belong to the language which may be defined as the literary
form of the North-Western Prakrit (the so-ealled Gatha dialect), a partial
sanskritisation of the vernacular Prakrit. Yasovarmam, which in other
respects agrees with Sanskrit usages, has the Prakrit nominative singu-
lar masculine termination az, instead of the regular Sanskrit termina-
tion mé. The termination am is here formed after the analogy of
such words as bhagavam, araham, ete. An exact parallel, made after
the same analogy, is the nominative singular masculine form sihim
(for Sanskrit sikhi), quoted in H. Miller’s Bettraége zur Grammatik des
Jaina Prokrit, p. 51. It is also worth noting, that in the old
Sauraseni Prakrit (according to Hemachandra, IV, 264) the vocative
singular of words of this class may end in am; e. g., bho rayam
‘O king’ (of raja), bho viayavammam ‘O Vijaya-varma’ (of vijaya-
varma) ; and the wording of Hemachandra’s rule IV, 265 is sufficiently
1888.] Philological Secretary— Reports on Coins. 183
vague to allow perhaps exceptional forms like nominative singular
vammam. The selection of his examples shows that the facts to which
he refers were not peculiar to the Sauraseni, but rather to the old
Prakrit of the Jains generally. The downward limit of the period
during which that old Prakrit language was in use is not distinctly
fixed. It was certainly current in the three or four first centuries of
the Christian era, but was gradually being displaced by the Sanskrit,
It may have lingered on later; but on the whole the evidence of the
language and of the general appearance of these coins seem to me
‘rather to favour the idea, that the Yasovarman of these coins is none
of the kings as yet known to us by that name, but that he is an other-
wise unknown Scythian tribal chieftain, of a very early period of our
era (say, of the 3rd or 4th century).
Obverse: Crude figure of king, standing to front, right arm (in wide
sleeve) pointing downwards to fire-altar; left hand supporting spear
or standard. The whole I take to be a very crude imitation of the
obverse of good Indo-Scythian coins (e. g., of Kanishka). Legend :
under left arm: fae kida; outside spear @ ka. The ‘ fire-altar’ looks
exceedingly like the akshara @ kam, and possibly that may be the
intention, the akshara forming part of the legend; though, from the
general circumstances of these and similar coins, it seems more probable
that the resemblance is merely accidental, owing to the crudeness of the
imitation of a misunderstood symbol.
Reverse: Crude female figure sitting on throne, holding cornuco-
piae in left and scroll in right hand; the whole being an extremely
crude imitation of the reverse of Vasudeva’s Ardokro coins; the throne
on which the female sits has almost entirely disappeared in the present
coins, the only indication of it that is left is the horizontal line pro-
jecting on both sides of the waist. Legend: along the right hand mar-
gin a awta sri Yasova ; on the left side in the lower field # rmam ; the
- whole being 3 quia srt Yasovarmam. The two portions of the legend
do not run in the same direction.
Messrs. Hamilton & Co., Jewellers, of Calcutta, have kindly tested
the coins at my request. They state that they are made of bronze, and
weigh 115 grains each.
Obverses. Reverses.
184 A. Mukhopadhaya—On Elliptic Functions, [ Ave.
3. The second set of coins consists of 80 Rupees, 73 of which
belong to the following emperors of Dehli :—
No. of specimen,
I. Avranezis, A. H. 1068—1118—A. D. 16538—
1707; mint and date illegible ; regnal year 15 r
II. Bandvur Suda, A. H. 1118—1124 = A. D. 1707—
1712; mint: Daru-s-saltanat Lahor; date:
BNO, twat. 302 1
III. Farrvuxustya’r, A. Hs 11241131 =v D. ‘1712—
1719; mints: Mustagqiru-l-khildfat Akbarabad
and Daru-]l-khilafat sete aX dates :
J131, 7 and —, 5.. a a 2
IV. Munammap SHAa, A. H. 11311161 — SEs “17191748;
a, type: Sahib Qirdn; mint of all: Daru-1-khila-
fat Shahjahanabad ; Bm dates 1133, 1136,
1146, 1149, 1153 . ities Jeo 18
b, type: Badshah Ghéet; eit of all Sabon one,
Dar-s-saltanat Lahor, of one, Multan; legi-
ble dates: 1134, 1144, 1148, 1152, 1157, 1158 57
The remaining coin of the second set belongs to the Sikh Raja
Rangit Sineu, dated Samvat 1885 (=1828 A. D.) and struck at Amrit-
sar. It is, however, a forgery, being copper silvered over.
The following papers were read :
1. On the Mother of Jehangir.—By ManAmanopdpuydy& KAvIRAsA
SuydMmau Dis, M. R. A. S., F. R. H.S.
2. Note on the Arthiwa (Sanskrit) Inscription —By ManAmanopi-
puydyf Kavirdsa Suy4mat Dds, M. BR. A. S., F. R. H. S., (with an
ink impression).
These papers will be published in full in the Journal, Part I.
3. Some Applications of Hlliptic Functions to Problems of Mean
Values—By Basu AsutosH Muxnopdpuydy, M.A., F.R. A.S., F. RB.
S. H.
(Abstract.)
The present paper is occupied with the discussion of some problems
of geometric mean values, which are chiefly interesting from the mode
in which the applications of elliptic fnnctions simplify the calculations.
The paper is divided into six sections, of which the first gives an ex-
pression for the area common to an ellipse and a concentric circle inter-
secting it; the result is expressed as the sum of two inverse-sine-
functions. The second section discusses the average value of the area
common to an ellipse and a concentric circle of variable radius which
1888. | Library. 185
always intersects it; the result is expressed in terms of the perimeter of
the ellipse, and, therefore, involves the complete elliptic integral:of the
second kind with the eccentricity for modulus. In the third section is
obtained an expression for the angle of intersection of the circle and the
ellipse. The fourth section furnishes the mean value of this angle of in-
tersection ; the result is found to depend on two complete elliptic integrals
of the first and third kind, with the eccentricity for the modulus; the
parameter is easily found to be the square of the tangent of the angle
which the line joining a focus with an extremity of the minor axis,
makes with that axis. The fifth section contains the calculation of the
mean value of the acute angle included between the lines joining the
opposite corners of the curvilinear quadrilateral formed by the inter-
section of the ellipse with the concentric circle of variable radius; the
result involves the complete elliptic integral of the first kind with the
eccentricity for modulus, and is also shown to be expressible in terms of
the axes and the differential co-efficient of the perimeter with respect
to the eccentricity. The sixth and last section gives the average length
of the arc of the circle intercepted by the ellipse; the mean value is
found to vary as the minor axis.
The paper will be published in full in the Journal, Part II for 1888.
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PROCEEDINGS
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ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL,
FoR NoveEMBER, 1888,
QO ——EEE————
The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal
was held on Wednesday, the 7th November, 1888, at 9 p. m.
H. F. T. Arxtnson, Esq., C. S., Vice-President, in the Chair.
The following Members were present :
Nawab Abdul Latif Bahadur, C. I. E., H. Beveridge, Esq., Babu
Gaurdas Bysack, E. C. Cotes, Esq., W. L. Criper, Esq., E. Gay, Esq.,
Dr. Hoernle, A. Hogg, Esq., T. W. H. Hughes, Esq., E. J. Jones,
Hsq., Dr. W. King, F. R. Mallet, Esq., W. H. Miles, Esq., Babu Asutosh
Mukhopadhyay, T. R. Munro, Hsq., L. de Nicéville, Hsq., H. M. Percival,
Hsq., Dr. Prasanna Kumar Ray, Babu Kiran Chandra Ray, W. L. Sclater,
Ksq., D. Waldie, Esq.
The Minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed.
One hundred and twenty-two presentations were announced, details
of which are given*in the Library List appended.
The Srcrmtary reported that the following gentlemen had been
elected ordinary members of the Society by the Council during the
recess, In accordance with Rule 7.
Babu Kali Prasanna Sen Gupta.
Babu Upendra Chandra Ray.
Brigadier-General Henry Collett, C. B., F. L. S.
The elections were confirmed by the meeting.
The following gentleman is a candidate for re-election at the next
mecting :— |
W. Crooke, Hsq., C. S., proposed by M.S. Howell, Esq., C. S.,
seconded by W. Grierson Jackson, Hsq., C. 8.
192 V. Ball—Ancient Stone implements in India. [Nov.
The following gentlemen have intimated their wish to withdraw
from the Society:
Major H. H. Cole, R. E.
R. C. Laughlin, Esq.
Capt. E. R. Shopland, I. M.
Capt. R. H. C. Tufnell, M.S. C.
The SgcreTARy reported the death of the following members :
J. MacDonald, Esq., C. E.
Surgeon-Major J. J. Monteath.
The CHAIRMAN announced that A. P. Pennell, Esq., C. S., had com-
pounded his subscription as a non-Resident member by the payment in
a single sum of Rs. 300.
The CHAIRMAN announced that in consequence of the 43 per cent.
loan of 1870 having been paid off by the Government of India, the
investment of Rs. 10,000, belonging to the Society in that loan had
been transferred to the 4 per cent. loan of 1865.
Also, that on the recommendation of the Finance Committee the
Council had sanctioned the sale of Government Securities in the 4 per
cent. loan of the nominal value of Rs. 5,000 for payment of bills on
account of the O. P. Fund.
Dr. W. Kine read the following letters :—
Ancient Stone Implements in India.—By V. Batt, M. A., F. B.S.
To the Secretary of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.
Sir,
Having recently read Mr. R. B. Foote’s paper entitled ‘ Notes on
some recent Neolithic and Paleolithic finds in South India,” I believe
it to be desirable in the interest of the history of the discovery of stone
implements in India to invite the special attention of the Society to
certain statements which it contains.
In section 4 of his paper Mr. Foote introduces me to his readers.
T sincerely hope, as it is but a few years since I had the honour of
occupying the posts of Treasurer and Natural History Secretary of the
Society, that there was no real necessity for his doing so. He then pro-
ceeds to charge me with not having given him full credit in my paper*
for his discoveries. ‘That it was my desire to do so will, I think, be
admitted by any one who takes the trouble to refer to the paper itself,
wherein I specifically mention Mr, Foote’s work at some length. My.
* “On the Forms and Geographical Distribution of Ancient Stone Implements in
India. Proe. Roy. Irish Acad., 1879,”
1888.] V. Ball—Ancient Stone implements in India. 193
whole object having been to give a comprehensive review of all that had
been published on the subject, any omission of recorded finds was ac-
cidental. I was well acquainted with all Mr. Foote’s principal papers,
and if I was unaware of what he describes as his ‘ various references’
to neolithic implements and his letter to the Geological Magazine, I can
only regret that he omitted to state his facts, when he had the oppor-
tunity of doing so, in a more distinct, not to say accessible, form.
The charge against me of not having known of these ‘ various re-
ferences’ and letter come strangely from a gentleman who confesses
(p. 263) that my paper was unknown to him* for more than six years
after its publication, although, with the exception of an earlier edition of
it published in the Proceedings in 1867, it is, I believe, the only paper
which deals with the subject of the distribution of stone implements in
India as a whole, and it has been referred to by various writers in Hurope,
India and America.
My attempt to group the facts and construct a map based upon all
the information both published and unpublished, which was known to
me at the time, had, I venture to think, certain strong arguments in its
favour, although subsequent discoveries were sure to necessitate a mo-
dification of the boundaries as then indicated.
Such colonies of ‘ Neolothic’ workers as those, of which the traces
have been recently described by Mr. Foote, may very well have been
offshoots from the many areas of distribution, and while by no means
anxious to urge my theory in opposition to well authenticated facts,
nor to press its survival if it should be proved that it ought to give
place to another, still as regards India generally I fail to see that Mr,
Foote offers anything in exchange for it. It is indeed, I think, to be
regretted: that his long devotion to the subject and the great opportuni-
ties he has enjoyed have not been more productive of conclusive gene-
ralisations as to the relations between the different classes of imple-
ments.
If Mr. Foote had been as well acquainted with the general literature
of the subject as might reasonably be expected, he could hardly have
claimed (p. 277) for the ‘discovery of the Paleolithic quartzite im-
plements of Palavaran and the Attrampakkam nullah,” that it “ really
started prehistoric research in this country.”
It is surely both a narrow and a novel use of a term to limit
‘ prehistoric research’ to the discovery of stone implements and the in-
ferences to be derived therefrom. I fancy there must have been Ar-
cheeologists in India who before that period believed they were engaged
in prehistoric research, though they may have known nothing what-
* A copy was sent to Mr, Foote but must have gone astray in the post.
194, R. Bruce Foote—Remarks on Mr. Ball’s Note. [Nov.
ever about stone implements, so that Mr. Foote’s assumption seems on
this ground alone to be hardly justified. But as regards the question
of priority, with reference to the observation and discovery of stone
implements in India, it is one which it is perhaps impossible to decide.
As early as the year 1845 Capt. Abbott* described certain agate
splinters which were found on the banks of the river Narbada, under
circumstances which we can now recognise as indicating a probably
human origin for them. Again in 1847 flint flakes found in the Circar
Warungul+ attracted attention, but as I have no means of referring to
this latter case, I cannot say whether a human origin was suggested
for them.
In reference to ‘Neolithic’ (7. e., polished) implements, the first
recorded discoveries in India were by Mr. H. P. Le Mesurier in Bandel-
khand in the year 1861, and by Mr. Theobald in 1862, and to them
therefore due priority should undoubtedly be accorded.
As to the style of Mr. Foote’s comments, it being so purely a matter
of taste, I have nothing to say, being quite content to leave it to the
judgment of readers of his paper. During the long period from 1867,
when my paper first appeared, to 1887 when Mr. Foote’s paper was
published, there was more than time for correction of any omission
which existed in the former. None had been made, however, in 1878,
when I went to press with a second edition, and when the Manual of
the Geology of India was printed, these discoveries of Mr. Foote’s were
unknown to others as well as to myself. Iam therefore led to the conclu.
sion that the chief offender in the matter was Mr. Foote himself, but at
the same time I must add that had these particular finds been well-
known and fully considered, they would not have very materially affect-
ed my conclusions as to the general features of the then ascertained
geographical distribution of ancient stone implements in India.
DUBLIN, Yours, &c.
24th July, 1888. V. Batt.
From R. Bruce Foots, Esq., in reply to the foregoing.
Remarks on Mr. V. Batw’s note.
Through the courtesy of the Naruran History Secretary I am
enabled to reply to a note by Mr. Van. Batt, F. R. 8. on my ‘ Notes on
some Recent Neolithic and Paleolithic Finds in South India,” read
before the Society on the 3rd August, 1887. Iam glad of this oppor-
tunity, as Mr. Ball accuses me of having charged him with unfairness
in failing to give me full credit for my discoveries, in his paper “ On
* J. A. S. B. XIV, p. 756.
+ Madras Jour, of Lit. and Sc. Vol. XV, p. 223,
1888. ] R. Bruce Foote—Remarks on Mr. Ball’s Note. 195
the Forms and Geographical Distribution of Ancient Stone Implements
in India,” (Proceedings, Roy. Irish Acad., 1879.)
It is quite true that I charged him with not giving me full credit
for my discoveries, but I nowhere called in question his intention to do
me full justice in the matter. I simply pointed out several omissions
on his part to make himself acquainted with prehistoric facts relating to
South India published by me at different times, and which omissions
-were, to say the least, unfortunate for a writer dealing in an ex-cathedra
_ style with the whole literature on the subject.
In the tabular list of ‘‘ Localities in India where stone implements
have been discovered ” given in his paper just quoted, he gives me credit
for the discovery of a ring-stone, but omits to-quote a celt which I
mentioned in the same note to a paper I published in the Journal of the
Madras Literary Society for 1866.* This celt I found in 1864 and made
it known in 1865, when I had fifty copies of the paper in question struck
off, nearly a year before the regular publication of the Journal, and
distributed among the leading Geologists and Archxologists in England.
I do not refer to Mr. Ball’s paper in the Proceedings of the B. A,
S. for 1867, as I have been unable to get sight of it since reading his
note which I am now replying to.
When an author who claims to be a great authority on any subject
(as Mr. Ball distinctly does in the matter of Indian Prehistoric Stone
Implements) brings out a second edition of a work, or part of a work,
on such a subject the public has a very distinct right to expect such
second edition should be fully up to date, and it was Mr. Ball’s failure
in this respect that obliged me to draw attention to his omissions.
They were the following :
1. He repeated in the list to his paper read to the Royal Irish
Academy the omission of any mention of the celt above referred to.
2. He failed to notice a paper I read to the International Prehistoric
Congress at Norwich in 1868, and which was published in the Congress
volume the next year. In this paper I referredf pointedly to my first
celt and ring-stone when speaking of the relations between the Indian
paleolithic and neolithic stone-workers, and also mentioned a second
very perfect celt I had found near Nellore in 1866.
3. Mr. Ball also overlooked my letter to the Geological Magazine
(in 1873) on the subject of the late Mr. W. Fraser’s discoveries of
neolithic centres at Bellary, and some similar finds of my own in that
region.
* See second part of footnote (2), page 10.
+ Vide Transactions of the International Congress of Prehistoric Archzology,
Norwich, 1868. Longmans, London, 1869, p. 236.
196 R. Bruce Foote—Remarks on Mr. Ball’s Note. [ Nov.
Surely Mr. Ball cannot be in earnest when he writes of a paper
published in the Annual Volume of a great Archeological Congress like
that of Norwich, and of a letter in the pages of the Geological Maga-
zine, aS not being published in distinct and accessible forms. In what
publications could they have appeared more fitting P
4, The last of my charges Mr. Ball has in his note passed by in
silence!!! I referred to the collection of palseolithic and neolithic imple-
ments I exhibited at the Vienna Exhibition in 1873. The collection
contained about a dozen neolithic celts, besides corn-crushers, mealing-
stones and pounders, all distinctly labelled and shown conspicuously in
the Indian Gallery.
Believing Mr. Ball to be much interested in such antiquities, and
being justly rather proud of my collection, I showed it him myself shortly
after his arrival in Vienna. After my departure for India the collection
remained till the close of the Exhibition in the charge of my friend
Dr. Wm. King (the present Director of the Geological Survey of India),
so that Mr. Ball had some four months’ time in Vienna in which to
examine the specimens more closely had it so pleased him. But not only
this, the collection which I presented to the Geological Museum in Calcutta
was on show there for many years after: here again, however, Mr. Ball
ignored, or overlooked, the neolithic specimens, and worked out his
startling theory based on the imaginary occurrence of only one celt
found in Coorg.
That Mr. Ball’s paper in the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Aca-
demy did not become known to me for six years after its publication I
much regret, but it was nothing remarkable, as that gentleman must
himself know after a lengthened residence in India. It is impossible
for a private individual with lmited means to take in every scientific
serial going, however much he might wish so to do. The publication
was one I never saw, and no one drew my attention to Mr. Ball’s paper.
I regret the fact most certainly, but cannot take any blame to myself
about it. The copy of his paper he sent me [I never received, and he
never asked me, or wrote to me, for any information about South
Indian prehistorics; had he done so, I could, even as early as 1878, have
given him so many facts bearing on the distribution of neolithic imple-
ments, that he would probably have been saved committing himself to
his ill-founded theory regarding the supposed low state of develope-
ment of the Dravidian tribes in South India.
Mr. Ball is angry with me and holds that I am the chief offender in
the whole matter, because I did not long since write and point out his
omission to notice the priority of my first celt. I ought perhaps to have
done so, and certainly should have, had it occurred to me that such a
1888. ] R. Bruce Foote—Remarks on Mr. Ball’s Note. 197
grand ethnographic theory could have been based by any man on such
purely negative evidence as his belief in the occurrence of only one
specimen of a polished celt in the Peninsula. Why he should be
anery at all I don’t quite see, for he winds up his note in a most self-
contented spirit by the remark: “ At the same time I must add that
had these particular finds (which he had overlooked or forgotten) been
well known and fully considered, they would not have very materially
affected my conclusions as to the general features of the then ascer-
tained Geographical Distribution of ancient stone implements in India.”
-I daresay not! for even now he is strongly inclined to back up his
theory and to regard the neolithic settlements of the Peninsula as only
** offshoots from the Main Areas of distribution.”? By the Main Areas
of distribution he doubtless means the province which he has shown
by a grey tint in the map illustrating his paper, and yet in his hst of
localities for neolithic finds, he does not quote a single instance of the
connection of such finds with any locality known to have been inhabited
by the people that made the polished implements, much less does he
point out the connection of the implements with centres of their manu-
facture, or mention localities where other articles for domestic use, or
for purposes of ornament, have also been found in intimate and un-
mistakable association with the celts. All the celts enumerated in his
list (with one doubtful exception) were found either casually on the
surface or else arranged in temples around Mahadevs (Lingams, Phalli),
positions which throw not the faintest light on their origin or local
derivation.
It would certainly appear to me that the region in which the loca-
lities inhabited by the celt-makers are distributed in considerable num-
bers, and traces of the manufacture of celts and the very various other
implements used by the same people abound, should rather be regarded
as the main area of distribution.
In my paper I enumerated over 40 localities inhabited by the celt-
makers, and I can now add 16 more to my list; several of them of great
importance, besides many fresh places in which casual finds have been
made by myself or others. Within the last few months celts have been
found in Malabar, on the West Coast (by Henry Gompertz, Esq.,
Deputy Superintendent, Madras Survey) and near Chingleput (by the
Rey. A. Andrew.)
On the question of priority of neolithic finds, I have only claimed
priority for my finds in South India. The agate flakes found by
Captain Abbott in 1845, in the banks of the Nerbudda, were not re-
garded by him as of human origin, and the flint flakes found in the
Circar Warangal in the Nizam’s Dominions, in 1847, are so briefly al-
198 R. Bruce Foote—Remarks on Mr. Ball’s Note. [ Nov.
Juded to, that it is quite impossible to be certain as to their real nature ©
so neither of these finds required any notice at my hands. Mr. Le ~
Mesurier’s and Mr. Theobald’s discoveries of celts in Bandelkhand do not —
belong to South India, so I should never have dreamt of claiming priority —
over them, even had I not known that they were made prior to mine by _
four and three years respectively.
The expression used by me when I said that the discovery of palz-
olithic quartzite implements in the lateritic formations near Madras —
“really started prehistoric research in this country”? was hardly too
strong, for it attracted the attention of scores of observers where there
had been none before, just as the recognition of Boucher de Perthes’ merit
in discovering the flint implements of the Somme valley was really the
day-break in Hurope of Prehistoric Archeology as now understood.
Mr. Ball thinks I have offered nothing in exchange for his theory!
I think I have offered a number of important facts which abundantly
show how utterly baseless and untenable it was. The great discoveries
since made he loftily passes by with the remark that it is to be regretted
that my long devotion to the subject, and the great opportunities I have
enjoyed ‘‘ have not been more productive of conclusive generalizations
as to the relations between the different classes of implements”?! Here I
would only remark that the paper he criticises contains two very im-
portant generalizations: firstly, that the makers of the cores and flakes
were a neolithic people, to wit the celt-workers themselves! Secondly,
that the later polished stone period overlaps the beginning of the iron
period ; the early iron-workers being the lineal descendants of the celt-
makers, and to some extent celt-makers themselves. To these I will
add a third and fourth generalization, namely, that the early iron-workers
were the stock from which sprang the Dravidian tribes at present
inhabiting the Peninsula, and (fourthly) that no evidence has yet been
obtained which can safely connect the chipped stone folk with the
makers of polished celts. There is then no ground for assuming, as
Mr. Ball did, ‘‘ that the Dravidians who came from the North-West ”
may have been the people who manufactured the flakes and cores of
North-Western and Central India ‘‘ and who afterwards, when they had
pushed off the Dekan basalt further south, took to making the chipped
quartzite axes from a material which then became more accessible to
them.’”* The fact is the early Dravidians appear first as a neolithic,
not as a paleolithic people, and had by the beginning of the iron period
attained to considerable proficiency in the manufacture of stone imple-
ments in great variety, of pottery of considerable elegance of shape and «
fineness of material, and lastly of articles of ornament such as necklaces
* Loc. cit., p. 4138.
1888. ] Lt.-Col. Cunningham—Letter on Monge’s Hquation. 199
of beads and bangles made of sections of chauk shells (Mazza rapa).
Their possession of lapis lazuli and chauk shells alone proves that they
must have had commercial relations with very distant peoples from the
extreme North-West to the extreme South of India.
Camp, ADONI, R. Bruce Foore.
26th November, 1888.
The Narorat History Secretary read the following letter :
S. M. H. Chatham, England, 10th August, 1888.
Sir,
. In afootnote on p. 74 of Proceedings Asiatic Society of Bengal for
1888, Babu Asutosh Mukhopadhyay complains that a certain solution
of Monge’s differential equation of a conic, published by him in the
Journal, Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. LVI, p. 138 (issued in India in
November 1887) has been reproduced by me in the ‘ Messenger of
Mathematics’ for January 1888; and he complains that it is ‘ repro-
duced of course without acknowledgment that it had been given before ”’
(by him).
The facts are that my paper was in my Hditor’s hands either in 1886
or early in 1887, and was in type and out of my hands about December
1887, (although the latter part of it containing the solution in question
appears in the Number for January 1888).
These facts can be verified by application to the Editor.
I deny therefore that any part of my Paper is in any sense a repro-
duction, and I submit that the imputation of reproduction of course with-
out acknowledgment was unjustifiable.
I shall show in another place that the results which I published
eleven years ago, which are held up in the Paper quoted at great length
(10 pages) as irrelevant, totally erroneous, &c., are not quite so absurd as
therein depicted.
Yours faithfully,
ALLAN CUNNINGHAM, Lr.-Cou., R. E.
Basu AsvrosH MuxuopApuydy made the following remarks in reply
thereto.
GENTLEMEN,
A question of priority 1s always so delicate a matter that
I would willingly keep myself aloof from it, only if it were pos-
sible; but as Lt.-Col. Cunningham is evidently anxious to see the
matter discussed, I cannot honestly keep back, specially as I feel that
_ the remarks to which he takes objection, were not only perfectly justi-
fiable at the time they were written, but remain so up to the present
200 A. Mukhopadhyay— Reply to Lt.-Col. Cunningham. { Nov.
moment. Let us see, then, what the plain facts of the case are. In
the first place we find that the Mongian equation, though first given
about eighty years ago, remained for a long series of years unsolved in
any direct and elementary way. You will remember that in July 1887,
I read a paper before our Society, in which I gave, I believe for the
first time, among other things, a direct elementary solution of the Mon-
gian equation; this paper, read in July, was published on the 2nd
November 1887, though in the preceding August I had distributed to
my friends both here and in England, the extra copies of the paper with
which I had been furnished by the Society. Now, in April last I found
that in the February Number of the Messenger of Mathematics (which
had been published in Cambridge in March) there was a paper by Col.
Cunningham giving exactly the same solution of the Mongian equation
a3 had been given before by me, and the transformation not only
appeared in the Colonel’s paper, but it appeared without any acknow-
ledgement that it had been given before; I, therefore, put a note in
our February Proceedings (which were then passing through the
press), calling attention to this point; in this note I stated that my
transformation was reproduced in the Messenger without any ac-
knowledgement, though Col. Cunningham was fully acquainted with
my paper at the date of publication of his article. Of course, as I had
expected, he takes objection to this remark, and tries to explain it
away ; but, gentlemen, I will presently show you that it is impossible
to escape. We have, then, the two facts that my paper was published
in Calcutta in November and his in Cambridge four months later. Of
course, these two facts taken together prove nothing; for he being
in England and not a member of our Society, it does not follow that
he had an opportunity of seeing my paper before his article was pub-
lished. You will, therefore, expect me to produce some direct evi-
dence on the point, and under ordinary circumstances, it would be
impossible for me to do so. But, gentlemen, in this case, the Colonel
himself has been good enough to furnish us with a very satisfactory
evidence. If yourefer to the February Number of our Proceedings,
you will find on page 73, a letter from Col. Cunningham, in which
he criticizes that very paper of mine on the Mongian equation
which contains the transformation in question ; and you will see that his
letter was written on the 29th December 1887; it follows, therefore,
that in December 1887, that is to say, two clear months before the date
of publication of his paper, he had studied my memoir. This, then,
substantiates the statement I made; how is it, I ask, that knowing my
solution in December, he published the same thing in February, with-
out the slightest acknowledgement that it had been given before by me.
1888. | Philological Secretary— Reports on Coins. 201
It does not at all improve matters by saying that his paper was written
before he had seen my solution; there may or may not be evidence of
that ; and you will also notice that even if it be shown that his paper
was written before he had seen mine, that would be no proof whatever
that the particular portion which contains the solution in question,
formed any part of the paper as originally written. At any rate, from
what I have shown, there cannot be the slightest doubt that at least
two months before his paper was published, the Colonel had seen mine,
and yet allowed his paper to appear just as if he had never heard of my
solution. I think, therefore, that the remarks I made are perfectly
justifiable, and though they are probably severe, I see no reason to
withdraw them.
The Painotoaican Secretary read the following reports on finds of
old Treasure Trove Coins:
I. Report on five ancient copper coins, forwarded by the Deputy
Commissioner of Rawal Pindi, with his No. 2063G, dated the 19th
July, 1888.
These coins are stated to have been found in the Rawal Pindi
District, without any further specification. Two of them are entirely
illegible, every trace of figures or letters being obliterated. The three
others are in indifferent condition, but sufficient traces of the impres-
sions remain to identify them as Indo-Scythian ; viz.,
1, a large copper coin of Hoerki (Kenorano), as figured in Ariana
Antiqua, Pl. XIII, fig. 10.
2, a small copper coin of Kanerki, as figured in Ariana Antiqua,
Pie XL foe 20:
3, a small copper coin; uncertain ; on obverse, traces of a standing
figure; on reverse, traces of an enthroned figure. It may
possibly be a Bactrian, with an enthroned Zeus on the reverse.
II. Report on 99 old silver treasure trove coins, forwarded by the
Collector of Sarun with his No. 778G, dated 11th August, 1888.
These coins are stated to have been found in the village Usri,
Police outpost Bathuniyd, Police station Sewan, Subdivision Sewan, on
the 25th June 1885. Their value is estimated at Rs. 105-3.
They are rupees of the following Mughal Emperors :
No. of
specimens,
1, S#in Janén, 1037-1068 A. H. = 1627-1658 A. D.,
of the two-square-areas type, dates and mints
illegible 504 aes see ae 2
Philological Secretary—Reports on Coins. [ Nov.
No. of
specimens.
AvRANGZI'B, 1068—1118 A. H. = 1658—1707 A. D.,
legible dates 1093, 1099, 1102, 1103, 1109, 1110,
legible mints: Surat, Multan, ee one has
Daru-l-Khair Ajmir, 1110 14
Bauwdvur SHAn, 1118—1124 A. H. = 1707—1712,
A. D., legible dates 1123, 1124; eee mints :
ss fen sbhd) Lakhnat 5
JAHANDAR SHAn, 1124 = 1712 A. By snditteront
specimen, date 1124, mint Lakhnat 1
FarrRvkH Styar, 1124—1131, A. H. = 1712—1719,
A. D., legible dates 1125, 1126, 1129, 1130, legi-
ble mints: Murshidabad, Htawa, Léhor, Farrukh-
abad, Daru-l-khilafat Shah Jahandbad, Kam-
bayat, Strat, 4 have Mustaqaru-l-mulk ’Azimé-
bad boc 24,
MonamMan Suu, 1131—1161 A. HH. — 1719-1748,
Ae).
a, type Sahib Qiran, date illegible, mint Daru-l-
khilafat Shah Jahanabad ae 2
b, type Badshah Ghazi, various dates, mint mostly
’Azimabad, Gwaliyar ... 42
Safa ’ Azam, 1175—1221 A. H. = 1759—1806 A. D.,
dates illegible, mint Lakhnat cee 6
Axpar IT., 1221—1253 A. H. = 1806—1837 A. DA
mint TES date (on one) 1253, regnal 34 Gal
consistent), with the Bhartpur ‘dagger ’ wae 4
Total 99
III. Report on 375 silver coins, forwarded by the Deputy Com-
missioner of Wardah with his No. 4759, dated 14th September, 1888.
Together with the coins were forwarded a so-called Ta’wiz, of
silver, and a small gold plate with the figures of Jagannath.
In a subsequent communication of the Deputy Commissioner,
dated the 29th September, 1888, it was stated that the whole treasure
had been found in Mauza Anjhi, Tahsil Wardha, in digging an old wall
standing on the site of a house which belonged to the finder.
The
latter asserted that it had been buried by his grandfather, and that his
father had been aware of it, but did not know.the particular spot where
it had been hidden.
1888. ] Philological Sccretary—Reports on Coins. 203
The coins were received divided into four separated portions; viz.,
1, Rs. 102, called “ Nagpuri”; 2, Rs. 178 called ‘“‘ Modhoshai”’; 3, Rs.
85 called ‘‘ Chandapuri,” and 4, Rs. 10 called “ Sabji.” With the
last named portion were enclosed the silver Ta’wrz and the gold plate.
On examination the coins proved to be Rupees of the following
~ Mughal Sultans of Dehli :—
No. of
specimens.
1, AvrAnezis, 1068—1118 A. H. = 1658—1707 A. D.,
mints: Surat, Akbarabad; dates 1068,
1093, 1113... FOR, 3
2, FarRvUKH SIyar, 1124—1131 A. H. = 190 — 1719 A. D.,
mint and date illegible ; a bad specimen. 1
3, Munammap Sudn 1131 — 1161 A. i. = 1719 — 1748
ADs
a, Imperial Mintages :—Muhammadabad (Benares),
Daru-s-Saltanat cs erate Arkat; legible
dates 1181, 1140, 1152, eens cretaise te 7
b, Provincial Mintages : ela! NA Matias:
marked with the symbol & (see Prinsep’s Indian
Antiquities, Useful Tables, pp. 66, 68, footnotes) ;
said to be struck at the Chandra and Hingan Ghat
mints; but the mint named on the coins them-
selves is Strat, which is fully legible on about
half a dozen specimens, though on most of the
others no more than the final ¢ is visible (see <bid,
p- 66, No. 10); no date visible on any. On the
packets, in which they were received, 56 were
ae as ‘ Madhoshai,” and 85 as “‘ Chanda-
| ae eR Peme rire Samui
4, AHMAD ee Ban eenns ‘11611167 ig Sh = 1748
—1754 A. D.,
a, Imperial Meséagos :—Katak; no dates legible,
except 116*, and 117* on reverse of two coins.
On the packet in which they were received, they
were marked as ‘‘ Madhoshai and “ Nagpuri” ... 121
b, Provincial Mintages:—New Nagpuri Rupee,
marked by a flag, (see tbid., p. 68) .cssecsecseeceecee 16
do., marked by number 9 over flag.........sc0000 78
do., Jeswant Rao’s, marked by cross +....... “H 2
do., do., marked by the symbol V 3
On packet marked as “ Nagpuri.”
204. Philological Secretary— Reports on Coins. [Noy.
No. of
specimens,
5, ’Auamei’R Snr’, 1167—J173 A. H. = 1754—1759
A. D., Madras Rupee, marked by Wo ceccsccscccescsaveucs 1
6, SHdu ’A’ztam, 1175—1221 A. H. = 1759—1806
A, ADs,
a, Imperial Mintages: mint illegible; legible date
b, Provincial Mintages: New Nagpuri, marked by
crescent ~ (see ibid., p. 68), dated 1190 ............ i
do., Indor Rupee, marked by faced solar disk,
date 1180, mint Mulhérnagar v..ssccensseccness i
Total... 375
SS eee
The Ta’wiz (S49) or ‘amulet-holder’ is a small box in the form of
an octagonal cylinder with domed extremities, about 3} by 1} inches.
It has two ornamental rings attached near to the two ends for the pas-
sage of a string by which it may be worn. On the side it is provided
with a large square opening reaching over nearly three of its eight faces,
and covered by a lid, moveable on a hinge and furnished with a thick
knobby handle. The hinge, however, is broken. It is strongly made of
silver, and weighs nine tolas.
The other object is a very thin gold plate, embosed with three
very rudely made standing figures, apparently representing Jagannath
(Krishna), his brother Balaram and his sister Subhadra. It is fixed to
an equally thin silver plate with its ends turned over, so as to form a
frame round the images. The whole measures 1; inch square, and
weighs rather more than ; tola. It can easily be inserted in the amulet-
holder, and may be the amulet belonging to it.
IV. Report on 498 old coins, forwarded by the Officiating Deputy
Commissioner of Shahpur, with his No. 836, dated 3rd October, 1888.
These coins are stated to have been found in ploughing a field
near the village of Chitta in the salt range in the district of Shahpur.
They were enclosed in an earthen vessel, which came to pieces when
taken out of the ground. The whole of the coins, with the exception of
one, belong to Sarru-p-pin Hasan QuRLAGH, who was one of the leading
generals of Jaldlu-d-din Mankbarnin, the last of the Kharizmian Kings,
in the beginning of the 13th century A.D. See Thomas’ Chronicles of
the Pathan Kings of Delhi, pp. 85, 92, where, on p. 96, these coins are
1888.] | Philological Secretary—Reports on Coins. 205
described. They belong to the well-known type of ‘Horseman and Bull’
coins. On the obverse they show a horseman with the legend Si? Hamérah,
and, on the reverse, a recumbent humped bull, with the legend Sr¢
Hasana Kuralaka, both legends in Nagari characters. Most specimens of
these coins have the reverse legend only in the curtailed state of Kurala.
In the present collection, however, there are several which distinctly
exhibit the full reading Kwralaka.*
The one exception, above referred to, appears to be a coin of the
Sultan Swamsv-p-pi'n Inrimisn, of the same ‘horseman and bull’ type.
The name, however, on the reverse legend is too fragmentary to be
confidently identified.
All these coins are common enough. They are made of a mix-
ture of copper and silver, the former predominating.
V. Report on 62 ancient coins forwarded by the Collector of Bijnor,
ee 1707 1921
with his No. XI, 628 dated 17th August, 1888, and his No. XI, 623
dated 26th September, 1888.
The find-place of these coins is not specified, it being merely stated
that the coins ‘‘ were found buried in this district” (Bijnor). One of
the coins was received in a broken state, it being stated, that the
coin “‘ was broken by the police to test the metal.”
The coins belong to what is called ;“the Indo-Scythian class”
of coins. They have been described by the late Mr. EH. Thomas in the
Indian Antiquary, volume XII, p. 6, and belong to the sub-class of what
Mr. Thomas has called the ‘“‘ Kushan Branch” of the Indo-Scythian
tribes. They are figured in the Ariana Antiqua, plate XVIII, figs. 27,
28. ‘They show on the obverse, the figure of the king standing as usual,
under his left arm kida or kidu, beyond the spear kasha (with traces
of a third letter na), beside the small altar kshanam (or kshamna ; there
is a distinct dot or anusvadra, generally below, but occasionally beside,
the na). On the reverse, they show a seated female figure, as usual.
Over her head js a distinct crescent, either let into the dotted margin or
immediately below it (as in Prinsep’s Indian Antiquities, vol. I, pl.
XXIII, fig. 13). The monogram (quite distinct on some examples) is
generally WW, or occasionally EJ, neither of which is given m Wilson’s
list in the Ariana Antiqua. Onthe right hand margin there are two
(in some specimens apparently three) letters which in the most distinct
cases seem to read sala.
* See Dr. Hoernle’s paper on “ Some new or rare Muhammadan and Hindt
coms,” and Plate IV, in the Journal, As. Soc. Beng., vol. LVIII, Part I.
206 S. A. Hill.—The Psychrometer and the condensing Hygrometer. [ Nov.
The following papers were read :
1. On certain features in the Geological Structure of the Myelat
District of the Southern Shan States in Upper Burmah as affecting the
drainage of the country.—By BricaDieR GENERAL Couuert, C. B. Com-
municated by Dr. D. D. CunnincHam.
2. The Psychrometer and the condensing Hygrometer.—By S. A.
Hitt, Ese., B. Sc., Meteorological Reporter to the Government of the
N. W. Provinces and Oudh.
[Received October 12th. ]
(Abstract.)
After a“*description of Regnault’s condensing hygrometer and a
justification of the assumption that the thermometer immersed in the
ether has sensibly the same temperature as the surface on which the
dew is deposited, the author goes on to discuss the results of an exten-
sive series of comparative observations of the two instruments made by
him this year, together with those of a shorter series made in 1881.
Amongst the observations are some made under extreme conditions of
heat and dryness, the dew point in one instance having been 74°5 degrees
below the temperature of the air.
The conclusion arrived at is that it is unlikely that Regnault’s mo-
dification of August’s formula for reducing psychrometric observations
will be improved upon; but that whilst the formula gives results which
approximate very closely to the truth when the air round the thermo-
meter is stirred by a moderate wind, the deduced humidity is consider-
ably too high in a calm state of the atmosphere.
It is incidentally proved also that any method of reduction which
assumes that the indications of the psychrometer are independent of
barometric pressure, as do Glaisher’s factors and a table recently con-
structed by Hazen, must give erroneous results except at places situated
near sea-level.
3. Anopolophrya eolosomotis, a new Orliate Infusorian parasitic in
the alimentary canal of Xolosome chlorostictum.—By Henry H.
ANDERSON, Hsq.
4. Some new forms of Huplotes found in Calcutta Tanks.—By
Huyry H. AnpEerson, Esq. Communicated by the Microscopical Society.
5. The Butterflies of the Nilgiri District, South India.—By G. F.
Hampson, Esq., B. A., Exeter Coll, Oxford. Communicated by Tux
SUPERINTENDENT OF THE INDIAN MUSEUM.
6. Pseudopulvinaria Sikkimensis, a new genus and species of Coc-
cidae from Sikkim.—By H. T. Arxinson, Hsq., B. A.
4
7
¥
eet eS ee ey oe Le ee Ae
Be See eet ee
1888. ] S. A. Hill—Tornadoes and Hailstorms in the Doab. 207
7. The Tornadoes and Hailstorms of last April and May in the Doab
and Rohilkhand.— By S. A. Hitt, Esq., B. Sc., Meteorological Reporter
to the Government of the N. W. Provinces and Oudh.
[Received October 6th. |
(Abstract.)
An account of the violent tornadoes and hailstorms which visited
Moradabad and other places on the 30th April 1888, and of the storms at
Delhi and Tilhar on the following day. The paper gives as complete an
account of the times of occurrence and course of these storms as can be
made out from the reports obtained from district officers and others, also
of the destruction of life and property occasioned by the wind, and
especially by the hail, which accompanied them. It then goes on to
show that, whilst the conditions likely to generate such storms are not
readily terminable from pressure and wind charts at or near sea-level,
these conditions are probably explicable by the distribution of pressure
at the cloud-level, and that, on the days when the storms occurred, the
vertical distribution both of temperature and water vapour was yery
anomalous.
The paper contains appendices giving the local reports of the storms,
with charts. ?
8. Some applications of Hllipic Functions to problems of mean values
(second paper).—By Basu Asurosn Muxuopdpuydy, M. A., F. R.A. S.,
we hh. 9: a.
(Abstract.)
The problem of determining the average area common to an ellipse
and a concentric circle of variable radius always intersecting it, was,
among other questions, discussed in the author’s first paper on ‘“ Some
Applications of Elliptic Functions to Problems of Mean Values,” an
abstract of which has been given before (p. 184 ante); the present
paper is devoted to a discussion of the corresponding space analogue,
viz., to determine the average volume common to an ellipsoid and a
concentric sphere of variable radius always intersecting it. The paper
is divided into six sections, of which the first is introductory ; it is
pointed out that there are two distinct cases according as four, or only
two, of the vertices of the ellipsoid are external to the sphere; these
two cases correspond to the two cases of the radius of the sphere lying
between the middle and the shortest axis, and between the middle and
the longest axis of the ellipsoid. The next four sections contain a
detailed examination of the first case; the second section gives an ex-
pression for the common volume and the third section calculates the
mean value sought; the result is expressed in terms of Jacobi’s func-
208 Library. [ Nov.
tions and an elliptic integral. In the fourth section, this integral
is represented geometrically by the surface of the reciprocal ellipsoid.
The fifth section shows how the expression for the common volume
may be reduced to the canonical form of elliptic integrals, and it is then
pointed out how this, coupled with the results obtained in the previous
sections, gives a remarkable relation connecting four definite integrals.
The sixth and last section contains a discussion of the case when only
two of the vertices of the ellipsoid are exterior to the intersecting
sphere; it is pointed out that it is not necessary to repeat the previous
calculation for the present case, inasmuch as by an immediate appli-
cation of Dr. Catalan’s transformation, it may be made to depend on the
preceding one.
These papers will be published in full in the Journal, Part II.
9. Coins of the Muhammadan kings of Gujardt. (With 3 plates.)—
By KH, Hi. Outver, Hse.
10. Leport on Archeological excavations in Bijnour, N. W. Provin-
ces. (With exhibits)—DBy A. Macaunay Marxuam, Hsq., C, S., F. R.
Geos Beis.
11. The Coins of the Chaghatat Mughals. (With 4 plates).—By
E. EH. Ouiver, Hsq.
12. Notes un the Aboriginal tribes of the Pahdriya Kariyds, and the
Korods.— Dy W. H. P. Driver, sq.
13. A Chhatisgarht Grammar in Hindé by Mr. Ht'ra Lét Kavyo-
pApuydyA, Head Master of the A. V. School, Dhantari, Raipur, C. P.
Translated into English by G. A. Griurson, Hsq., C. S.
These papers will be published in full in the Journal, Part I.
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Band XLII, Heft 2.
London. Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland,—
Journal, Vol. XVIII, No. 1, August, 1888.
Geological Society,—Quarterly Journal, Vol. XLIV, Part 3,
August, 1888.
Institution of Civil Engineers,—Minutes of Proceedings,
Vol. XCIII.
Institution of Mechanical Hngineers,—Proceedings, May,
1888.
Linnean Society of London,—Journal, Botany, Vol. XXIII;
Nos. 152—155 and Vol. XXIV, Nos. 159—162.
i ———— —. Zoology, Vol. XX, No.
118; Vol. XXI, Nos. 180 and 131; and Vol. XXII, Nos. 136—139.
Transactions, Botany, Vol. IJ, Part 15; and
Vol. 411, Part.
—. Zoology, Vol. Ill, Parts 5 and 6.
———.. List of Fellows, December 1887.
Nature,—Vol. XXXVIII, Nos. 977—989.
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland,—Journal,
Vol. XX, Part III, July 1888.
Royal Astronomical Society,—Monthly Notices, Vol. XLVIII,
Nos. 7 and 8, May and June, 1888.
Royal Geographical Society,—Proceedings, Vol. X, Nos. 7—
9, July—September, 1888.
Royal Microscopical Society,—Journal, Parts 3 and 4, June
and August, 1888.
Royal Society,—Proceedings, Vol. XLIV, Nos. 267—270.
1888.] Library. 2il
London. Royal Statistical Society,—Journal, Vol. LI, Part 2, June,
1888.
Society of Telegraph Engineers and Hlectricians,—Journal,
Vol. XVII, No. 74.
The Academy,—Nos. 846—858.
The Athenxum,—Nos. 3169—3181.
Zoological Society of London,—Proceedings, Parts 1 and 2,
1888.
Mexico. La Sociedad Cientifica ‘‘ Antonio Alzate,”—Memorias, Tome
. I, No. 12; and Tome II, No. 1.
Montreal. Geological and Natural History Survey of Canada,—Annual
Report, Vol. If.
Moscow. la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou,—Bulletin,
No. 2, 1888. .
Naples. La Societa Africana d’Italia,—Bollettino, Anno VII. Fasc,
7 et 8, Luglio—Agosto 1888.
New Haven. American Oriental Society,—Proceedings, May, 1888.
—. Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences,—Transac-
tions, Vol. VII, Part 2.
New York. The Journal of Comparative Medicine and Surgery,—Vol.
exe ING: 3.
Paris. Journal Asiatique,—Tome XI, No. 3; et Tome XII, No. 1.
La Société de Géographie,—Bulletin, Tome IX, Nos. 1 et 2.
——. la Société Zoologique de France,—Bulletin, Tome XIII, Nos.
5 et 6.
Mémoires, Tome I, Nos. 1—3.
Prague. Der K. K. Sternwarte zu Prag,—Magnetische und Meteoro-
logische Beobachtungen, Jahre 1887.
Rome. La Societa Degli Spettroscopisti Italiani—Memoire,
XVII, Dispensa 4° —8? , Aprile—Agosto 1888.
Shanghai. Royal Asiatic Society, China Branch—Journal, Vol. XXII,
No. 5.
Simla. United Service Institution of India,—Journal, Vol. XVI, No.
#1; and Vol. XVII, No. 72.
——._ s ——-——.._ Proceedings, 13th June 1888.
——. _ List of Life Members and Annual Subscribers,
depeacted up to 3lst May, 1888.
St. Petersburg. Comité Géologique,—Bulletins, Tome VI, Nos. 11 et
12; et Tome VII, Nos. 1—5.
Bibliothéque Géologique de la Russie, 1887.
Mémoires, Tome V, Nos. 2—4; Tome VI, Nos.
1 et 2; et Tome VII, Nos. 1 et 2.
Tome
212 Library. [ Nov.
Stettin. EntomologischenVereine zu Stettin,—HntomologischeZeitung,—
Nos. 4—6, 1888.
Stuttgart. Des Vereins fiir vaterlandische Naturkunde in Wiurttem-
berg,—Jahreshefte, XLIV, Jahrgang, 1888.
Sydney. Linnean Society of New South Wales,—Proceedings, Vol. Il.
(2nd series), Part 1.
————. Royal Society of New South Wales,—Journal and Proceed-
ings, Vol. XXII, Part 1.
Tokyo. Imperial University,—Journal of the College of Science, Vol.
II, Parts 2 and 3. .
Vienna.. Der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien,—Mittheilun-
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Der K. K. Geologischen Reichsanstalt,—Verhandlungen, Nos.
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Der K. K. Zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien,—
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Yokohama. Asiatic Society of Japan,—Vol. XVI, Part 2.
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Zagreb. Hrvatskoga Arkeologickoga Druztva,—Viestnik, Godina, X,
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Euson, 8. R. Cyclones and Currents. (Reprinted from “ Englishman ”
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Goswami, Rapua Cuaran. Vidhava Vivah Vivaran, or a Treatise on
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Grosset, J. Contribution a I etude de la musique Hindoue. (Hxtrait
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Mirra, RAJA RasenpRALALA. Manuscript translation of the Vayu Purana.
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Panpia, Punprr Monantat Visunutat. The History of Rama Samarsi
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Report on Education in the Central Provinces for the year 1887-88,
FKep. Nagpur, i888.
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1887-88. Fcp. Nagpur, 1888.
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the year 1887-88. Fcp. Nagpur, 1888.
Resolution on the management by Government of private estates in the
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Forstwissenschaft. Ato. Giessen, 1888.
Dissertatio Inauguralis quam ad summos in Philosophia Honores ab
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De Comparationibus Translationibusque ex agricolarum pastorumque
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De Genere Dicendi Xenophonteo deque prioris hellenicorum partis con-
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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
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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. Giessen, 1888.
Das Biischel von Kegelschnitten, welches ein Hbenenbischel aus einem
Kegel II. Ordnung ausschneidet. Von Peter Dittmar, aus Nieder-
Ohmen. 4to. Giessen, 1888.
Des Nicolaus von Kues Lehre vom Kosmos. Von Jacob Schaefer, aus
Mainz. 8vo. Mainz, 1887.
Die Diabascontactmetamorphose bei Weilburg a.d. Lahn. Von Georg
Greim, aus Darmstadt. 8vo. Stuttgart, 1887.
Die Reden des Buches Jeremia gegen die Heiden XXV, XLVI—LI un-
tersucht. Von Friedrich Schwally, cand. theo. 8vo. Giessen, 1888.
Experimentelle Beitriige zur Kenntnis der Vorgange bei der Wasser-und
Heizgasbereitung. Von Dr. Julius Lang. 8vo. Leipzig, 1888,
216 Inbrary. [Nov.
Kéunen grossere Mengen gebundener Schwefelsiure nachteilig auf die
Vegetation wirken ? Von Georg Heuermann, Landwirtschaftslehrer.
8vo. Werl, 1888.
Lokalfirbung in Shakespeares Dramen. (Erster Teil). Von Carl Philips.
Ato. Koln, 1888.
Syntactische Studien zu Jean Calvin. Von Karl Grosse. 8vo. Giessen,
1888.
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.
Untersuchungen tiber die reciproke Verwandtschaft in der Ebene. Von
Philipp Briickel, aus Offenbacha M. 4to. Giessen, 1888.
Inaugural-Dissertation zur Hrlangung der Doctorwiirde bei der Juris-
tischen Facultiit der Grossherzoglich Hessischen Ludewigs- Universitat
zu Giessen
Die Polizeiaufsicht nach dem Reichsstrafgesetzbuche. Von Karl Fuhr,
Gerichts-Assessor. S8vo. Giessen, 1887.
Vorname und Familienname im Recht. Von Sigmund Leyi, Gerichts-
Accessist in Mainz. 8vo. Giessen, 1888.
Festschrift der Philosophischen Facultat zu Giessen.—Beitrige zur
Kenntniss der vorhistorischen Entwickelung unseres Sprachstammes.
Von Dr. Peter von Bradke. 4to. Giessen, 1888.
Habilitationsschrift der Philosophischen Fakultat der Ludewigs-Uni-
versitit zu Giessen,—Zur Theorie der Linearen Homogenen Differen-
tialgleichungen. Von Dr. Lothar Heffter. 8vo. Leipzig, 1888.
Personal Bestand der Grossherzoglich Hessischen Ludewigs-Universi- .
tit Giessen,—Winter-semester, von October 1887 bis Ostern 1888.
8vo. Giessen, 1888.
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The same—Sommer-Semester, von Ostern bis Ende September 1888.
8vo. Giessen, 1888.
Programm Sr. Konigl. Hoheit dem Grossherzoge von Hessen und bei
Rhein Ludewig IV zum 25 August 1887 gewidmet von Rector und
Senat der Landesuniversitiéit.—Phaenologische Untersuchungen von
Dr. Hermann Hoffmann. 4to. Giessen, 1887,
Verzeichniss der Vorlesungen an der Grossherzoglich Hessischen Lude-
wigs-Universitaét zu Giessen im Sommerhalbjahre 1888. 8vo. Giessen,
1888.
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GIESSEN UNIVERSITY.
Annual Report on Emigration from the Port of Calcutta to British and
Foreign Colonies for the year 1887. Fecp. Calcutta, 1888.
Catalogue of the Sanskrit manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,
London. Part I. Vedic Manuscripts. 4to. London, 1887.
Report on the Land Revenue Administration of the Lower Provinces
of Bengal for the official year 1887-88. Fep. Calcutta, 1888.
Report on Municipal Taxation and Expenditure in the Lower Provinces
of Bengal, for the year 1886-87. Fep. Calcutta, 1888.
Returns of the Rail-borne trade of Bengal during the quarter ending
the 30th June 1888. Fep. Calcutta, 1888.
The Indian Forester.—Vol. X1V, Nos. 6—8, June—August 1888, 8vo.
Roorkee 1888.
Twentieth Annual Report of the Sanitary Commissioner for Bengal for
the year 1887, including brief notes on Vaccination in Bengal for
the year 1887-88. Fcp. Calcutta, 1888.
GOVERNMENT OF BENGAL.
Brief sketch of the Meteorology of the Bombay Presidency in 1887-88.
Fep. Bombay, 1888.
GOVERNMENT OF BompBay, Martror. Dupr.
Catalogue of the Batrachia, Salientia and Apoda (Frogs, Toads, and
Cecilians) of Southern India. By Hdgar Thurston, Superintendent
Government Central Museum. 8vo. Madras, 1888,
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Home accounts of the Government of India, for 1886-87 and 1887-88.
Fep. London 1888.
Avifauna of British India and its dependencies. By James A. Murray,
F.S. A. L. Vol. II, Part 2. 8vo. London, 1888.
Copies of the recent correspondence between the India Office and the
Government of India on the subject of the Contagious Diseases and
Cantonment Acts and Regulations. Fep. London, 1888.
Copy of a circular memorandum by the Quarter Master General in
218 Inbrary. [ Nov.
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spreading of venereal disease. dated 17th June 1886. Fep. London,
1888.
Copy of the Despatch from the Secretary of State for India in Council
to the Indian Government, with respect to the Contagious Diseases
Acts and the Cantonment Acts and Regulations, Fep. London, 1888.
Copy of the Minutes of dissent by certain Members of the Council of
India from the Despatch addressed by the Secretary of State to the
Government of India regarding the Contagious Diseases Acts. Fep.
London, 1888.
Copy of the Indian Financial Statement for 1888-89, and of the Pro-
ceeding of the Legislative Council of the Governor-General upon the
Bill for the Amendment of the Indian Tariff Act. Fep. London,
1888.
Copy of Memorandum of Sirdar Diler Jung, Secretary to His Majesty
the Nizam’s Government (Home Department), on the Budget Hsti-
maie of the Railway Department for Fasli 1297. Fep. London, 1888.
Copy of a Minute by His Excellency the Governor-General of India,
dated the 5th day of February 1859; of a Letter from the Govern-
ment of India to the Government of Bengal, dated the 4th day of
March 1859; of a Letter from the Government of Bengal to Mr.
William Tayler, dated the 12th day of March 1859; and, of a Letter
from the Government of Bengal to the Government of India, dated
6th April 1859, with enclosure, regarding the case of Mr. William
Tayler, of Patna. Fep. London, 1888.
Copy of Papers relative to stipulations in Articles of agreement entered
into with Seamen on board British merchant ships in regard to the
rate of exchange at which they are to be paid off in India and else-
where. Fcp. London, 1888.
Estimate of Revenue and Expenditure of the Government of India for
the year 1887-88, compared with the results of 1886-87. Fep. London,
1888.
Explanatory Memorandum by the Under Secretary of State for India,
relating to the accounts of Government of India for 1886-87, and the
Estimates for 1887-88 and 1888-89. Fep. London, 1883.
Indian Antiquary, Vol. XVII, Part 209, June 1888. 4to. Bombay, 1888.
Report by Mr. W. J. Archer of a Journey made in February and March,
1887 in the Vice-Consular District of Chiengmai, Siam. Fep. London,
1888.
Report by Mr. F. S. A. Bourne of a journey through the South Western:
Provinces of China between October 1885 and May 1886. Fep.
London, 1888.
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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. Madras, 1888.
GOVERNMENT OF Mapras.
Report on the Horticultural Gardens, Lucknow, for the year ending
3lst March, 1888. Fep. Allahabad, 1888.
Report on the progress and condition of the Government Botanical
Gardens at Saharanpur and Mussoorie, ‘for the year ending 31st
March, 1888. Fep. Allahabad, 1888.
GovERNMENT oF N.-W. P. anp Ovnu.
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Gazetteer of the Simla District, 1888-89. 8vo. Calcutta, 1888.
Report on the Administration of Civil Justice of the Punjab and its
Dependencies during the year 1887, Fep. Lahore, 1888.
Report on the revision of Settlement of the Panipat Tahsil and Karnal
Parganah, of the Karnal District. 8vo. Allahabad, 1883.
Report on the Sanitary Administration of the Punjab for the year
1887-88. Fecp. Lahore, 1888.
Report on Vaccination in the Punjab for the year 1887-88. Fep.
Lahore, 1888.
GOVERNMENT OF Pounzap.
A Catalogue of the Moths of India. Part III. Noctues, Pseudo-deltoides,
and Deltoides. 8vo. Calcutta, 1888.
Inp1aAn Museum,
Die Handschriften-Verzeichnisse der Koniglichen Bibliothek zu Ber.
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220 Library. [ Nov.
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Verzeichniss der Armenischen Handschriften. Von Dr. N. Karamianz.
4to. Berlin, 1888.
Kontenicne BisniotHeK zv Berwin.
Report on the Prowineisl Museum at Lucknow, for the year ending 31st
March 1888. Fep. Lucknow, 1888.
Provincia, Museum, Lucknow.
Report for the year 1886-87, presented by the Board of Managers of the
Observatory of Yale University to the President and Fellows. 8vo.
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The Entomologist,—Vol. XXI, Nos. 302—304, July—Sep-
tember, 1888.
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——. The Journal of Botany,—Vol. XXVI, Nos. 306—309, June—
September, 1888.
The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine,
—Vol. XXVI, Nos 158—160 (V" series), July—September, 1858.
The Messenger of Mathematics,—Vol. XVIII, No. 3, July,
1888.
The Nineteenth Century,—Vol. XXIV, Nos. 138—140, August
—October, 1888.
The Numismatic Chronicle, Vol. VIII (34 Series), Part 2,
1888.
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The Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science,—Vol.
XXIX, Part 1, July 1888.
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Vol. XXIII, No. 90, June, 1888.
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CXI, Nos. 22—26 ; Tome CVII, Nos. 1—9.
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OO OOO
PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
ASIATIC SOCIETY. OF BENGAL,
For PECEMBER, 1888,
eS
The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was
held on Wednesday the 5th of December 1888, at 9 P. mM.
Lievt.-Cou. J. WateRHOUSE, President, in the Chair.
The following members were present :—
KH. T. Atkinson, Hsq., H. 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
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Vienna. Der K. K. Geologischen Reichsanstalt,—Verhandlungen, No.
18, 1888.
Zagreb. Hrvatskoga Arkeologickoga Druztva,—Viestnik, Godina. X,
Br. 4. :
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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.
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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 <a 224
obi appointment of ... ee el “Be 95
Aurangzib, notice on coins of Si 5h ie 4, 5
A’zam Shah (son of Aurangzib) notice on coins of ... ae 4
Bactrian coins, notes on some new te, ae i 127
Ball (V.), on ancient stone implements in India __... _ 192
Barclay (Dr. A.), elected Member of Natural History Gaimueniitee 95
Barisal Guns, remarks on the e) “ae oe
» .y @Xpenditure of Rs. 500 sondlinwetls for making
enquiries regarding ... ye oe 140
Barnes, (F. C.), Withdrawal of a iss 93
Beames, (J.), elected Member of Peele eee Ginette i 94
55 ,, elected Member of History and Archeological
Committee ... i al ib.
Beveridge, (H.), elected Member of Gone a 72
af », elected Member of Philological Gannnnes Sole 94
- ,, elected Member of History and wit =
Committee A ab.
»» paper on Akbar and Hepner Jerome arr ae 116
Bkatotpala’ s commentary on Varaha Mihira’s Brihat Samhita to
be published in the Bibliotheca Indica a Ls 95
Bibliotheca Indica, notice of works undertaken in ... aw 19; 40
Bicircular Quartic, note on a back bi ay 228
Bijnor, find of Treasure Trove coins in ... an AG 205
, Archeological excavations in ... ae ssi 208
Index.
Biology, notice of papers on.
Blandford, (H. F.), list of the Ferns of Simla
‘ (W. T.), notes on some Indian Chiroptera
Bloomfield, (Col. A.), note on Copper Celts found in the Bilighit
district wos ale bi x
Blyth, (W. D.), Maendcawal of sa
Bodhipathapradipa, MSS. of, exhibited..
Bombyx Arracanensis
Az Creesi
- Fortunatus
» Meridionalis
_ Mori
99 Sinensis ooo ooe eee eoe
Textor ide
Epeks, Rs. 1,000 sanctioned for Beane per roelidelle: $e
Bose (P. N.), elected Member of Physical Science GdieMities or
Botany, notice on aa
Boxwell, (J.), elected ehdbat of Biilolosioel Commies ee
Brahmanda Purana, translation of
Brahma Vaivarta Purana, translation of icin Ganesa cia
Prakriti Khandas and Krishna-janmakatha )
Brihannaradiya Purana, translation of .
Bruce-Foote, (R.), on ancient stone din eae in Tain
Buddhist copper coins found at Tumlook
Building, expenditure on
Butterflies, on new or little known, frit thé fiades region
5 of the Nilgiri district
Bysack (Gaurdas), compounded subscription as a Neat Resident
Member
elected Member of Hiside y and higvinenlogical
Committee soe
paper regarding the Barisal Gane
note on Buddist copper coins, and a terra
cotta figure
exempted from payment of fur oe an ip-
tion as Resident Member
Chaghatai Mughals, coins of
Chhatisgarhi grammar in Hindi
Chiroptera, notes on some Indian
Coin Cabinet, report on
Coins Committee, election of
118
124
208
ab.
156
i
94
238 Index.
Page
Coins exhibited by Philological Secretary 96, 98
», note on some new Bactrian and Gupta 127
5, new or rare Muhammadan and Hindt 228
»» purchased from Mr. Delmerick of 124
» reports on finds of old as 96, 126, 140, 179, 201
Cole (Major H. H.), withdrawal of as ai 192
Collett (Brig-Genl. H.), elected an Ordinary Meanber £94
2 _ se on certain features in the Geological
structure of the Myelat district,
Upper Burmah ss 206
Committees, election of ue 94,
Copper Celts, note on, by Col. A. Bloomseld 155
Cotes, (HE. C.), elected Member of Natural History Committee. 95
” ” exhibited specimens of Wheat and Rice Weevils.. 153
re - exhibited a collection of Indian Silk srodacres
Moths i ie 174
Council, abstract of Proceedings of, dpe 1887 29
» election of , it 72
Cricula Trifenestrata 176
Crombie, (Dr. A.), account of the iain Brenda on 7th ree il
1888 Ne he a 142
Crooke, (W.), re-elected an Orders Member 223
Cunningham, (Dr. D. D.), elected member of Natural Histor:
Committee 95
3 . elected Member of Physiral Seieies
Committee ab.
(Lt.-Col. Alan), letter regarding irra S Rigiation 73, 199
Dacca, Tornado at, on 7th April 1888 . 14,2
Das, (Saratchandra), exhibited a Saeed noe maha by fe
Tantriks of Tibet a 73
i, iy exhibited Tibetan MSS. of the Bodhi.
pathapradipa ao oe 224
Death of members ; “i 2, 93, 164, 192
Delmerick, (J. G.), Sola cHGA of coins narekaned from 124
Dravidian works, notice of . 55
Driver, (W. H. P.), diacovery of some ee from a Neolithic
settlement at Ranchi 3
i is elected member of History and Ar ~chimolos
gical Committee.. : is 95
as F account of the ‘“ nee Seana or ‘women’s
hunt’ amongst the aboriginal tribes of
Lohardugga 164
Indez. 239.
Page
Driver, (W. H. P.), note on the aboriginal tribes of the Pahariya
Kariyas and Koroas a 208
Dubern, Mr., exhibited a new method of ‘iste laeiiie for the
Microscope ss 164
Duthie, (J. F'.), elected ecmsistiae of Matiral History asrantitieecs é 95
Hhiot, (J.), elected member of Physical Science Committee... vb.
Elliptic Functions, some applications of, to Problems of Mean
Value 30 ; . L84, 207
- Elson, (S. R.), elected aasabes of Enya Saiaate Comimitton, 23 95
59 remarks by, regarding the Barisal Guns ate 112
Min plutes tis S60 viel ses vr 206
Fedden, (F.), death of re vise se oe 2
Ferns of Simla, list of a: mas “a ii 156
Fiddian, (W.), withdrawal of ae aan side 224
Finance Committee, election of dus tal “0 94
Finance, notice of 2 3% as hs 15
Foreign Societies, notice of.. ee 49
Fiihrer, (Dr. A.), elected ene of Bintlaiogicel ican s Lt 94
5 ss elected member of Coins Committee ab.
¥ 55 elected member of History and Ar chtsolosiaal
Committee 95
Gangeya Deva, two silver coins of, eee ie PEvloloeical
Secretary ... se ss ay 96
Gay, (H.), elected member of Council ... as 5a 72
» 99. lected member of Library Committee ... Bee 94
» 9 elected member of Finance Committee ... se wb.
General Secretary, election of 72
Geographical Society of Paris, will bahia a 5 Geoceacd Caitiers
in August 1889 ae se 164
Geographical Societies, notice of papers Sanblehenl by we 40, 47
Geological Survey, work of the ies Ss as 67
Ghosha, (P. C.), elected member of Council sips es 72
z, es elected member of Library Committee i 9
2 : elected member of Finance Committee bes ab.
ms » elected member of Philological Committee ... ib.
im 5 elected member of History and 5 scala to
Committee ss ab.
Giles, (Dr. G. M.), elected member of N Ariel Higton "'y pearls 95
He elected member of Physical Science Committee ab.
Ee erson; (G. A.), elected member of Philological Committee .. 94.
translation of a Chhatisgarhi grammar in
Hinds =. oie oe sae 208
9 93
240 Index.
Growse, (F'. S.), elected member of Philological Committee
- » elected member of History and Archeological
Committee
Gujrat, coins of the Mahomedan Ringe. of
Gupta, (Asutosh), the Ruins and Antiquities of Ramp
» (B.1L.), withdrawal of
» coins, letter from Mr. V. A. Smith beading:
5 » notes on some new a
» (Kali Prasanna Sen), elected an Ordtiany Nicene
», (Rajanikanta), elected an Ordinary Member..
Hackett, (C. A.), withdrawal of
Hailstorms, in the Doab
Hampson, (G. F.), The butterflies of thie ele dat ict
Hart, (J.), death of me ne sas
Heteroptera, notes on pe
Hill, (S. A.), elected seuinber of Phare Science Comes me
3 ‘ The Psychrometer and the condensing Hygrometer
a! i Tornadoes and Hailstorms in the Doab
History and Archeological Committee, election of ..
Hoernle, (Dr. A. F. R.), elected Philological Secretary
2 se note on some ancient Nepalese copper
coins
. ie notes on some new eaeuion and Gants
coins
a ss on new or rare Mintdcntnndaes and Hinds
coins
Hogg, (A.), elected member of Coins Commies
Hoshangabad, find of Treasure Trove gold coins in
Indian Antiquary, notice of papers published in
» Aryan works, notice of a
» Museum, Trustees of...
ms oF presentations to
mS ¥ acquisitions
» Notes and Queries, notice of
», Rhyncota, notes on ...
», silk producing Moths, a puilestion of saibited by Mr.
Cotes ...
Indo-Chinese works, notice of wee Pi
Invertebrata, notice of papers on
Investment of Rs. 10,000 in 45 per. cent woah éhaltererea to 4 per.
cent. loan ... sd ae oe
158
174:
192
i fe
Mac Donald, (J.), death of .
Index. 241
— Page
Iranian-Aryan works, notice of — oe ae Ol
Jabalpur, find of Treasure Trove coins in Ps 96
Jahan Qadr Muhammad Wahid Ali Bahadur, bevaces sede
member of Library Committee 94,
‘ elected member of Philological Committee ab.
J —, (Col. H. S.), elected member of Philological Committee ab.
Jehangir, on the mother of . 4% 184
Jones, (H. J.), elected spores of Netoeal History Gasaniieger: 95
Ps 9 elected member of Physical Science Committee .. ab.
» (S.S.), death of 93
Jubilee address, acceptation of, by Her Arent fie nese 174
Kabir-ud-din Ahmad, Khan Bahadur, cat re-elected an
Ordinary Member ie 151
Kalika Purana, translation of 178
Kam Bakhsh (son of Aurangzib), notice on coins of . 4A, 5
Kavyopidhydya, (Hira Lal), Chhatisgarhi Grammar in Fendt 4 208
Khuda Bakhsh Khan Bahadur, (Maulavi), elected member of
Philological Committee 94
King, (Dr. G.), elected member of Wataral History Common 95
King (Dr. W.), elected member of Council 72
, elected member of Library Committee... 94
ma » elected member of Natural History Committee 95
» 9 elected member of Physical Science Committee ab.
” » appointed Treasurer 224
Korods and Pahariya Kariyas, note on the Aparna tribes sy. 208
Ktrma Purana, translation of seis ae 177
Lafont, (Rev. Father), elected member of Physical Bovanien Com-
mittee 95
La Touche, (J. J. D.), sleeved member oe Physical Sues bons |
mittee ab.
53 (T. D.), remarks ea varetine the Banail Guns EE
Laughlin, (R. C.), withdrawal of ; sad 192
Lee, (W. H.), elected an Ordinary Member 13
Library aga 5, 18, 87, 116, 134, 144, 158, LO”, 185, 208, 228
& Committee, election of ss si 94,
Linga Purana, translation of i 177
Lohardugga, account of the “ Hra Sen des, or ‘women’s hunt’
among the aboriginal tribes of 164
London Agency... 17
Lyall, (C. J.), elected Serihen of Philolomieal Gémaiittee 94,
192
242 Index.
Page
Mahomed Zainool Abideen Khan Bahddur Feroze Jung, elected :
an Ordinary Member ... ae ee si, 178
Markandeya Purana, translation of bts iF 177
Markham, (A.M.), report on Archeological Bbvations 4 in BYhour 208
Medlycott, (Rev. A. E.), removed from list of Members as a -
defaulter ... oe an a ke 73
Member list, state of ane Pe ane 14
Members, death of see = 2, 93, 164, 192
a election of a 73, 123, 139, 151, 163, 173, 191, 223
" of Council, election of a ae a 72
ee removed as defaulters ane 73
withdrawal of _... 2, 73, 98, 123, 140, 152, 192, 224
Meteorology, notice on oe 70
Microscope, a new method of “eta ee for, exhibited by Mr.
Dubern ace ; 164
Middlemiss, (C. S.), eledted idetatier of ‘Natural History oars
mittee us 95
i. 5, elected member of ‘Physiéal Béionds Canis
mittee sce ee
Mir Mahomed Ali, (Nawab), elected an Os dinary MeiAter ae 139
Miscellaneous coins, note on oh 3
Mitra, (Raja R.), elected Vice- Beaenn ; a: 71
a ot elected member of Library Cuiintttes nt 94
4 zs elected member of Finance Committee ses ab.
. 3 elected member of Physical Science Committee ab.
i 3 elected member of Coins Committee ab.
. a elected member of History and ‘anelaalowienl
Committee edn ee: es ab.
Mondy, (EH. F.), withdrawal of zs 73
Monge’s Differential Equation to all Conics, camartesl on 73, 165
the Geometrical Interpretation a 157
192
apncoatie iSarcooi Major J. J.), death of
Monthly General Meetings ...1, 72, 93, 123, 139, 151, 163, 173, 191, 223
btdgnd anes of Members at 1, 13, 93,
123, 189, 151, 168, 173, 191, 223
99 9) 9
Mukerjee, (Nilmani), elected member of Philological Committee 94,
aaa aed Sau on Monge’s Differential Equation to
all Conics AS 74, 165, 189
on Poisson’s Integral ... bis 86
elected member of Physical Science
Committee eee at 95
? ; 9
Index.
Mukhopadhyay (Asutosh), on the Differential Equation of all
Parabolas
” :5 The Geometrical Titerprotation of
Monge’s Differential Equation to
all Conics..
” | 53 some mapibiauiond of Blliptic ithe!
243
Page
156
157
tions to Problems of mean values 184, 207
x note on a Bicircular Quartic
Murad Beihai (son of Shah Jahan), notice on rupee of
Myelat district, on certain features in the Geological structure
of the
Naradiya Purana, beadoTation of ane Sa sais
Natural History Committee, election of..
Peper, Secretary, election of .
BE bias, 3 read letter en Lt. Wet: netics’
on Monge’s Equation ...
Noetling, (Dr. Fritz), elected member of Natural History Oca
mittee ‘
“3 a elected member aS Physical Boenee Bon.
mittee see
Nepalese copper coins, note on some ancient
Nicéville, (L. de), elected member of Natural Histony Comknitéeo
5 2 on new or little known butterflies from the
Indian region
Nyayaratna, (Maheschandra), elected member of @onsieil
. ‘ i elected member of Library
Committee...
- i s elected susie of Philo-
logical Committee
Obituary notices ive
Oldham, (R. D.), elected member of Neal Histors Oduetittes
7“ v elected member of Physical Science Committee
ii exhibited some flexible sandstones
Giver, (E. E.), coins of the Muhammadan kings of Gujrat
rm 3 coins of the Chaghatai Mughals Ve a
Padma Purana, translation of Lae Patula. Srishti and Svarga
Khandas)
Pahariya Kariyas and Koroas, snéte on ne alabiginuk tribes ope
Pandit (Hon. Ajodhyanatha) elected an Ordinary Member
3 e . elected member of Philological
Committee iba oe
228
- 141
208
178
208
73
94
244 Indes.
Page
Pandit (Hon. Ajodhyanatha) compounded subscription as Non-
Resident Member ... a 95
Parabolas, on the T)ifferential Equation of all wes th 156
Paradoxurus, specimens of, exhibited by Mr. Sclater ie 124
Paris Geographical Society, notice of papers published by se 47
Peal, (S. E.), elected member of Natural History Committee ... 95
Pearse. (Lt.-Genl. G. G.), withdrawal of i ies 224
Pedler, (A.), elected Treasurer a 72
» . on the nature of the Toxic ieee of vines ae 116
ie », on the Dacca Tornado ep tae ace 142
ig 5, resigned Treasurership ... sai sib 224
Pennell, (A. P.), elected an Ordinary Member a ies 15]
ne . compounded subscription as Non-Resident
Member . ies e 192
Percival, (H. M.) elected Generel Siaieatay sick ob 72
Periodicals, Rs. 1,000 sarctioned for binding ee as 152
Peterson, (EF. W.), withdrawal of se 2
He (Prof.), to edit Bhattotpala’s adteasaiay on yarain
Mihira’s Brihat Samhita for the Bibliotheca Indica .. 95
Petley, (Lieut. H. W.), elected an Ordinary Member a 153
Philological Committee, election of hs sid “o 94
3 Secretary, election of dh bes 72
ee bs exhibited coins of Gangeya ors 96
ss Ce reports on finds of old coins 96, 126, 140,
179, 201, 224
Physical Science Committee, election of = 13 95
Poisson’s Integral, note on.. i me ed 86
President, annual address of os see a 38
- announced that Mr. Wood- Micon was going on a
cruise in the “ Investigator”’ to do some deep sea
dredging ba Acs sie bee 124
i election of nies 71
» .. to be an Honorary re ae of the Miproeco mien
Society Ba 224
Presentations, Pee cbireths of, le 73; 93, 123,139, 151, 163, 173, 191-223
Prideaux, (Lt.-Col. W. L.), elected member of Coins Committee 94
Prizes for the best Essays on Tornadoes ... aa tee 174
Pseudopulvinari Sikkimensis : bi a. 206
Psychrometer and the condensing Fisdraaniohen ee a8 ab.
Publications, Proceedings and Journal . sae sm Lowoo
Puranas, list of translations of in the eicicurs Library ave 177
Index. 245
) Page
~ Quinton, (Hon. J. W. ), forwards an old oil portrait for identi-
fication 1s; ae ise ae 124
Rafiu-d-Darjat, notice of a rupee of __... eee 4
Rainey, (H. J.), letter from, i the. Barisal tears ee 101
Rampal, the Ruins and Antiquities of . abe oe 167
Rawal Pindi, find of Treasure Trove coins in Ss 201
Ray, (Upendrachandra), elected an Ordinary Mota hier i 191
Rhodia Newera ... ae 176
Riynchota, Indian, notes on gaa) 20 LOS
Rivett-Carnac, (J. H.), elected Massie of Coins Gewmnbias eae 94
- . elected Member of History and Archeolo-
gical Committee a, sss 95
Rodgers, (C. J.), note on miscellaneous coins me ase 3
re elected Member of Coin Committee it, 94
note on coins collected during his last tour 152
Rohtak, find of coins in 180
Roy, (Kiranchandra), elected an Csdinasy Wes aes 163
», (Kumar Denendro Narayan), elected an Ordinary Member 151
» (Peary Mohun), elected an Ordinary Member Ss 163
Royal Geographical Sasicins notice of papers published by the... 49
Sanskrit Manuscripts, notice of ue ii iy 44,
ie works, notice of ... ve 51
Sarkar, (Hon. Dr. Mahendralal), atid Member os Council ... 72
Pa + is elected Member of Library
Committee 94
° % 53 elected Member of raisliciae
Committee ; ab.
_ lay 2 elected Member of Pivaieal
Science Committee 95
Sarun, finds of Treasure Trove coins in .. sisi 179, 201
Sayyid Ahmad, (Sir), elected Member of Philological Re ae 94
Sclater, (W. L.), elected an Ordinary Member a a 73
aa xs elected Member of Library Committee Sos 94
2 3 elected Member of Natural History Committee 95
o ata exhiLited specimens of Mamalia of the genus
; Paradoxurus 124
. as exhibited the head rl ete ee a stag foie
Darjeeling a3 141
Scully, (Dr. J.), elected member of Soancal os 72
- tate elected member of Library Committee 94.
» .., 9 elected member of Natural History g@epmikes 95
246 Index.
Page
Secretaries, election of nad ae ots e 72
Secretary exhibits an old oil portrait sent by the Hon. Mr.
Quinton for identification 1 ea ba 124
Secretaries office, report on... on ane 19
Semetic works, notice of 50
Senart, (Prof. E.), letter from, aeonathe the atudovtite of she
twelfth edict of Asoka ... se vee Aa 95
Shah Jahan III, notice on a rupee of ... Ses ste 4,
» Shuja, (son of Shah Jahan), notice on a rupee of oak 3
Shahpur, finds of Treasure Trove coins in ay, 96, 126, 204
Shastri, (Haraprasad), elected member of Council ., is 72
5 5 elected member of Philological
Committee oe 94
Shopland, (EH. R.), withdrawal of ty 192
Shyamaldas, (Kaviraj), elected member of History add estes
logical Committee ee 94,
‘ F on the Mother of Jehangir ... 184
ir ui note on the Arthiwa Sissy ckoriphion ab.
Sialkot, finds of Treasure Trove coins in S ...140, 189
Sikkim and adjacent parts of Tibet &c., Tibetan map of 224
Silk producing moths, Indian, note of the more important species 174
Simla, list of the Ferns of ... eee 5a4 156
Simson, (A.), elected member of Gidieat ae 72,
Simpson, (Dr. W. J.}, elected member of Physical Scene Com-
mittee 5a ae 95
Sing, (Sirdar Gurdyal), udees from fhe list of merabers as a
defaulter ... ds eh ane ee 73
Siva Purana, translation of ... be i seemed
Smith, (V. A.), elected member of Coins Committee su 94:
vs x preparing a paper on Gupta coins .. ‘se 97
Societies with which publications are exchanged .., 24
Spring, (F. J. E.), withdrawal of we ite 2
Survey of India, operations of, during 1887 ae ae 44:
Swinhoe, (Col. C.), elected member of Natural History Com-
mittee i ea cee oe 95
Tawney, (C. H.), elected buenas of Council i2
elected member of Philological Committee 94
iibanlo, (Capt. R. C.), elected member of History and Archeolo-
gical Committee ee iv oF 0b 95
Theophila Huttons * an 175
Thibaut, (Dr. G.), elected ieee of philological Goan ittes owe 94
Index. 24:7
? Page
Thibaut (Dr. G.), to edit Bhattotpala’s commentary on Varaha
Mihira’s Brihat Samhita for the Bibliotheca
Indica .. nae os 95
Tibet, charmed horn used by the Tantr ne of ue eae 73
Tibetan literature, notice of works to be undertaken in Al
» MSS. of Bodhipathapradipa 224
» Map of Sikkim and adjacent parts of Tibet. ab.
Tibeto-Burman works, notice of sae nas e 52
Toker, (Col. A. C.), elected member of Philological Guamtttes 94
Tornado at Dacca, account of 142
Tornadoes, prizes for best Essays on 174
os and Hailstorms in the Doab 207
Treasurer, election of soe sor 72
Tufnell, (Capt. R. H. C.), SC thdraaal of 192
Vayu Purana, translation of iis soe De 178
Vernacular literature, notice of 03
Vertebrata, notice of papers on see ss se 63
Vice-Presidents, election of vat
Vishnu Purana, translation of she 178
Waldie, (D.), elected member of Council ove 72
- , elected member of Physical Science Committee .., 95
Wardah, find of Treasure Trove coins in 202
Warden, (Dr, C. H. T.), on the nature of the ie ° principle of
Aroidese 116
Waterhouse, (Lt. Col. J.), eehinied views of Jaunpur and ptiie®
specimens of helogravure by the
photo-etching process... site 2
x i elected President oe 50 (a)
* ee address of, as President ., Ve
s e Memorandum regarding ine Barisél
Guns sis ae 102
Webb, (W. T.), withdrawal of Ris ane 2
Weevils, Wheat and Rice, specimens of, eeinited = 153
Wilson, (Dr. H. H.), lst of the translations of he Pavinds
made by ie 142
Withdrawal of members ... 2. fo, 0a. 12 3 140, 152, 192, 224
Wood-Mason, (J.), on some objects from a Neolithic settlement
recently discovered at Ranchi 3
ie » elected Vice-President : 71
a » elected Natural History Secretary 72
“ » goes on a cruise in the “ Investigator”’ as
Naturalist for some deep sea dredging ... 124
Yasovarman, note on coins of
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LIST OF MEMBERS
OF THE
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL.
pr THE 31ST PECEMBER 1887,
COUNCIL AND OFFICERS FOR 1887.
PRESIDENT.
KE. F. T, Atkinson, Esq., B. A., C. S.
V 1cE- PRESIDENTS.
Raja Rajendralala Mitra, C.I.E., D.L.
Lt.-Col. J. Waterhouse, B.S. C.
J. Wood-Mason, Esq.
SECRETARIES AND TREASURER.
J. Wood-Mason, Esq.
Dr. A. F. R. Hoernle.
H. M. Percival, Esq., M. A.
A. Pedler, Esq., F.C. S.
OrHer Members or Covuncit.
D. Waldie, Esq., F. C. S.
C. H. Tawney, Esq., M. A.
Babu Pratapehandra Ghosha, B. A.
Hon: Dr, Mahendralal Sarkar, C. I. E.
K. Gay, Esq., M. A.
Pandit Mahamahopadhydya Maheschandra Nydyaratna, OC. I, E.
H. Beveridge, Esq., C. S.
A. Simson, Esq.
Nawab Abdul Latif Bahadur, C. I, E.
W. King, Esq., B. A., D. Se.
LIstT OF ORDINARY MEMBERS.
R. = Resident. N.R.= Non-Resident. A.= Absent. N.S. = Non-Subscribing,
lL. M. = Life Member. F. M. = Foreign Member.
N. B.—Members who have changed their residence since the list was drawn
up are requested to give intimation of such a change to the Secretaries, in order
that the necessary alteration may be made in the subsequent edition. THrrors or
omissions in the following list should also be communicated to the Secretaries.
Members who are about to leave India and do not intend to return are parti-
cularly requested to notify to the Secretaries whether it is their desire to continue
members of the Society; otherwise, in accordance with Rule 40 of the Bye-Laws,
their names will be removed from the list. at the expiration of three years from the
time of their leaving India,
Date of Election.
1860 Dec.’ 5.
1885 Mar. 4.
1860 July 4.
| Abdul-Latif, c. 1. £., Nawab Bahadur. Calcutta.
Abdur Rahman, A.F.M., Barrister-at-Law. Calcutta.
Ahmad Khan, Bahadur, Hon. Sayyid, k. c. s. 1.
; Aligarh.
.| Ashan-ullah, Nawab. Dacca.
Aitchison, J. HE. T., M. D., c. 1. B., Secretary to the
Surgeon-General, H. M.’s Forces, Bengal. Hurope.
1872 April 3.
1860 April 4.
1884 Mar. 5. Ali, Sir Ali Kadar Syud Hassan, kK. c. 1. £., Baha-
dur. Murshedabad.
1874 June 3. Amir Ali, ¢. 1. £., Syud, Barrister-at-Law. Cal-
cutta.
1865 Jan. 11. Anderson, John, M. D., F. R. S., F. L. 8 Superinten-
dent, Indian Museum. LHurope.
1884 Sept. 3. Anderson, J. A. Calcutta.
1887 June l. Apjohn, J. H., m.1.c.5., P. W. Dept. Calcutta.
1887 May 4. | Atkinson, Rev. Augustus W., m. a., Principal, La
Martiniere. Calcutta.
1871 Sept. 6. Atkinson, Edwin Felix Thomas, B. a., c. 8., Acct.-
General, Bengal. Calcutta.
1869 Feb. 3. Attar Singh Bahadur, Sirdar, c. 1. E., M. U. F., Chief
of Bhadour. Ludiana.
1870 Feb. 2. Baden-Powell, Baden Henry, oc. s., c. 1. B., Offg.
Judge, Chief Court of the Panjab. Lahore.
1862 Feb. 5. Baisak, Gaurdas. Calcutta.
1865 Nov. 7. Ball, Valentine, M. A., F. R. 8., F.G. 8. Hurope.
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Date of Election.
1862 Aug. 1.| RB.
1869 Dec. 1.
1877 Jan. 17:
- 18285 Nov.
1885 Aug.
1881 Aug.
1886 Jan.
1887 Aug.
1886 June
1873 Feb.
1864 Sept. 7.
1878 Sept.25.
1862 Oct. 8.
1876 Nov.15.
1878 Oct.
1879 Mar.
1884 Jan.
1884 Feb.
1885 Jan.
1885 Mar.
1886 Aug.
1857 Mar.
1859 Aug.
1879 Aug.28.
1885 Mar. 4.
1880 Nov. 3.
1876 Nov.15.
1868 Jan. 15.
1876 May 4.
1860 Mar. 7.
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Barclay, Arthur, M. B., Surgeon Major. Sec. to Sur-
geon General and Sanitary Commissioner with
the Govt. of India. Calcutta.
Barker, R. A., M. p., Civil Surgeon. Serampore.
Barman, Kishor Kumar Radha Dev, Juvraj of Hill
Tipperah. Zipperah.
Barman, Damudar Das. Calcutta.
Barnett, John, Bengal Pilot Service. Calcutta.
Barstow, Henry Clements, c. s., Magistrate and
Collector. Cawnpore.
Barnes, Frederick Carnac. Calcutta.
Basu, Haricharan. Odalcutta.
.| Baumgarten, Casper Wilhelm. Batavia.
Bayne, R. R., M. R. 1. B. A. Chief Engineer’s Office,
H. I. Railway. Hurope.
.| Beames, John, B. c. s., Commissioner, Bhaugulpur
Division. Bhaugulpur.
.| Beighton, T. D., c. s., Offg. Judge. Ducca.
Bernard, Sir Charles Edward, Kk. ¢. 8. L, ¢. S.,
Hurope.
Beveridge, Henry, c. s,, District and Sessions
Judge. Alipur.
Bhakta, Krishna Gopal. Calcutta.
.| Biddulph, Lt.-Col. J., B. s.c. Deol.
.| Bidie, G., Brigade-Surgeon, M. B., F. L. S., 0. I. E:,
Supdt., Govt. Central Museum. Madras.
.| Bigg-Wither, Major A. C., B. 4., 4.1.0. EB. Quetta.
.| Bignold, T. F., c. s., Dist. and Sessions Judge.
Sooree.
N.R. |Bilgrami, Syud Ali, B. a., A. B. 3. M., Fs G8!
N.R.
Hyderabad.
Bingham, Capt. Charles Thomas, B. s. ¢., Deputy
Conservator of Forests. Burmah.
.| Blanford, H. F., a. 8. 8. M., F. R. S., F.G. 8. Meteoro-
logical Reporter, Govt. of India. Hngland.
-| Blanford, W..T.4. Aj. 8.8, M52) 8. 8.5, 8. G. 8.38 Gases
F.Z. 8. London.
Blyth, W. D., M. A., LL. D., c. 8., Inspector General
of Registration. Calcatia.
.| Bolton, C. W.,c.s., Magte.and Collector. Durbhanga.
Bose, Pramatha Nath, B. sc., -F. G.s., Geological
Survey of India. Raipur, C. P.
Bowie, Major M. M. Lurope. [ Bankipur.
.| Boxwell, John, c. s., Offg. Commr., Patna Divn.
.| Bradshaw, Deputy Surgeon-General A. F., a. m. pv.
Rawal Pindi.
Brandis, Sir Dietrich, Kk. 0.1. B., 0.1. E., PH. D., F. L. 8.,
F.R.S. Hurope.
Date of Election,
1887 May 4.
1879 April 2.
1880 Mar. 38.
1881 Feb. 2.
1876 Nov.15.
1885 April 1.
1881 Mar. 2.
1880 May 5.
1880 Jan. 7.
1861 Mar. 1.
1880 Nov. 3.
1886 April 7.
1885 Feb. 4.
1885 April 1.
1877 Aug.30.
1880 Aug.26.
1881 May 4.
1884 April 2.
1886 Aug.26.
1874 Nov. 4.
1884 Aug. 6.
1876 Mar. 1.
1887 Aug.25.
1877 June 6.
1874 Mar. 4.
1873 Aug. 6.
1873 Dec. 3.
1877 June 6.
1865 June 7.
1879 April 7.
1869 April 7.
1885 May 6.
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She
pe eee
F.M.
N.R.
.| Crombie, Alexander, m. p., Civil Surgeon.
.| Das, Raja Jaykrishna, Bahadur, ¢. s. 1.
.| Das, Ram Saran, mM. A., Secy., Oudh Commercial
Bural, Nobinchand, Solicitor. Calcutta.
Calcutta, The Rt. Rev. the Lord Bishop of. Calcutta.
.| Carlleyle, A. C., Archeological Survey of India.
Allahabad.
.| Carter, Philip John, Deputy Conservator of Forests.
Rangoon.
Cayley, Surgeon-Major H. urope.
.| Chambers, J. W. Narainganj.
Channing, Francis Chorley, B. c. 8s. Hurope.
.| Chatterji, Tara Prasada, Deputy Magte. Maunbhum.
Chaudhuri, Govinda Kumar. Calcutta.
.| Chaudhuri, Haranchandra, Zamindar. Sherpur,
Mymensingh.
.| Chaudhuri, Khirod Chandra Rai. Deputy Inspector
of Schools, Sonthal Pergunnahs.
Nya Dumka.
Chaudhuri, Radhaballabha.
Sherpur, Mymensingh.
Chaudhuri, Rajat Suryakanta, Bahadur. Mymen-
singh.
Clark, H. Martyn, M. B. Amritsar.
Clarke, Major Henry Wilberforce, rR. =. Hurope.
Clerk, Lieut.-Colonel Malcolm G. Hwrope.
Cockburn, John, Asst. Sub-Depy. Opium Agent,
Karwi, Banda, N. W. P.
Cole, Major H. H., x. £. Mhow.
Condenhove, Count H., Attaché Austro-Hungarian
Legation. Oonstantinople.
Constable, Archibald, Resident Engineer and Per-
sonal Asst. to Chief Engineer, Oudh and Rohil-
kund Railway. Lucknow.
Cotes, H. C., Indian Museum. Calcutta.
.| Crawfurd, James, B. A. 0. 8., Barrister-at-Law, Offg.
District and Sessions Judge. Nuddea.
Criper, William Risdon, F. 6. §., F. I. ¢., A. B.S. M.
Kasipur.
Croft, The Hon. Sir A. W., K.c. 1. £., M. A., Director
of Public Instruction, Bengal. Calcutta.
Dacea.
Cunningham, David Douglas, Surgeon-Major.
Honorary Surgeon to the Viceroy. Hurope.
.| Dames, Mansel Longworth, c. s., Asst. Commis-
sioner.
Dera Ismail Khan.
.| Darbhanga, Sir Luchmessur Sing, kK. c. 1. B., Baha-
dur, Maharaja of. Darbhanga.
Bijnor.
Bank, Limited. Pyzabad, Oudh.
Day, Dr. Francis, F. L. s., F. 2.8. Hurope.
Dé, Kumar Baikuntanath. Balasore.
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Date of Election.
1885 Mar. 4.
1859 Oct. 6.
1887 Ocs. 6.
1862 May 7.
1877 July 4.
1886 June 2.
1887 Nov. 2. |
1879 Feb. 5.
1877 Aug.30.
1870 Mar.
1863 May
9
6
1874 Dec. 2.
1871 Dec. 2
1886 Jan. 6
1863 Jan. 15.
1876 Jan. 5.
1880 April 7.
1879 July 2.
1869 Sept. 1.
1886 April 7.
"1876 July 5.
1869 Sept. 1.
1880 April 7.
1873 Dec. 3.
1883 Aug. 1.
1859 Aug. 3.
1867 Dec. 4.
1883 Aug.30.
1871 May 3.
1869 Feb. 3.
1884 Dec. 3.
1886 Sept.30.
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.| Edinburgh, H, R. H. The Duke of.
.| Feistmantel, Ottokar, m. p.
.| Garga, Kumar Isvariprasaid, Zemindar.
.| Gastrell, Major-General James Hardley. Hwrope.
Deb, Kumar Nilkrishna, Bahadur. Calcutta.
.| Delmerick, J. G., Extra Assistant Commissioner.
Mussoorie.
Deva, Kumar Vinaya Khrishna, Bahadur. Calcutta.
Dhanapati Singh Dughar, Rai Bahadur. Azimganj.
Diler Jang, Nawab Syad Ashgar Ali, Khan Baha-
dur, ©. s.1. Calcutta.
Deyle, Patrick, c. B., F.G.S.,M. R.A. 8. Calcutta.
Driver, Walter Henry Parker. Ranchi, Lohardugga.
Duthie, J. F., Director, Government Botanical
Survey, Northern India. Saharanpur.
Dutt, Kedarnath, Depy. Collector. Calcutta.
Hurope.
Edgar, John Ware, ¢.8.1.,¢.8. Secretary, Govern-
ment of Bengal. Calcutta.
Egerton, The Hon. Sir Robert Eyles, K. c. 8.1,
C.1. E., ¢. 8. Hurope.
Eliot, J., m. a., Meteorological Reporter to the Govt.
of Bengal. Calcutta.
Elson, Samuel R. Bengal Pilot Service. Calcutta.
.| Fedden, Francis, Deputy Superintendent, Geological
Survey of India. Vizagapatam.
Europe.
Fiddian, W., M. A., 0. 8., Hwrope.
Finucane, M., c. s., Director of Agriculture, Bengal.
Calcutta.
Fisher, John Hadden, ¢. s. Hurope.
Fleet, John Faithfull, co. 1. £., ¢. 8. Hurope.
Foulkes, The Rev. Thos. Fr. L. s., M.B. A. 8., F. B. G. 8.,
Chaplain. Salem, Madras Presy.
Fryer, Colonel G. H., u.s.c. Hurope.
.| Gajapati, Ananda Ram, x. ¢. 1. £., Raja of Viziana-
gram. Vizianagram.
Gamble, J. S., uw. a., Conservator of Forests, North-
ern Circle, Madras. Hurope.
Maisadal.
Gay, E., M. A, F. RB. A. s., Comptroller-General.
Calcutta.
Ghose, Manmohan. Calcutta.
Ghosha, Kaliprasanna. Calcutta.
Ghosha, Pratapchandra, B. a. Calcutta.
.| Giles, George M., mM. B., Fr. R. 0. S., Surgeon, Natural-
ist, S. S. “Investigator.” Sandoway.
.| Gimlette, George Hart Desmond, Surgeon, Bengal
Vil
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Date of Election.
1861 Feb.
1882 May
1863 Nov.
1879 Jan.
1877 Nov. 7.
1876 Nov.15.
1885 Dec. 2.
1861 Sept. 4.
1861 Feb. 6.
1886 Mar. 3.
1880 Feb. 4.
1883 June 6.
1867 July 3.
iss dan. 3.
1879 Mar. 5.
1877 Sep. 27.
1875 Mar. 3.
1883 May 2.
1872 Dec. 5.
1878 Mar. 6.
1886 June 2.
1884 Mar. 5.
1873 Jan. 2.
1863 Jan. 15.
1878 Sep. 20.
1867 Aug. 7.
1866 Jan. 17.
1870 Jan. 5.
1884 May 2.
D.
3.
1881 Mar. 2.
4
8
Medical Service, M. D., M. CH., M. BR. C. S., L. 8. A,
| Goona Political Agency. Central India.
N.S. | Godwin-Austen, Lieut.-Colonel H. H., F. 8. 58., F. Z. 8.,
F.R.G. 8S. Hurope.
R. | Gol&ém Sarwar, Maulavi. Calcutta.
R. | Gosdin, Hem Chunder. Calcutta.
¥.M.| Gowan, Major-General J. Y. Hurope.
R. | Gowan, Major W. EH. Calcutta.
L.M.| Grant, Alexander, M.1.¢c. &. Hurope.
N.R.| Grierson, George Abraham, 0. s. Gya.
N.R.| Griesbach, C. L., c. 1. E., F. G. 8., Deputy Superin-
tendent Geological Survey of India.
N.R.| Griffin, Sir Lepel Henry, c. s., kK. c.s.1., Agent
Governor General, Central India. Indore.
N.R.| Growse, Frederick Salmon, m. A., ¢. s., ¢. 1. B., Mag-
istrate and Collector. Fatehgarh, N.-W. P.
N.R.| Gupta Ashootosh, c. s., Assistant Magistrate and
Collector. Munshigunge, Dacca.
N.R.| Gupta, Beharilal, c.s. Furreedpore.
N.R.| Gurdyal Singh, Sirdar, c. s., Asst. Commissioner,
Dera Ghana Khan, Panjab.
N.R.| Hacket, Charles Augustus, Deputy Superintendent
Geol, Survey of India. Camp Abu, Rajputana.
N.R.| Harding, Francis Henry, B. A., 0.8. Chittagong.
A. | Harraden, 8. Hurope.
R. | Hart, J., Attorney-at-Law. Calcutta.
N.R.| Hendley, Surgeon Major Thomas Holbein. Jeypore.
N.R.| Hill, Samuel, Alexander, B. sc., A. B.S. M., F.C. 8.,
Prof. of Physical Science, Muir College and
Meteor. Reporter to Govt., N.-W. P. and Oudh.
Allahabad.
R. | Hoernle, Rev. A. F. R., pu. v., Principal of the
Calcutta Madrasah. Calcutta.
N.R.| Hoey, W., c.s. Htawah.
R. | Hogg, Alexander. Calcutta.
N.R.| Hooper, John, c. s., Settlement Officer. Bastz,
NeW Bi
L.M.| Houstoun, G. L., Fr. a. s. Hurope.
N.R.| Howell, Mortimer Sloper, co. s. Moradabad,
N.-W. P.
N.R.| Hughes, G., c. s.. Deputy Commissioner. Jhang.
N.R.| Hughes, T. W. H., 4. 8. 8. M., F. G. s., Superinten-
dent Geol. Survey of India. Kutni, H. I. RB.
A. | Hughes, Major W. G., M.s.c. Hurope.
N.R.| Hume, Allan Octavian, c. B., c. s. Allahabad.
N.R.
Hussein, Syud, s. a., Secy. to Nizam of Hydera-
bad’s Council.
vill
Date of Election.
1872 Dec. 4. | F.M.| Ibbetson, Denzil Charles Jelf, c. s., Deputy Com-
missioner. Hurope. —
1866 Mar. 7.|N.R.| Irvine, William, c. s., Magistrate and Collector. |
Ghazipur.
1884 May 2.|N.R.| Iskander Ali Mirza, Prince. Murshedabad.
1880 Dec. 1.| A. | Jackson, William Grierson, B. c. 8s. Hwurope.
1869 Aug. 4.| R. | Jahdn QadrMuhammad Wahid Ali, Bahadur, Prince.
Garden Reach, Calcutta.
1876 July. 5.| A. | Jarrad, Lieut. F. W., 8. N., F. BR. A. S., Marine Sur-
vey Dept. Hurope.
1879 Mar. 5.| R. | Jarrett, Lt.-Col. H.S., B. 5. ¢., Secy. to the Board
of Examiners. Calcutta.
1881 Feb. 2.| A. | Jenkins, Major Thomas Morris, m. 8. c., Deputy
Commissioner. Hwrope.
1862 Mar. 5.| A. | Johnstone, Colonel James William Hope. Hurope.
1867 Dec. 4.| A. | Johnstone, Col. Sir James, K.C.8.1.,0.8.1. Hurope. .
1873 Dec. 3.|N.R.| Johore, H. H. the Maharaja of, x. c. s.1. New
Johore, Singapore.
1884 Aug. 6.| R. | Jones, H, J., Geol. Survey of India. Calcutta.
1875 Nov. 3.) N.R.| Jones, 8. S., B.A. 6. 8. Murshedabad.
1882 Mar. 1. | N.R.| Kennedy, Pringle, mM. a. Mozufferpur.
1874 Dec. 2. |N.R.| Khuda Baksh, Khan Bahadur, Maulavi. Bankipur.
1884 Nov. 5.| A. | Kitts, Eustace John, c.s. Huwrope.
1867 Dec. 4.| R. | King, G. mu. B., F. L. s.. Supdt., Royal Botanic
Garden. Szbpur.
1881 Mar. 2. | N.R.| King, Lucas White, B. a., LL. B.,¢.8., Assistant Agent
to the Governor General, Central India. Indore.
1862 Jan.15.| R. | King, W., 3B. a., D. sc., Director, Geol. Survey of
India. Calcutta.
1880 Dec. 1.| A. | Kirton, Brigade Surgeon William Henry, F. L. 8.,
Medical Store-Keeper. LHurope.
1880 Jan. 7.| R. | Kisch, H. M., m.a., c.s. Post Master General,
Bengal. Calcutta.
1887 May 4. | L.M.| Lanman, Charles R. Corresponding Secretary of the
American Oriental Society, Professor of Sanskrit
in Harvard College. Cambridge, Mass. U. 8,
America.
1877 Sep.27. | N.R.| La Touche, James John Digges, B. A., 0. 8., Menbu,
Upper Burma.
1881 Feb, 2.| R. | Laughlin, Robert Campbell, Asst. Supdt., Govt.
Telegraph Department. Calcutta.
1881 Mar. 2.|N.R.| Lee, J. Bridges, M..A., F. G. S, F.C. 8. F. Z. 8,
Barrister-at-Law. Lahore.
1880 July 7.| A. | Lewis, Rev. Arthur, 8. A., Vice-Principal, St. John’s
| | Divinity School. Hurope.
1X
Date of Election,
1873 Feb. 5.
1886 Sep. 30.
1869 July 7.
1870 April 7.
1884 Dec. 3.
1868 Dec. 2.
1886 June 2.
1880 June 2.
1884 Mar. 5.
1879 Feb. 5.
1848 April 5.
1873 Dec. 3.
1880 May 5.
1881 July 6.
1886 Jan. 6.
1882 Aug. 2.
1867 April 3.
1878 April 3.
1869 Sept. 1.
1880 May 5.
1869 July 7.
1886 Aug.26.
1860 Mar. 7.
1877 Mar. 7.
1886 Mar. 3.
1884 Nov. 5.
1871 Sept. 6.
1884 Sept. 3.
1870 July 6
.| Lyall, Charles James, B. A., ©. S.
.| Markham, Alexander Macaulay, oc. 8., F. R. G. 8.,
.| Miles, Lieut.-Colonel 8. B.,
Lewis, Timothy Richards, mM. B., Special Asst. to the
Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of
India. Hurope.
Luson, Hewling, c. s., Assistant Magistrate. Shaha-
bad.
Shillong.
Lyman, B. Smith. Philadelphia, Pa., U. S., America.
McCabe, R. B., c. s., Deputy Commissioner, Naga
Hills. Assam.
Macauliffe, Michael, B. A., c. 8., Judicial Assistant
Commissioner. Saeals
Macdonald, A., Editor, eanabalruans
MacDonald, James, c. EB. Scotland.
Calcutta.
Macdonnell, A. Bi B. A., 0. S., Secy., Govt. of India,
Home Dept. Calcutta.
Macgregor, Major C, R., F. R. G.8., 44th N. I. Hurope.
.| Maclagan, General Robert, 8. E., F. R. 8. H., F. BR. G. 8.
Hurope.
MacLeod, Surgeon-Major Kenneth, M.p. Calcutta.
.| MacLeod, Roderick Henry, B. o. s., Asst. Magte.
Kasia, Gorakpur, N.-W. P.
Mahomed Firukh Shah, Prince. Oalcutta.
.|Mahomed Latif Khan, Sayyid, Khan Bahadur.
Ferozpur, Panjab.
Mahomed Yusoof, Hon. Maulavi. Calcutta.
Mainwaring, Major-General George Byres, s. ¢.
Serampur.
Mallet, F. R., F. G. 8., F.C. S., Superintendent,
Geological Survey of India, Hurope.
Mallik, Yadulal. Calcutta.
.| Mandlik, The Hon. Rao Sahib Visvanath Narayana,
c. 8.1. Bombay.
ae,
Collector. Banda.
.| Meade, Capt. Malcolm John, s. c., Assistant Agent,
Governor-General. Rajputana.
Medlicott, H. B., M.A, FR. 8S. FG. 8. Hngland.
Medlycott, Rev. Adolphus idee PH. D., Military
Chaplain. Ferozepur, Panjab.
Mehta, Roostumjee Dhunjeebhoy. Calcutta.
Middlemiss, C.8., a.B., Assistant Superintendent,
Geological Survey of India. Chakrata, N.-W. P.
8. ¢., Political Agent,
Udaipur.
Miles, William Harry. Calcutta.
Miller, A. B., 8. a., Barrister-at-Law,
Official As-
signce. Calcutta. ;
Date of Election.
1874 May 6.| NR.
1875 Aug. 4.
1856 Mar. 5.
A.
R.
1876 Dee. 6. | F.M.
1886 May 5.|N.R.|
1883 Dec. 12.
1881 May 4.
1884 April 2.
1881 Dec. 7.
1864 Nov. 2.
1879 May 7.
1867 Mar. 6.
1885 July 1. |
1886 May 5.
1887 May 4.
1885 June 3.
1887 June l.
1876 May 4.
1881 Nov. 2.
1887 April 6.
1869 July 7.
1885 Feb. 4.
1879 Aug.28.
1883 Dec. 1.
N.R.
Pop» PRE ge
N.R
N.R
R.
R
R
N.R
R
N.R.
N.R.
1883 Aug.30.| N.R.
1885 Feb. 4.
1887 July 6.
1880 Aug. 4.
N.R.
R.
L.M.
1880 Jan. 7.) N.R.
.; Molloy, Major Edward, 5th Goorkhas.
.| Monteath, J. J., M. D., Surgeon Major.
.+ Mui, J. W., M.A, C.S.
Minchin, F. J. V. Aska, Ganjam.
Minchin, Colonel, C. C. Hurope.
Mitra, Raja Rajendralala, tu. D., c. 4.8. Calcutta.
Mockler, Lt.-Col. E., British Consul. Muscat, Per-
sian Gulf. :
Molesworth, Capt. H. H., Commandant, Police Levy,
Dibrugarh.
Moller, Otto Chrestien. Tukvar, Darjeeling.
Abbottabad,
Hazara, Panjab.
Mondy, Edmund F., Civil Engineering Coll. Sibpur.
Kohima,
Naga Hills.
Mirzapore.
Mukerjea, Bhudeva, 0.1.8. Oalcutta.
Mukerjea, Raja, The Hon. Pearimchan, ¢. 8. I., M. A.
Utiarpara.
Mukerjea, Nilmani,
Calcutta.
Mukhopadhyaya, Asutosh, M. A., F. R. A. 8., F. BR. 8. E.
Bhowanipur, Calcutta.
Munro, Thomas R,, Port Commissioner’s Depart-
ment. Calcutta.
Professor, Sanskrit College.
.| Naemwoollah, Maulavi, Depy. Magte. Bulandshahr.
.| Narain, Rao Govind Rao.
Allahabad.
Nash, A. M., mu. 4., Inspector of Huropean Schools,
Bengal. Calcutta.
Nicéville, L. de., Fr. p. 8. Calcutta.
Noetling, Fritz. Ph. D. Paleontologist to the Geo-
logical Survey of India. Calcutta.
.| Nursing Rao, A. V. Vizagapatam.
Nydyaratna, Pandit Mahamahopadhyaya Mahes-
chandra. Calcutta.
Oldham, Brigade-Surgeon C. F., ¥. x. a. 8. Dhar-
amsalla.
Oldham, R.D., 4.R.8.M., F. G. s., Deputy Super-
intendent, Geol. Sur. of India. Saharanpur.
Oliver, Edw. Emmerson, m. 1. 6. B., Under-Secy. to
Govt. Panjab, P. W. D. Lahore.
Oliver, James William, Forest Dept. Tharrawaddy,
Burmah.
Oung, Moung Hla, Financial Department, Govern-
ment of India. Calcutta.
Pandia, Pandit Mohanlall Vishnulall, r.7.s., Member
and Secy., Royal Council of Meywar. Udaipur.
Pargiter, Frederick H., B. A., ¢. 8. Jessore,
xi
Date of Election.
1880 Jan.
1862 May
7
7
1871 Dec. 6.
1860 Feb. 1.
1873 Aug. 6
2
6
1864 Mar. 2.
1865 Sept. 6.
1881 Aug.25.
1877 Aug, 1.
1868 May 6.
1887 Mar. 2.
1881 Feb. 2.
1880 April 7.
1887 May 4.
1880 Aug. 4.
1884 Mar. 5.
1860 Jan. 3.
1878 Sep.25.
1865 Feb. 1.
1881 Aug.30.
1885 Mar. 4.
1880 Sep.30.
i887 June 1.
1877 May 2.
1872 Dec. 4.
1867 April 3.
1885 Mar. 4.
1885 Feb. 4.
1870 May 4.
1884 April 2.
1874 July 1.
1886 Mar. 3.
1885 April 1.
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.| Peters, C. T., m. B., Surgeon-Major.
.| Peterson, F. W., F. ©. 8s.
.| Rai, Bipina Chandra, B. tL.
.| Risley, H. H., B. A,, c. 8.
.| Rivett-Carnac, John Henry, ©. 8., ¢. 1. E., F. 8. A,
.| Roy, Nanda Kumar.
Parry, J. W., ©. £., ASSOC. M. I. c. E., Asst. Hein-
neer. LHurope.
.| Partridge, Surgeon-Major Samuel Bowen, mM. D.
Europe.
.| Peal, S. E, Sidsagar, Assam.
.| Pearse, General Geo. Godfrey, ¢. B., RB. H. A., Godfrey
House. Cheltenham, England.
Pedler, Alexander, F. ¢. 8., Professor of Chemistry,
Presidency College. Calcutta.
Pellew, Fleetwood Hugo, o.s. Hurope.
.| Peppé, T. F. Shahabad.
Percival, Hugh Melvile, m. a., Professor, Presi-
dency College. Calcutta.
Bombay.
Bombay.
Pope, T. A. Assistant Superintendent, Survey of
India Department. Calcutta.
Prideaux, Lieut.-Colonel William Francis, B. s. c.
Calcutta.
Rungpore.
Ray, Prasannakumar, D. Sc., (Lond. and Edin )
Professor, Presidency College, Registrar, Calcutta
University. Calcutta.
Reynolds, Herbert William Ward, c. s.
Darjeeling.
LHurope.
Opium Agent. Ghazipur.
Robertson, Rev. J. Hurope.
Robinson, 8. H. Hurope.
Giridht.
Rustomjee, H. M. Calcutta.
Sage, H. M., Asst. Engineer, P. W.D. Hurope.
Sandberg, Rev. Graham, B. A., Barrister-at-Law,
Inner Temple, Junior Chaplain, Bengal Establish-
ment. Calcutta.
.|Sandford, W. Somastipur, Tirhoot.
Sarasvati, Prannath, Pandit, m. Bho-
wanipur.
Sarkar, The Hon. Dr. Mahendralal, c.1.5. Calcutta.
Sarvadhikari, Rajakumar. Calcutta.
Sdstri, Haraprasad, mu. a. Calcutta.
Schlich, Dr. W. Lwrope.
Scotland, John Parry, c. u., Hx. Engineer. Hngland.
Seully, Dr. John. HA. M.’s Mint, Calcutta.
Sen, Hiralal, Excise Department. Mozgufferpur.
A., B, L.
‘| Sen, Yadunéth, Khurda, Puri.
Date of Election.
1885 April 1.
1879 Jan. 8.
1879 May 7.
1881 Mar. 2.
1882 May 3.
1878 April 3.
1887 April 6.
1884 Sep. 3.
1853 Dec. 7.
1885 April 1.
1882 June 7.
1878 Oct. 4.
1882 Ang. 2.
1880 June 2.
1859 Aug. 3.
1872 Aug. 5.
1885 Nov. 4:
1874 June 3.
1887 April 6.
1872 July 3.
1879 Oct. 2.
1882 May 3.
1876 Aug. 2.
1880 Nov. 3.
1884 Mar. 5.
1864 Aug.11.
1880 Nov. 3.
1868 June 3.
1865 Sept. 6.
1874 Mar. 4.
X11
N.R.
N.R.
.| Sewell, R., M. c. 8.
.| Singh, Maharaja Isvariprashad, o. s. 1.
Sen, Narendranath. Calcutta.
Madras.
Sheridan, C. J., ¢. p. Hurope.
R.| Shopland, HE. R., Indian Marine, Port Officer. Akyab.
.| Shyamaldass, Mahamahopadhyaya Kaviraj, Private
Secy. to H. H. the Maharana of Udaipur. Udarpur.
Simson, A. Calcutta.
Simpson, Dr. W. J., Health Officer to the Municipal
Corporation. Calcutta.
Singh, Kumar Indrachandra, of Paikparah. Cal-
cutta.
Benares.
Singh, Kumar Saratchunder. Calcutta.
.| Singh, Maharaja Kumar Harendra Kishore. Bettiah.
.| Singh, Raja Lachman.
Singh, Narain, Raji Ram. Khyrah, Monghyr.
.| Singh, Thikur Garuradhawaya Prasad, Raja of
Bulandshahr.
Beswan, Beswan Fort. Aligarh.
Sinha, Baldichénd. Calcutta.
R.| Skrefsrud, Rev. L. O., Indian Home Mission to the
Santhals. Rampur Hat.
Smith, N. F. F. England.
Smith, Vincent Arthur, ¢. s., Settlement Officer.
Lingland.
Spring, F. J. H., t. c. =., Mem. Inst. c. 5., Under
Sec., Govt. of Bengal, P. W. Department. Cal-
cutta.
Stephen, Carr, B. u., Judl. Asst. Commr. Jullun-
dur Cantonnent.
Sterndale, R. A., F. BR. G. §.,Asst. Commr. of Cur-
rency. Madras.
Stewart, H. EH. Sir Donald M., Bart., a. c. B., G. Cc.
S. 1. Hurope.
.| St. John, Lieut.-Col. Sir Oliver Beauchamp, RB. £.,
K. 0. 8. 1., Agent, Governor-General. Baroda.
.| Sturt, Lieut. Robert Ramsay Napier, B. s. ¢., Panjab
Frontier Force. Kohat.
.| Swinhoe, Lieut.-Col. C., B. s. o., Asst. Comy. Genl.
Poona.
Swinhoe, W., Attorney-at-Law. Calcutta.
Swynnerton, ‘Rev. Charles. England.
Tagore, The Hon. Maharaja Jotendra Mohun, «.¢.8.1.
Calcutta.
Tawney, C. H., m. A., Principal, Presidency College.
Calcutta.
Taylor, Commander A. D.,
Europe.
late Indian Navy.
XH
Date of Election.
1884 May 5.
1860 May 2.
1878 June 5.
1876 Feb. 2.
1875 June 2.
1886 Aug. 4.
‘1886 Jan. 6.
1847 June 2.
1883 June 6.
1871 April 5.
1861 June 5.
1872 July 3.
1880 Mar. 3.
1885 May 6.
1886 Sep. 30.
1865 Nov. 1.
1865 May 3.
6
1887 Oct.
—
1874 July
1876 Dec. 6.
1869 Sept. 1.
1878 Aug.29.
1880 Feb. 4.
1878 Mar. 6.
1870 Jan. 5.
1873 Aug. 6.
R.
N.R.
Taylor, W. C., Settlement Officer. Khurda, Orissa.
Temple, Sir R., Bart, kK. c¢. 8.1, ¢. 1. 8. Hurope.
Temple, Capt. R. C., 8s. ¢. Palace, Mandalay, Upper
Burma.
Tennant, Major-General James Francis, R. E., F.R. 8.,
c. 1. E., Mint Master. Hurope.
.| Thibaut, Dr. G., Principal, Sanskrit College.
Benares.
Thomas, Robert Edmond Skyring. Calcutta.
.| Thomson, Colonel, W. B., 8B. s.c. Kashmir.
Thuillier, Major-Genl. Sir Henry Edward Landor,
R.A, 0. 8:1, FR. 8. Hurope.
.| Toker, Lieut.-Col. Alliston Champion, B. Ss. ¢., C. B.,
Sec., Govt. of India, Military Dept. Calcutta.
.| Trefftz, Oscar. Hurope.
.| Tremlett, James Dyer, m. A, co. 8., Judge, Chief
Court. Lahore..
Trevor, Colonel William Spottiswoode, R. £.,
Hurope.
«| Patriell;.Capt..Re “His, C.., Meter C1,) 3. 2084, 'S0th
M.N.I. Madras.
Verdeau, Ivan. Calcutta.
.| Waddell, Dr. Laurence Austine, mM. B., Superinten-
dent of Vaccination. Darjeeling.
Waldie, David, Fr. c.s. Calcutta.
Waterhouse, Lt.-Col. James, B. 8. 0., Dy. Supdt.,
Survey of India. Calcutta.
Watson, Lieut. Hdward Yerbury, 5th Madras N. I.
Berhampore, Ganjam.
.| Watt, Dr. George, co. 1. £., Reporter on Economic
Products. Calcutta.
Webb, W. T., mu. a., Professor, Presidency College.
Calcutta.
.| Westland, Hon. James, c. s., Financial Member of
the Governor General’s Council. Calcutta.
Whittall, R., Forest Dept. Hurope.
Wilson, The Hon. Arthur. Calcutta.
Wilson, J., ¢. s., Deputy Commissioner. Shahpur,
Panjab.
Wood-Mason, James. Calcutta.
Woodthorpe, Lieut.-Col. Robert Gossctt, R. E., C. B.,
Deputy Supdt., Survey of India. Manipur.
PAPO LLLLILOwnm?
Xiv
SPECIAL HONORARY CENTENARY MEMBERS.
Date of Election.
1884 Jan. 15.
1884 Jan. 15.
1884 Jan. 15.
1884 Jan. 15.
1884 Jan. 15.
1884 Jan. 15.
1848 Feb. 2.
1853 April 6.
iene pale 6)
1860 Mar.
1860 Nov.
1860 Nov.
1868 Feb.
1868 Feb. |
1872 May
1872 June 5.
1875 Nov. 3.
1875 Nov. 3.
1876 April 5.
1876 April 5.
1879 June 4.
1879 June 4
1879 June 4.
1879 June 4.
1879 June 4.
1879 June 4.
1831 Dec.
1881 Dec.
1881 Dec.
1881 Dec.
1883 Feb.
1883 Feb.
1883 Feb.
gah ee ies a
SS See
James Prescott Joule, Esq., tu. D., F. R. 8. Manchester.
Dr. Ernst Haeckel, Professor in the University of Jena.
Charles Meldrum, Esq., mM. 4A., F. B.S. Mauritius.
A. H. Sayce, Esq., Professor of Comp. Philology. Oxford.
M. Emile Senart, Member of the Institute of France.
Paris.
Sir Monier Monier Williams, Knt., K. . I. B., G.I. B., M. A.,
D.C. L., LL. D., Boden Prof. of Sanskrit. Ovwford.
HONORARY MEMBERS.
Sir J. D. Hooker, x. '¢. 8. 1, 0. B., M. D., D.C. B.,; #. B. Sa
F.G.8. Kew:
Major-General H. C. Rawlinson, K. ¢. B., D. 0. L., F. RB. 8.
London.
B. H. Hodgson. Hurope.
Professor Max Miller. Ozford.
Dr. Aloys Sprenger. Heidelberg.
Dr. Albrecht Weber. Berlin.
Major-General Sir A. Cunningham, K. ¢. I. E., €. 8. 1,
C.1, BE. RB. E. Hurope.
Professor Bapu Deva Sastri. Benares.
Sir G. B. Airy, K.¢.B., M. A., D.C. L., LL. D., F. RB. 8. London.
Prot. 7. H) Huxley, 4.0. )., PH, D.; ¥ R. 8. Fo G08. FZ. Big
F.L. 8. London.
Dr. O. Bohtlingk. Letpzig.
Prof. J. O. Westwood. Oxford.
Col. H. Yule, zr. £., c. B. London.
Dr. Werner Siemens. Berlin.
Prof. H. B. Cowell, D. c. L. Cambridge.
Dr. A. Giinther, v. Pp. RB 8. London.
Dr. J. Janssen. Paris.
Prof. H. Milne-Edwards.
Prof. P. Regnaud. Lyons.
HK. Renan. Paris.
Professor Hermann L F. Helmholtz.
Dr. Rudolph v. Roth. Tiibingen.
Sir William Thomson, Knt., Lu. D., F. R. S., F. R. 8. EL
Glasgow.
Professor William Wright, tu. p. Cambridge.
W. T. Blandford, a. B..s. M., F. RB. 6., F.G. 8., F. B. @. 8;
Fr. Zz. 8. London.
Alfred Russell Wallace, Fr. L. s., F. RB. G. 8. Godalming.
Prof oe Dwight Whitney. Newhaven, Connecticut,
G.-8.
Paris.
Berlin.
i
XV
CORRESPONDING MEMBERS.
Date of Election.
1844 Oct. 2. | Macgowan, Dr. J. Hurope.
1856 July 2.| Kramer, A. von. Alexandria.
1856 ,, 2./| Porter, Rev. J. Belfast.
_ 1860 Feb. 1.| Baker, The Rev. H. HH. Malabar.
1861 July 3.| Gosche, Dr. R. Berlin.
1862 Mar. 3.| Murray, A., Esq. London.
1866 May 7. | Schlagintweit, Prof. EH. von. Berlin.
3. | Holmboe, Prof. Christiana.
1868 Feb.
ASSOCIATE MEMBERS.
1874 April 1. | Lafont, Rev. Fr. H., 8.3.,¢.1. 8. Calcutta.
1875 Dec. 1. | Bate, Rev. J. D. Allahabad.
1875 ,, 1.| Maulavi Abdul Hai, Madrasah. Calcutta.
1882 June 7.| Giles, Herbert, Esq. Hurope.
1883 Feb. 7.| Rodgers, C.J. Amritsar.
1884 Aug. 6.| Moore, F., Fr. B. 8., F. L. 8. London.
1885 Dec. 2.| Dr. A. Ftihrer. Lucknow.
1886 Dec. 1. | Babu Saratchandra Das, c. 1.8. Darjeeling.
LIST OF MEMBERS WHO HAVE BEEN ABSENT FROM
INDIA THREE YEARS AND UPWARDS.*
* Rule 40.—After the lapse of 3 years from the date of a member
leaving India, if no intimation of his wishes shall in the interval have
been received by the Society, his name shall be removed from the List
of Members.
The following members will be removed from the next member list
of the Society under the operation of the above Rule:
Sir R. Temple.
Brigade Surgeon W. H. Kirton.
Col. J. W. H. Johnstone.
Rev. J. Robertson.
F. H. Pellew, Esq., C. S.
Surgeon Major H. Cayley.
Surgeon Major T. R. Lewis.
XV1
LOSS OF MEMBERS DURING 1887.
By RETIREMENT.
Col. Sir E. B. Sladen.
Hon. H. Beverley, c. s.
K. M. Oates, Esq.
R. Gordon, Esq.
D. G. Barkley, Esq., c. 8.
Capt. T. Boileau, B. s. ¢.
Dr. K. G. Sirkar.
Lt.-Col. W. F. Badgley.
Major G. F. Marshall.
Hon. C. T. H. Crosthwaite, ¢. 8.
R. H. Wilson, Esq., c. s.
R. 8. Whiteway, Esq., ¢. 8.
Rangalala Mukerji.
A. Cadell, Esq., ¢. 8.
Kumar Debendra Mallik.
J. R. Napier, Esq.
By Dratu.
Ordinary Members.
Col. G. C. DePrée.
J. C. Douglas, Esq.
T. G. H. Moncrieffe, Esq.
Sir Ashley Eden, ¢. s.
Dr. Ram Das Sen.
Lt.-Col. T. C. Plowden.
Babu Girijtbhushan Mukerji.
Babu Rakhaldas Haldar.
Corresponding Members.
Dr. EK. Smith.
J. Tailor, Esq.
J. Neitner, Esq.
Dr. H. Frederick.
R. H. Barnes, Esq.
[APPENDIX. |
ABSTRACT STATEMENT
oF
RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS
ov THE
fsintic Society oF BENGAL
FOR
THE YEAR 1887.
xviii
STATEMENT:
Asiatic Society
To ESTABLISHMENT.
Salaries ies oe aye Rs. 3,899 6 6
Commission ssi oi ae a 379 7 0
4,278 13 6
To CONTINGENCIES.
Stationery i eae ans he 104 9 6
Lighting = 159 ae Sr 81 8 0
Building ade ea ay sire 2,489 10 O
Taxes exe bat cies ah 816 0 O
Postage ee “ae a fet 593.13 9
Freight ee nee sia oe bo 7. 60
Meetings ee pele ae ass 102 0 0
Miscellaneous ame + oe oat 122 5 6
4,325 5 9
To LIBRARY AND COLLECTIONS.
Books ... oe aR ues ee 1,840 15 5
Local Periodicals ... ae RS ee 31 0 0
Binding ne oe ee bee ol0: 9-0
Coins ... “ae sae sis ei 6S) 40.20
2,888 8 5
To PUBLICATIONS.
Journal, Part I ... 7) Mea Se ae 420°. 8 3
Journal, Part II .... sae an nie a 000 10-3
Proceedings ae ve bad =o 995 4 6
4,416 7 O
To Printing charges of circulars, receipt forms &c. ... 119 6 0
To Extraordinary charges Miscellaneous... es 22814 9° 1b 757 9 eS
To PERSONAL Account (Writes off and Miscellaneous) : 244 10 6
To Balance ... ue oi ne 142,735 12-7
Total Rs.... 1,58,737 14 6
Examined and found correct.
Mrucens & Kine,
Public Accountants.
31st January, 1888.
e
No. 1.
of Bengal.
By Balance from last Report ace vas oth Rs. 1,41,492 7 10
By Casu REcEIpPtS.
Publications sold for cash ... as Rs. 254 510
Interest on Investments tie Sie fel OO GbE ne
Advances recovered a oe eee 6 2 0
Miscellaneous We a ae ae 43 4 6
Sale Proceeds of a strip of land wee a 2,116 0 0O
8,700 7 11
By Prrsonat ACCOUNT.
Admission fees i. aa ns age 582 0 @
Subscriptions fe oe se se 7,637 0 O
Sales on Credit... es ae sap 205 0 ‘6
Miscellaneous ns aoe se Sites 120 14 9
8,544 14 9
Total Income... pi 17,245 6 8
Total Rs., 1,58,737 14 6
ALEX, PEDLER,
Honorary Secy. and Treasurer,
Asiatic Society of Bengal.
xx
STATEMENT
Oriental Publication Fund in account with
Dr.
To CasH EXPENDITURE.
Printing charges ... oe aoe Rs. 9,490 4 0
Editing charges ... ae oes o. 940007 0
Salaries ia Ht oes vee) AVG OG
Advertising coe ae ane vee 110 0 O
Freight ee0 coe eve Arr) 52 15 0
Stationery nee aes o aes 35 4 O
Postage eee vee oe SP 553 2 9
Contingencies... oe 18 6:9
Commission on Collecting Bills 50 710
16,987 3 4
To PersonaL Account (Writes off and Miscellaneous) 20 4 0
Total Expenditure .., eae Bar 17,007 7 4
To Balance wae ae ao 12,368 2 6
Total Rs., 29,375 9 10
#xamined and found correct.
Mervucens & KIne,
Public Accountants.
31st January, 1888.
Xxi
No. 2.
the Asiatic Society of Bengal.
Cr.
By Balance from last Report vee sia tee Rs. 16,943 2 6
By Casu Receipts.
Government allowance ra sie Rs. 9,000 0 O
Publications sold for Cash .., ae oa 744 010
Advances recovered aie tee writ IiZia3 6
Interest on Investments a eae ae 440 0 0
10,305 4 4
By Persona Account.
Sales on Credit ... we ea ae! (2110 14-3
Miscellaneous ae oY se er 16 4 9
2127 3 0
Total Income 12,482 7 4
Total Rs., 29,375 910
ALEX. PEDLER,
Honorary Secy. and Treasurer,
Asiatic Society of Bengal.
Xxil
STATEMENT
Sanskrit Manuscript Fund tn account with
To CasH EXPENDITURE.
Salaries aon
Travelling Expenses x5
Purchase of MSS. ise
Copying sla’ eee
Commission =be
Printing
Postage
Contingencies... wes
To Balance
Rs. 1,362 3 0
ao 33
1,310 15 6
9 0 0
512 0
518 0 0
bE 1413 3
18. 7 0: 8.6480 eae
1,715 5 0
Total Rs., 5,363 11 0
Examined and found correct.
Mevucens & Kina,
Public Accountants,
31st January, 1888.
No. 38.
the Asiatic Society of Bengal.
By Balance from last Report ae Ade sae Rs. 2,82F 12 O
By Casu REcEIPtTs.
Government allowances aoe aa Rs. 3,200 0 O
Publications sold for cash .., es cee 9 0 0
3,209 0 O
By Prersonat Account.
Publications sold on Credit aa Fak wan oe Oe
Total Income ... 3,242 0 0
Total Rs., 5,363 11 O
ALEX. PEDLER,
Honorary Secy. and Treaswer,
Asiatic Society of Bengal.
XX1V
STATEMENT
Personal
Dr;
To Balance from last Report ... st an co Rs. 3,907 5 2
To CasH ExPENDITURE.
Advances for purchase of Sanskrit MSS., postage of
books to members Ae wes ae one Li6l, 8° 2
To Asiatic Society ss . 98,544 14 9
To Oriental Publication cee ah an > 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.
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Monthly General a ee ows son wigs aise ats 93
Presentations Ee 5 a s i) ee ib,
Election of Members ae pe 2 eae ag a ib.
Resignation of Members wes Scie oa <P te ib.
Death of Members 5 Be ie xe he. ae A ib.
Appointment of Committees... ; 94
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Papers—
1. On the Barisal Guns.—By Basu Gavrpis ByYsack ae £5: 97
Observations thereon by the PRESIDENT Et ce orien V8 5
And by Mr. T. D. La ToucHe and Mr. Etson ,,. 112
2. Note on some Buddhist copper coins anda terra cotta figure. —By Banv
GaurpAs Bysack (with a plate) sb ay, WP ree fh
3. Note on some ancient Nepalese coins.—By Dr. HoERNLE ed eases
4. Akbar and Father Jerome Xavier.—By H. Bevrriner, Esq., (title only) .. 17
5. On the nature of the Toxic principle of Aroidee. Se C. H. T. Wappen,
Esq., F. C. S. and A. PEDLER, dares Ate Ore ie) ore ae ary oa ad.
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Sanskrit Series.
Advaita Brahma Siddhi, Fasc.I ... ne Rs.
Agni Purana, (Sans. ) Fase. I—XIV @ /6/ naan
Anu Bhashyam, Fasc. I
Aitareya Aranyaka of the Rig Veda, (Sans. ) Faso. I—V @ /6/ each
Aphorisms of Sandilya, (English) Fasc. I
Aphorisms of the Vedanta, (Sans. ) Fasc. IIT, V—XIII @ /6/ each
Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita, Fasc. ay: @ (el each ...
Asvaldyana Grihya Sutra, Fasc. II—IV @ /6/ ..
Asvavaidyka, Fasc. I—V @ /6/ each
Atharvana Upanishad, (Sanskrit) Fasc. I—V @ /S/ ee
Brahma Stitra, (English) Fasc.I_... ie
Bhamati, (Sans. ) Fase. I—VIII @ /6/each _...
Brihat Aranyaka Upanishad, (Sans.) Fasc. VI, VII & IX @ /S/ each .
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Brihat Samhitd, (Sans.) Fasc. II—III, V—VII @ /6/ pack’:
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Chhandogya Upanishad, (English) Fase. II
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Gopatha Bréhmana, (Sans. & Eng.) Fase. I and II @ /6/ eabhe
Gobhiliya Grihya Stitra, (Sans.) Fasc. I—XIT @ /6/ each .
Hindu Astronomy, (English) Fasc. I—III @ ‘gs each
Kilamadhaba, Fasc. I-III @/6/__... a
Katantra, (Sans.) Fasc. I—VI @ /12/ each :
Katha Sarit Sagara, (English) Fasc. I—XIV @ /12/ Bich \
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Lalita Vistara, Sans. Fasc. II— VI @ /6/ rat
Lalita Vistara,(English) Fase. I—III @ /12/ each Ss es
Madana Parijata, Fasc. I eee vee
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Markandeya Pans (Sans.) Fase. [V—VII @ /6/ each
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Fasc. 1—6; Vol. IV, Fasc. I—V @ /6/ each Fasc. “
Narada Smriti, Fasc. I and III @ /6/
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Narada Pancharatna, Fase. a's
Parisishtaparvana (Sans.) Fasc. I—IV @ /6/ each
Pingala Chhanda Sitra, (Sans.) Fasc. II—III @ /6/ each .
Prithiraj Rasau, (Sans.) Fasc. I—VI @ /6/ each aes
Ditto (English) Fase.I...
Pali Grammar, (English) Fasc. I and II @ /6/ each
Prakrita Lakshanam, (Sans.) Fasc. I
Pardsara Smriti (Sans.) Fasc. I—VI @ /6/ each
Parasar4, Institutes of, (English
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Ditto Asvalayana, (Sans.) Fasc. I—XI @ /6/ each saa
Ditto Latyayana (Sans.) Fasc. I—IX @ /6/ each ve
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Sama Veda Samhita, (Sans.) Vols. I, Fasc. 1—10; II, 1—6; III, i-j;
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Sahitya Darpana (English) Fasc. I—IV @ /6/ each
Sankhya Aphorisms of Kapila, (English) Fasc. I and II @ /e/ each
Sarva Darsana Sangraha, (Sans.) Fasc. II
Sankara Vijaya, (Sans.) Fase. II and III @ /6/ each
Sankhya Pravachana Bhashya, Fasc. III heloag preface only)
Safikhya Sara, (Sans.) Fasc. I 4
S’ri Bhashyam, Fasc.I ...
Susruta Samhita, (Eng.) Fasc. I and II @ /12/ each
Taittiriya Aranya, (Fasc. I—XI @ /10/ each
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Ditto Samhita, (Sans.) Fasc. I—XXXIV @ /6/ each ...
Ditto Pratiéikhya, (Sans.) Fasc. I—III @ /6/each ...
Ditto and Aitareya Upanishad (Sans.) Fasc. II and III @ /6/ each
Tandya Brahmana, (Sans. ) Fasc. I—X1IX @ /6/ each ; ‘
Tatta Chintamani, Fasc. I—IX (Sans.) @ /6/ each
Uttara Naishadha, (Sans.) Fase. III—XII @ /6/ each
Uvasagadasasao, Fasc. I—I1V @ /12/ each
Vardha Purana, Fasc. I—VI @ /6/ each
Vayu Purana, (Sans.) Vol. I, Fase. 1—6; Vol. Hy, Fase. eae @ /*/
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Vishnu Smriti, (Sans.) Fase. I—II @ /6/ each |
Vivadaratnakara, Fasc. I—VII @ /6/ each ;
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Akbarnamah, with Index, (Text) Fase. I—XXXIX @ 1/ each ai39
Badshahnamah with Index, (Text) Fasc. I—XIX @ /6/ each 7
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Ashtasahasriké Prajnaparamita, Fasc. Iv: @ is) each ..,
Asvalaéyana Grihya Sutra, Fasc. II—IV @ /6/ .. rae ee
Asvavaidyka, Fase. I—V @ /6/ each ss Te
Atharvana Upanishad, (Sanskrit) Fase. I—V @ ‘/6/ een:
Brahma Siitra, (English) Fasc.I _.., ne on
Bhaématti, (Sans.) Fasc. I—VIII @ /6/ each 3
Bribaddharma Purdnam, Fasc. re
Bribat Aranyaka Upanishad, (Sans.) Fase. VAG VII & IX @ /e/ each .
Ditto (English) Fase. II—III @ /6/ each a
Brihat Sawhitd, (Sans.) Fasc. I—III, V—VII @ /6/ each...
Chaitanya-Chandrodaya Nataka, (Sans. ) Fasc. II—III @ /6/ each ye
Chaturvarga Chintamani, (Sans.) Vols. I, Fasc. 1—11; II, air 1
1—18, @ /6/ each Fasc. é
Chhindogya Upanishad, (English) Faso. IT
Dasa Rupa, Fasc. II and II @ /6/..
Gopatha Braéhmana, (Sans. & Eng.) Fasc. I and II @ /6/ each.
Gobhiliya Grihya Stitra, (Sans.) Fase. I—XII @ /6/each .
Hindu Astronomy, (English) Fasc. I—III @ 18 each
KAélamadhaba, Fase. I-III @ /6/ A
Katantra, (Sans.) Fasc. I—VI @ /12/ each a
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Sanskrit Series.
Advaita Bepkia Siddhi, Fasc. I i) GaSe
Agni Purana, (Sans.) Fasc. ues ang @ /6/ each oy
Anu Bhashyam, Fase. I
Aitareya Aranyaka of the Rig Veda, {Sane ) Fase. I—V @ /6/ each
Aphorisms of Sandilya, (English) Fasc. I
Aphorisms of the Vedanta, (Sans. ) Fasc. III, V—XIII r@ /6/ each
Ashtasahasriké Prajnaparamita, Fasc. I—V @ i6/ each...
Asvalayana Grihya Sutra, Fasc. II—IV @ /6/ .. Sn Cine
Asvavaidyka, l’asc. I—V @ /6/ each
Atharvana Upanishad, (Sanskrit) Fase. I—V @ /5/ Bae:
Brahma Sitra, (English) Fase.I_... y ‘nk
Bhamati, (Sans.) Fasc. I—VIII @ /6/ each Be
Brihaddharma Puranam, Fasc. oe
Brihat Aranyaka Upanishad, (Sans.) ‘Fase. VI, VII & IX @ /8/ a
Ditto (English) Fase. II—III @ /6/ each
© Brihat Sawhitd, (Sans.) Fasc. II—III, V—VII @ /6/ each..
Chaitanya-Chandrodaya Nataka, (Sans. ) Fase. II—III @ /6/ each |. °,.:
Chaturvarga Chintaémani, (Sans.) Vols. I, Fasc. 1—11; II, 1—25; ITI,
1—18, @ /6/ each Fasc. es
Chhandogya Upanishad, (English) Fase. II
Dasa Rupa, Fase. II and Ill @ /6/ ..
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Gobhiliya Grihya Sttra, (Sans.) Fasc. I—XII @ /6/each . mai 8
Hindu Astronomy, (English) Fasc. I—III @ 8) each aes fe :
Kalam4dhaba, Fasc. I-III @/6/_—.. te ah Aik i 7
KAtantra, (Sans.) Fasc. I—VI @ / 12/ each wey : is ‘
Katha Sarit Sagara, (English) Fase. I —XIV @ iu each ee 8
Kaushitaki Brahman Upanishad, Fasc. IT we 4 =f
Kurma Purana, Fasc. I—VI @ /6/ each A ae a f
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Advaita Sapna Siddhi, Fasc. I sea RM Ph at et
Agni Purana, (Sans. ) Fasc. I—XIV @ /6/ each NST eae SL ee,
Anu Bhashyam, Fase. I Sean? Oe
Aitareya Aranyaka of the Rig Veda, (Sans. ) Fase. I—V @ ji 6/ pagh oo ae
Aphorisms of Sandilya, (English) Fasc. I ENE
Aphorisms of the Vedanta, (Sans.) Fasc. IIT, V—XIII ,@ /6/e each an oa
Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita, Fasc. I—V @ fi each... Wye Tate |
Asvalayana Grihya Sutra, Fasc. II—IV @ /6/ ... an eae ae |
Asvavaidyka, Fasc. I—V @ @ /6/ each Has ieee ie
Atharvana Upanishad, (Sanskrit) Fase. I—V @ /6/ each . ASE ne
Brahma Sitra, (English) Fasc.I_... sat * a Oe
Bhémati, (Sans.) Fasc. I—VI1 @ /6/each ae Oe eta HS
Bribaddharma Purdnam, Fasc. I gee
Brihat Aranyaka Upanishad, (Sans. y Faso. Ripe VII & IX @ // each ... 1
Ditto (Hnglish) Fasc. II—III @ /6/ each a0
Brihat Sawhité, (Sans.) Fase. II—III, V—VII @ /6/ each.. Baek |
‘Chaitanya- -Chandrodaya. Nataka, (Sans. ) Fasc. II—III @ 6) eh )
Chaturvarga Chintéamani, (Sans.) Vols. I, Fasc. 1—11; II, 1—25; III,
1—19, @ /6/each Fasc. Ras tae a's den
Chha4ndogya Upanishad, (English) Fasc. II... a sing Jk
Dasa Rupa, Fase. I and IlI @ /6/ .. 0
Gopatha Brahmana, (Sans. & Eng.) Fasc. I and II @ /6/ each | oO
Gobhilfya Grihya Satra, (Sans. ) Fasc. I—XII @ /6/ each . eee
Hindu Astronomy, (English) Fasc. I—III @ /6/ each st RS |
Kélamaédhaba, Fase. I-III @ /6/ ve ay ae
Kétantra, (Sans. ) Fasc. I—VI @ /12/ each a OF Lea
Katha Sarit Sagara, (English) Fasc. I—XIV @ /12/each .., ee
Kaushitaki Brahman Upanishad, Fasc. II iss 3 fe)
Kurma Purana, Fasc. I—VI1 @ /6/ each fig re eee)
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istara,(Hnglish) Fase. I—III @ /12/ aie aS Seay,
Mac rijata, Fase. I—II @ /6/ each a3 Ser ne eee Ee
ven Sangraha, Fasc.I and II @ /6/each.. = ts
amsa Darsana, (Sans.) Fasc. II—XIX @ /6/ each aisha Se
= - Miskandeya Purana, (Sans.) Fasc. IV—VII @ /6/each 1.0 une
_ Nayaviartikam, Fasc. I a line,
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Seen 5 oe te Base Iv @ /6/ each Fasc. ... -
Sérada Smriti, Fasc. I and III @ /6/ ia aie ;
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Pifigala Chhanda Sutra, (Sans.) Fasc. II—III @ /6/ each . “ies
| Prithir j Résan, (Sans.) Fasc. I—VI @ /6/ each BE <a
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Pali eee (English) Fasc. I and II @ /6/ each ne oe
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Ditto. AsSvalayana, (Sans.) Fasc. I—XI @ /6/ each ee
Ditto = _ Latyayana (Sans.) Fasc. I—IX @ /6/ each i
Ditto | : Saénkhyayana Fasc. I—VI (Sans.) @ /6/ each
Sima Veda Sawhité, (Sans.) Vols. I, Fasc. 1—10 ; II, 1—6; III, 1-7;
Bi sk IV, 1—6; V, 1—8, @ /6/ each Fasc. ss
*s | ‘Sahitya Darpana (English) Fase. I—IV @ /6/ each
: - Safi ikhya Aphorisms of Kapila, (English) Fasc. I and II @ /e/ each
- Sarva Darsana Sangraha, (Sans.) Fasc. II.
-Safkara Vijaya, (Sans.) Fase. I] and II @ /6/ each ar
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-‘Taittiriya Aranya, (Fase. I—XI @ /10/ each ae
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Advaita Brahma Siddhi, Fasc. I or sagen Ba
Agni Purana, (Sans. ) Fasc. I—XIV @ /6/ eel i ay
Anu Bhashyam, Fase. I
Aitareya Aranyaka of the Rig Veda, (Sans. ) Fase. iy @ /6/ each
Aphorisms of Sindilya, (English) Fase. I
Aphorisms of the Vedanta, (Sans.) Fasc. IIT, V—Xir @ /6/ each
Ashtasahasrik4 Prajnaparamita, Fasc. I—V @ iS) eaeh . 2:3
Asvaléyana Grihya Sutra, Fasc. II—IV @ /6/ .. Lines
Asvavaidyka, l’asc. I—V @ /6/ each
Atharvana Upanishad, (Sanskrit) Fasc. I—V @ /S/ eae
Brahma Sitra, (English) Fasc.I_... ye
Bh4émati, (Sans.) Fasc. I—VIII @ /6/ each
Brihaddharma Purdnam, Fasc.
Brihat Aranyaka Upanishad, (Sans. ) Fase. VI, VII & IX @ /®/ Baie
Ditto (English) Fasc. II—III @ /6/ each
Brihat Saw hita, (Sans.) Fasc. II—II, V—VII @ /6/ dank
Chaitanya- -Chandrodaya Nataka, (Sans. } Fasc. II—III @ /6/ each
Chaturvarga Chintamani, (Sans.) Vols. I, Fase. 1—11; HU, 1—26; II,
Supe eine
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‘I—XX, @ /6/ each Fasc. 91 ic:
Chhaéndogya Upanishad, (English) Fase. II ng 6 '
Dasa Rupa, Fasc. Il and II @ /6/ .. hare Te
Gopatha Brahmana, (Sans. & Eng.) Fase. I and II @ /6/ each — Ota ae
Gobhiliya Grihya Sdtra, (Sans.) Fase. I—XII @ /6/ each ... Sota 3 &
Hindu Astronomy, (English) Fasc. I—III @ [8h reir tage iar 2
Kélamadhaba, Fase. I-IV @ /6/ i; cee era:
Katantra, (Sans.) Fasc. I—VI @ /12/ each ee {an ais ete: = aa
Katha Sarit Sagara, (English) Fasc. I—XIV @ ines gage: .. 10 8 x
Kaushitaki Brahman Upanishad, Fasc. TT Ee ag 6 7
Kurma Purana, Fasc. I—VI @ /6/ each ves ese? nee 4 8
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Lalita Vistara, Bia, Fasc. II—VI @ /6/ 1 Rs.
Lalita Vistara,(English) Fase. I—III @ /12/ each st a
Madana Parijata, Fasc. I—II @ /6/each . eee
Manutiké Sangraha, Fasc. I and II @ /6/ each.. ce :
Mimaémsié Darsana, (Sans.) Fasc. II—XIX @ /6/ each we see
Markandeya Pirdna, (Sans.) Fasc. IV—VII @ /6/each ... Chie
Nayavartikam, Base. 1.5. pee <
Nrisinha Tapani, (Sans.) Fasc. Litt @ /6/ each
Nirukta, (Sans.) Vol. I, Fasc. 1—6; Vol. II, Fase. 1 to 6: Vol. III,
Fasc. 1—6; Vol. IV, Fase. I—V @ /6/ each Fasc.
Narada Smriti, Fasc. I and III @ /6|/
Nydya Darsana, (Sans.) Fasc. III...
Nitisara, or, The Elements of Polity, ny Kémandaki, (Sans. ) Fase. TI—V
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Narada Pancharatna, Fasc. TV gi
Parisishtaparvana (Sans.) Fasc. Toy @ /6/ each ne
Pingala Chhanda Sttra, (Sans.) Fase. II—III @ /6/ each . .
Prithir4j Rasau, (Sans.) Fase. I—VI @ /6/ each ah
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' Pali Grammar, (English) Fasc. I and II @ /6/ each fs
Prakrita Lakshanam, (Sans.) Fasc. I a
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