J894.] Pliilological Secretary. — E.vldhltion of Asstutiese Gold Coin. Ill 



he enricliotl tlie museums of Europe as well as of India/' " It was from 

 the MSS. he then sent to Paris that Eugene Burnouf was enabled to 

 undertake the first accurate examination of (lie oiigin of Buddhism;" 

 and equally important was his acquisition of tlic great Tibetan Ency- 

 clopgedia, in 334 volumes, which now repose in the library of the India 

 Office. He was also the first to collect vocabularies of the unwritten 

 dialects of the hill tribes throughout India, from the Himalayas to 

 Ceylon. But he was no less devoted to Natural History. The pages of 

 the Journal of this Society bear full witness to his researches. No less 

 than eleven species of the Mamiualia and one genus of the Aves of 

 India are named after him ; and both the Indian Museum and t'nc 

 British Museum owe many of their specimens to his generosity. To 

 the solution of practical questions, too, he contributed his share of 

 pioneer-work : such as the possibilities of commerce between Nepal and 

 British India, the policy of enrolling Gurkha battalions in the native 

 army, the suitability of the Sub-Himalayas for sanitariums, and 

 others. 



Though Brian Hodgson received no mark of distinction from his 

 own Government, our Society — his own Society — gave him (as already 

 stated) a bust, placed in the room in which we meet to-day, the Royal 

 Society made him a Fellow, and the Oxford University gave him the 

 D. C. L. degree. France also gave him the Legion of Honour, a medal 

 specially struck by the Societe Asiatique, and the Corresponding Mem- 

 bership of the Institute. But his real distinction is his works, of which 

 three collected volumes were published in 1874 and 1880. 



The Philological Secretary exhibited an old Assamese Gold Coin, 

 and read a note on the same, by E. A. Gait, Esq., C. S. 

 The note will be published in the Journal, Part I. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. Abstract Contents of one of the Ahoni Pathis of Asani. — By E. A. 

 Gait, Esq., C. S. 



The papers will be published in the Journal, Part I. 



2. Guru Gohiud Singh and Bandah. — By Wm. Iryine, Esq., I. C. S., 

 Retired. 



3. An Account of the Collection of Deep Sen Crustacea receyitly made 

 by the E. I. M. S- "Investigator," in the Bay of Bengal and Laccadive 

 Sea. — By Surgeon-Captaixs A. W. Alcock and A. R. Axdeksox. 



The paper will be [)ublished in the Juurnal, Part II. 



