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ton, and on Gold coins from Angul in Oriss.a, attiibuted to the Gaijga 

 Kings of Kaliijga, by Babvi M. M. Chakravattti, deserve notice. Of 

 Treasure Trove Coins, 14 hoards, comprising about 2,500 coins, were 

 examined and desci'ibed during the last year by Dr. Bloch, the Society's 

 Philological Secretary. 



I cannot conclude these remarks without a reference to the 

 irreparable loss which Oriental Learning has sustained in the last year 

 by the untimely death of that eminent Sanskrit scholar Prof. Georg 

 Euhler. Since 1895, he had been connected with the Society as one of 

 its Honoraiy Members, and in former years he had sent us papers 

 on different subjects of Hindu Law, on which he has long been one of 

 the first authoiities. His death will be felt for many years wherever 

 the study of Indian History, Antiquities, and Literature is cultivated. 



Among other Members whose death we have to deplore, I must 

 mention the great educational reformer Sir Sayyid Ahmad Elian, who 

 had been an Ordinary Member since J860, and had long ago made his 

 name as an archaeologist. His Asdru-s-sanadul or " Relics of Kings," 

 publislied in Urdu in 1846 and 1854, still remains the standard authority 

 on the antiquities of Dehli, and has been largely made use of by 

 General Cunningham and other writers on the same subject. The late 

 Mr. Umesh Chandra Batabyal, C.S., an Ordinary Member since 

 1893, deserves to be mentioned here in connection with his edition of 

 the Faridpnr Copper-plate Inscription of Dharmapala, the oldest 

 document bearing on the history of the Pala Kings of Bihar, which he 

 had the credit of discovering and editing for the first time in the 

 Society's Journal for 1894. 



The name of the late Mr. Ch. J. Rodgers, an Associate Member 

 since J 883, is intimately connected with Numismatic Research in India. 

 Having been for many years an ardent collector of coins, especially 

 Muharamadan coins, in the North-West of India, he applied the know- 

 ledge thus acquired to cataloguing the collections of coins of the 

 various Museums in India. For this Society he published a long series 

 of important papers on new or i^are classes of coins, and one of his 

 last works was the compilation of a Catalogue of the Society's Coins. 

 This Catalogue unfortunately is still in manuscript, and we cannot at 

 present afford to print it. 



For the same reason we have been able to publish only two num- 

 bers of Part II of the Journal, dealing with Natural Science, but those 

 contain some impoitant contributions. I would in particular draw 

 attention to Sir George King's Materials for a Flora of the Mahiijnn 

 Peninsula, of which the present year's issue of the Journal contains the 

 tenth instalment. For the completion of this we look to some peca- 



