3899.] R. D. Oldliam— On Time in India. 49 



Patna : full Rupees, with Ilalii years 40 and 43, 

 Khurdad ^square) ; 48, Isfandarmiz (square) ; 49, 

 Ardlhihisht (one squai-e and one round), two 

 (square) of uncertain date ... ... 7 



„ half Rupees, round, with Tlah! years 45 

 Farivardln, 46 Shahreivar, 48 and 49 Amavdnd ... 4 

 Urdu-i-Zafar-qarin : square, with Kalimali on obv., 

 year 1000 {alif) i 



Full Rupee ... ... ... ... 1 



Half Rupees ... ... ... ... 2 



Ilahabad : late imitation, no date ... ... 1 



No Mint : square Rupees with Kalimali on obv., and 

 years 977, 986, 987, 988, 989, 991, 992, 997, 998, 



1001 (in words , ,') ... ... ... 13 



No Mint : square, half Rupees with years 990 and 994 2 

 „ round Kalimali Rupees, with years 979, 



980, 984, 985, 989 ... ... 8 



„ half Rupee, square, with Ilahi year 42 ... 151 



Grand Total ... 87 



Major A. Alcock, I. M.S., exhibited some models of deep sea fishes. 



Mr. F. Fiun exhibited a pair of albino Blue-winged Teal (Qnerque- 

 dula circia) and an albino Snipe ( Qallinago coelestis) and made re- 

 marks on them. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. On Time in India: a suggestion for its improvement. — By R. U. 

 Oldham, F.G.S., Superintendent, Geological Survey of India. 



In his anniversary address our President reminded us that the magni- 

 ficent collections and additions to the knowledge of the deep-sea Fauna 

 of the Indian seas, which have been made through the agency of the 

 Indian Marine Survey, are due to the initiative of this Society. To-night 

 I desire to lay before you a proposition that we shall once more take the 

 initiative, this time in introducing a far reaching but attainable reform, 

 I mean the universal adoption of a standard time in India, and the 

 abolition of the present barbarous arrangement, unworthy of a country 

 pretending to civilisation, by which every place keeps its own time. 



In former days, when means of communication were slow and difficult, 

 and there was no means of maintaining a standard time, it was natural 

 that each place should adopt its own local time, usually obtained fi'om a 



