1890.] Address. fi9 



Mr. Edgar Thurston, Director of the Central Museum, Madras, has 

 brought out No. 3 of his Catalogues of Corns in the Madras Museum, com- 

 prising the Sultans of Delhi. It consists of an enumeration of 314 coins 

 of various Sultans in chronological order, with references to Thomas' 

 Chronicles of the Fathan Kings of Delhi, the British Museum " Catalogue 

 of the coins of the Sultans of Delhi " and articles by Mr. C. J. Rodgers, in 

 the Journal and Proceedings of our Society and in the Indian Antiquary . 



Mr. Thurston's " History of the Coinage of the East India Company 

 in the Indian Peninsula, and Catalogue of Coins in the Madras Museum" 

 with 20 plates, is nearly ready and will appear almost at once. 



The Madras Journal of Literature and Science contains a paper, 

 by T. M. Rangachari and T. Desikachari, giving an account of the silver 

 and copper Indo-Danish coins issued from the Tranquebar Mint under the 

 Kings of Denmark, from Fred. Ill, A. D. 1648 to Fred. VI, A. D. 1819. 

 Papers have also been read before the Madras Literary Society by Mr. 

 T. M. Scott on Symbolism on Indian Coins, Part I. " Punch mark- 

 ed, " and by the Rev. J. E. Tracy on the Coins of the Sethupatis. 



A " Catalogue of Mysore Coins in the collection of the Government 

 Museum, Bangalore," by Capt. R. H. C. Tufnell, M. S. C, illustrated by 

 five collotype plates, has been published under instructions from the 

 Government of H. H. the Maharajah of Mysore. 



Mr. L. Dames has contributed to the Ntimismatic Chronicle a 

 valuable paper on the Coins of the Durranis, from Timur Shah's acces- 

 sion, in A. D. 1773, lo their final expulsion from Cabul by the Barakzais 

 in A. D. 1842. 



Among the coin-papers in the Indian Anticptary may be noted 

 Mr. J. F. Fleet's on the Coins and History of Toramana, in which he 

 fixes the approximate date of A. D. 460 for the commencement of the 

 reign of that king, at his own capital in the Pan jab; a short note on 

 the Bodleian collection of coins by Mr. J. A. Smith, who has also de- 

 scribed the Gupta coins of the collection in a paper entitled, " The 

 Coinage of the Early or Imperial Gupta Dynasty of Northern India," 

 published in the Journal of the Boyal Asiatic Society; also Dr. Hultzsch's 

 paper on the names of the coins of Tipu Sultan. 



A paper has lately been read by Mr. T. J. Symonds before the 

 Anthropological Society of Bombay, on some Indo-French and ludo- 

 Dutch coins struck at Pondicherry and at Negapatam and Pulicat. 



Akch^ologt. 



A few papers of Archaeological interest appear in our Jou,rnal and 

 Proceedings. 



Mr. Asutosh Gupta has contributed some notes on the ruins of Jay 



