PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL 
FOR APRIL, 1871. 
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The monthly meeting of the Society was held on Wednesday the 
5th instant at 9 o’clock P, M. 
The Hon’ble Mr. Justice Phear, President, in the chair. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed 
Presentations were announced :— 
1. From Col. T. C. Hamilton — a large round Gold coin, very 
thin, somewhat more than an inch in diameter. 
Col. Hamilton writes that he received the coin from Mr. W. H. 
Pattisson, District Superintendent in Ramree, who obtained the 
same on the island Cheduba. In an account which Mr. Pattisson 
published in the Arracan News of 1871 (p. 27) regarding his trip on 
Cheduba island, the same officer states to have been informed that the 
inscription on the coin is in Cingalese, and that the coin was struck 
during the reign of Maha Paramat, king of Ceylon in the year of 
religion 446. This would nearly correspond with the year 1086, A. D. 
Since the publication of the account, just alluded to, Mr. Pattisson, 
however, believes to have ascertained that the inscription is in old 
Siamese character. 
2. From G. Latham, Esquire — two charts of the Harbour of 
Bombay. 
8. From Major J. M. Graham —a group of rudely moulded 
brass figures, representing “ Lushais’” and their social habits. 
The following memorandum accompanied the donation : 
“The group was presented by one of the ‘ Lushai’ chiefs of the 
tribe of ‘Nuttun Pooea’ to Major Graham, then Deputy Commis- 
