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are such as to free him from the obligation to reduce them by such 
corrections as correction for temperature and for the height of the 
place of observation above the sea-level before publishing, then it is 
hardly too much to say that his letter discloses that which makes 
his own tables altogether untrustworthy. 
The following papers were read :— 
: 
I,.—NortEs oN SEVERAL ARABIC AND PERSIAN INSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED 
FROM MEMBERS OF THE Socrnry,—éy H. Buocumann, Esa., M. A., 
Canourta Maprasan, (Abstract.) 
Mr. Blochmann said,— 
The inscriptions which I lay before the meeting were received by 
the Society in the course of last year. Some of them were for- 
warded in the shape of rubbings, others were decyphered, by various 
members as Dr. W. Oldham, C. 8., Ghazipir; Mr. J. G. Delmerick, 
Rawal Pindi; ‘Mr. A. Cadell, C. 8., Muzaffarnagar; Mr. A. 8S. 
Harrison, Bareilly College, and Mr. A, Carllyle, Agrah, to whom 
the Society owes several most costly contributions. One inscrip- 
tion I obtained from Burdwan. 
I trust the members of our Society will continue to favour 
us with inscriptions and rubbings. These inscriptions, if not 
always of historical importance, are yet interesting, and help his- 
torians to correct dates and verify events, or settle boundaries, or 
fill up gaps— and this is especially the case with old Bengal inscrip- 
tions—in the lists of kings. 
1. An inscription received from Dr. W. Oldham, Tt refers to the 
building of a mosque in A. D. 1527 by a Bengal Amir, who lived 
under Nugrah Shah, the same king of Bengal whose name occurs 
in the inscriptions at Satganw. It is on black basalt, and was found 
at Sikandarpdr, zil’ah ’Azimgarh. The locality is here of import- — 
ance. 
2. Two inscriptions from Mr. Delmerick. One refers to the 
building of Fort Atak by Akbar in 1583 (991, A. H.); the other 
to the construction of the Margalah Pass by Aurangzib, when the 
- emperor was at Hasan Abdal. Its date is A. D. 1672 (A. H. 1083). 
