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Wo. 148.—The precipice all round the plateau is quite perpen- 
dicular, dipping down for a distance of 500 feet in some places, 
and nearly double that distance in others. 
The following gentlemen duly proposed and seconded at the last 
meeting were balloted for and elected Ordinary Members— 
Capt. W. L. Samuells, Assistant Commissioner, Pachumba, 
Chord line, 
8. E. Peal, Esq., Sibsagor, Asam. 
The following gentleman is a candidate for ballot at the next 
meeting— 
W. D. Butcher, Esq., M. R. C. 8., proposed by Mr. G. Nevill, 
seconded by Mr. J, Wood-Mason. 
The following gentlemen have intimated their desire to withdraw 
from the Society— 
Dr. H. Warth; J. F. Cockburn, Esq.; Dr. J. M. Fleming. 
The following letter from J. G. Detmzricr, Hse., Rawalpindi, was 
read— 
‘I beg to inform you of the discovery of a hoard of seventy-four 
Indo-Bactrian hemidrachms in this District. 
‘ Of these no less than fifty-eight were of Menander, wiz. :—20, 
with bare head ; 15, with helmeted head ; 22, with bare head, hurling 
ajavelin. 1. Owl on the reverse. Six were of Antimachus Nike- 
phoros, and ten of Apollodotus, square, and of the common elephant 
and bull type. : 
‘These coins were recently found by Sharaf, son of Naji, caste 
Mochi, age 16, of the village of Shakarpari, Tahcil of Rawalpindi. 
The site of their discovery is a ravine five miles due north of Ra- 
walpindi on the Saidpur road. Sharaf was employed in digging 
out the root of a shrub when he accidentally came upon the coins 
in a hole. They might have been in a pot, which he thinks 
may have been broken by the spade with which he was digging, 
but he saw no pot. No buildings or ancient remains are any- 
where near the spot, and Shakarpari is an insignificant village 
with no pucca buildings or ruins. The finder was rewarded from 
our local funds, and the whole of the coins, which were in perfect 
