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Coins of Southern India. The most interesting fact is that, 

 being quite blind, he revised the proofs, &c., by the ear, and 

 described many of the coins by the touch. 



Since this notice was read, it occurred to some friends tliat 

 a memorial tablet should be erected within the Parish 

 Church of Hobkirk, and the following epitaph was drawn up 

 by Colonel Henry Yule, C.B. : — 



THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED BY FRIENDS. 



VLo t\)t IjonourcK JlHcmonj 



SIR WALTER ELLIOT OF WOLFELEE, 



K.C.S.I., LL.D., F.R.S., Etc., 



Who was for forty Years a Member of tlie Civil Service at Madras, 

 and during the last tive held a Seat in the Council of that Presidency. 



Able, Trusted, and Distinguished in the Service of the State, 



He was yet more Eminent for the immense Compass and Fruitfulness 



of his Eesearch 



in Fields of Study so various and so rarely combined 



as the Archpeology and the Natural History 



of the Indian Peninsula. 



His Work in the Collection, the Deciplierment, and the Elucidation 



of ancient Hindu Inscriptions in sundry Languages 



Has formed a chief Element in the Recovery of the History of the 



Territories in which he laboured; 



His Rescue of the precious Marbles of Amravati, 



which now line the great Staircase of the British Museum, 



brought to Light one of the most wonderful Monuments 



of ancient Indian Art and Religion ; 



His Treatise on the Coins of Southern India, 



based on the indefatigable Research of many Years, 



but finally elaborated at tlie Age of Eighty-two, when he was 



entirely bereaved of Sight, 



presents a rare and memorable Example 



of undismayed and successful Struggle with Ditliculties 



which might well have seemed overwhelming ; 



His numerous Contriluitions to Scientific Journals, bearing on the 



Ethnology, the Zoology, the Ornithology, the Agriculture, and the 



Vegetation of the same Regions, testify at once to the Width of his 



intellectual Interests, and the Accuracy of his Observation. 



Frrr twenty -four years after his return from the East, he dwelt in his native 

 county and on his paternal estate, honoured and beloved; efficiently fulfilling 

 all the duties of a country gentleman ; recognised hg all as a devout Christian 

 man, of singularly sweet and equable temper, of generous and Icindly hospi- 

 tality, and of unfailing patience under the blindness which tried so severely a 

 man of his varied tastes and active mind; and furnishing to all an example 

 of (pialities which, if they were more common, would raake this a better and a 

 happier vsorld. 



Born IGth January 1803 : Hied at AVolfelee 1st March 1887. 



