XXViil Annual Address. [February, 1915. 
so much appears as to show that the tentative reading —abad 
Pina—no longer holds: the last three letters are ~,) not &J—. 
types for the most part. Mr. Brown has written a note on 
these which will appear in the Numismatic Supplement in due 
course. : 
The finds on the whole appear to have been exceptionally 
good, and the Nagpur collection, especially the Mughal section, 
has been substantially enriched. 
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Hon’ble Justice Sir Asutosh Mukhopadhyaya, Kt., 
Senior Vice-President, delivered an address to the Society. 
Annual Address, 1915, 
Your ExceLiency, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, 
I do not use the language of conventional courtesy 
when I say that I deem it a high honour to be permitted, m 
m i i nu 
survey of the activities of our scholars and investigators 
during the last twelve months. 
It is satisfactory to note that the numerical strength of 
the Society has been fairly maintained during the last year. 
even years ago, there was a rapid rise on account of the 
large accession of strength to the newly founded medical 
section, and the maximum was reached in 1911. Since then, 
there has been, as might have been expected, a slow decline, 
and during the last year, we had on our rolls precisely a8 
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many members as in . This circumstance has slightly 
affected our financial situation; but, happily, there is n0 
ground for alarm or anxiety. e popularity of the Society 
many of our members are absent in Europe to take part in 
the titanic struggle between militarism and civilization, which 
