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were S. Indian, one (copper) Pathan, seven (silver) Mughal ; 

 The remainder consisted of five larins, one rupee of Tipu 

 Sultan, one rupee of the French East India Company and one 

 Venetian ducat. 



None of the coins was of any exceptional interest. 



The Numismatic Secretary examined and reported on 

 431 coins, the result of proceedings under the Treasure Trov< 

 Act. 



Search for Arabic and Persian Manuscripts. 



During the year, the policy adopted last year of applying 

 this Fund to ascertaining the existence and whereabouts of 

 rare and interesting MSS. in lieu of purchasing has been 

 maintained. With this object in view the First Travelling 

 Maulavi visited four libraries at Lucknow and one at Benares, 

 and also examined the stocks of several MSS. dealers at 

 Cawnpur and Lucknow. 



Notes on these MSS. consisting of short bibliographical 

 accounts have been prepared and will be sent to the press 

 shortly. In this connection and in that of advising regarding 

 the search for MSS. generally, Maulavi M. Hedayat Husain, 

 who was for several years himself First Travelling Maulavi. 

 has offered to assist the Society, and he has been appointed 

 as Honorary Assistant to the Officer-in- Charge of the Arabic 

 and Persian MS. Search. 



Khan Bahadur Shams-ul-ulama Maulavi Ahmed Abdul 

 Aziz of Hyderabad presented sixty-nine volumes of Persian and 

 \rabic books to the Government collection. 



Bardie Chronicles. 



No tour was undertaken during the course of the year as 

 the funds placed at the disposal of the Society by the Govern- 

 ment of India were exhausted. The officer-in-charge was 

 engaged in drawing up the report of the operation for the past 

 four years, passing it through the press, and having it adopted 

 by the Society. The scheme for future work as foreshadowed 

 in the report is under consideration of the Council of the 

 Society along with other philological expenditure. It will be 

 submitted to the Government of India very soon. In the mean- 

 time Government proposes to appoint Signor L. P. Tessitori, a 

 young Italian scholar, who has made Guzerati and the dialects 

 of Western Rajputana his special study, on a salary of Rs. 500 

 a month experimentally for a year to edit the works on chroni- 

 cles collected by the search. 



The report which has been submitted gives a history of 

 the operations since 1904 when the Government of India asked 

 for a preliminary report on the subject and formulates a scheme 

 for future operations. It contains the following appendice 



