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46. NUMISMATIC SUPPLEMENT No. IX. 
Note.—The numeration of the article below is continued 
from p, 592 of the ‘‘ Journal and Proceedings ’’ for 1907, 
Catalogue of the Ooins in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, includ- 
ing the Cabinet of the Asiatic Society of Bengal: Vol. III, Mughal 
Emperors of India, by H. Netson Wriaat, 1.C.S., pages Ixxxiv— 
360: Ozford, Clarendon Press, 1908. 
8.—The List of Coins in the Indian Museum, compiled by 
the late Mr. C. J. Rodgers, and gg pi at Calcutta in 1894, 
could not possibly be regarded as in any sense an adequate 
or final presentment of the contents of the Museum Cabinets. 
In the preparation of that list Mr. eee: laboured under 
conditions of exceptional difficulty, In a letter in my possession 
he mentioned: “ When I look back upon the weak Thad to give to 
this Catalogue I am astonished I ever finished it. Imagine about 
7,000 coins, all iggledy-piggledy. They had to be arranged with 
mbers. I w 
tively. It aks me two aes “3 constant work. It had all to 
be written three times before things came into order.” These 
brave efforts notwithstanding, the final result left much to be 
esired. The illustrations were few and poorly executed; the 
failed to indicate the mgement of the si si 
That the List, depike its defects, has during sa pe fourteen 
years proved serviceable, all collectors of India Mughal Coins 
will gratefully testify ; but that it was a en worthy of 
the noble Museum in Ca cutta, no one would for a moment 
It thus became in every way Svaitadilg. and especially in view 
of the large additions recently made, that the work of arranging 
and registering coins should undertaken entirely de novo, 
and that a complete and illustrated Catalogue, as distinct from a 
bare List, should be prepar lication within th 
of the Mughal Emperors of India, from Babar a 
the Trustees of that Museum have now at length Sesicably 
supplied this long-felt want. They were fortunate in securing 
the services of Mr. H. Nelson Wright, L.C.S., for the compilation 
of the Pg re and did well in having it printed at the Claren- 
don Press, Oxford. The illustrations, twenty-two large beautiful 
Plates, and the Map of India, showing the Mint-towns, add im- 
mensely to the numismatic value of the work. It is not too 
