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Tkeeoo, an island about 5 niiles south. Illustrated Catalogues (Nos. 1 

 and 2) of the coins of Mysore and of the Roman, Tndo- Portuguese, and 

 Ceylon coins, contained in the Museum collections were issued, and 

 Mr. Thurston was engaged upon a history of the Coinage of the East 

 India Company, from the first issue of coins, the portcullis money of 

 Queen Elizabeth in 1601, to the passing of Act No. XIII of 1862. 

 A great deal of interesting information on this subject was found in 

 going through the records of the Madras Mint. 



The Journals of the different Asiatic and Numismatic Societies 

 have brought us some very interesting papers. Our own Journal has 

 two papers, by Mr. Chas. J. Rodgers, on the " Couplets or baits on the 

 coins of Shah Nuru-d-din Jahangir " and " on Coins after the time of 

 Jahangir," and another paper by Mr. E. E. Oliver, " on the Coins of 

 the Chagatai Mughals " "will shortly be published. The Madras Journal 

 of Literature and Science contains a paper by the Rev. James E. Tracy 

 " on Pandyan Coins," and a continuation of Captain R. H. C. Tufnell's 

 useful " Hints to Coin-collectors in Southern India." In the Journal 

 of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Mr. 0. Codrino-ton 

 contributes a paper " on coins of Kachh and Kathiawar ;" and a very 

 important paper by Dr. Gerson da Cunha, on the " gold coins of the 

 Mongol dynasty of Persia," will shortly be published in it. The gold 

 coins of the Persian Mongols are very rare. Hitherto only 20 specimens 

 have been catalogued and published. Dr. da Cunha now promises to 

 publish 40 new coins from his own. cabinet. The Numismatic Chronicle 

 of England continues to hold its high place. Among its many valuable 

 articles, I will only draw your attention to two which are of special 

 interest to students of Indian coins. One is a paper by Professor Percy 

 Gardner on some " New Greek coins of Bactria and India," which 

 describes a curious decadrachm, supposed to be of Eukratides or Heli- 

 okles, and a few new didrachms of Diomedes, Strato, Philoxenos and 

 Hermaios. The other is a paper by Major-General Sir A. Cunningham 

 on "coins of the Indo-Scythian king Maiis or Heraiis," in which he 

 shows that this person was not a king of the S'akas but of the Kushans. 

 I have also to note another of Mr. Stanley Lane-Poole's welcome coin 

 catalogues. This is the " catalogue of the Muhammadan coins preserved 

 in the Bodleian Library at Oxford," enumerating a total of 951 coins of 

 Muhammadan dynasties in Europe, Asia and Africa. 



Archeology and Epigraphy. 



The past year has been specially fruitful in Archaeological work, 



interest in which shows no sign of decline, but, on the contrary, appears 

 to have revived, if we may judge by the appearance of new publications, 



