92 Muhammadon Inscriptions. [May, 



Mr. BLOCHMAinsr exhibited a further batch of Muhammadan Inscrip- 

 tions. 



(1) From Mr. Delmerick's Dihli rubbings, three inscriptions of A.H. 

 1012, 1063, 1068, of the reigns of Akbar, Shahjahan and Aurangzib. 

 The first is taken frona the tomb of Mirza Muzaffar. 



(2) From Mr. Dehiierick's Hi9ar Firuzah rubbings, four inscriptions, 

 dated 892, 927, 931, 944, H. 



(3) From Mr. F. L. Beaufort, C. S., a reading and translation of the 

 inscription of a large cannon in the Jinsi-Topkhanah, Murshidabad. The 

 gun was cast at Dhaka in A. H. 1017, or A. D. 1632. 



The test and translations of these inscriptions will be published nest 

 month. 



Mr. Wood-Masow read the following extract from a letter from 

 Mr. S. E. Peal of Sibsagar, Assam, 



" While out with an Assamese lately in the jungles, whistling for deer 

 we came on a place all swamp and dug up by I^iffs looking for fisliy 



" Did you know this as a custom ? it seems (on enquiry) quite correct. 

 Jackals also are destroying all the sugar-cane plantations about here. I am 

 pestered for loan of guns or powder to shoot them. This is so bad west., i. e., 

 Golaghat and Gauhati, that high fences have to be made to save the canes," 

 and stated that the wild pigs of the Andaman Island repaired daily at low 

 water to the sea-shore in search of Crustacea, fish, and other animals. 



Mr. "W. T. Blanpoed said that the carnivorous habits of wild pigs 

 were well known. Mr. Peal has given us no details in this case, but he has 

 doubtless satisfied himself that the ground he mentions was turned up by 

 pigs in search of fish, and not of roots. The margins of tanks and of 

 marshes are always found more or less dug up wherever wild pigs occur, 

 but this is usually done in order to enable the animals to feed on the roots 

 of water plants. 



Jackals are largely frugivorous, and often feed entirely on the fruit 

 of the ber (Zizyplms) and their partiality for sugarcane has been noticed 

 before. In fact many animals are far less exclusively herbivorous or carni- 

 vorous in their habits than is generally suj^posed. 



The Council reported that they had elected Mr. W. T. Blanf ord, a Vice- 

 President of the Society in the place of the Hon'ble E. C. Bayley, C. S. I., 

 who had been appointed President. 



The Chairmajst announced that the Council had sanctioned the purchase 

 of a selection from the Coins belonging to the late Colonel Guthrie, to the 

 amount of Rs. 2000-0-0. 



