174 Obituary Notice, [June, 



"in the reign of the Amir, the protector of the divine faith " (dayyan, 

 lit. 'judge,' being one of the names of God). This is evidently the 

 originally intended wording of this much disputed legend; and Dr. 

 Hoernle's remarks (I. c. p. 115) should be corrected accordingly.] 



(2), New variety of same type; date 959, al-hamt of 

 obv, is divided so that alhd stands on proper 

 right side, and viz on proper left side ... 1 : 40 



Muhammad Shah (A.H. 960-964 = A.D. 1552-1556) : 



(1 ) Usual type, as in Journal As. Soc. of Bengal, I. c. 



p. 167, Type I. Dates 96 1& ; 9623 ; others illegible 10 



(2) Small size, legends uncertain ... ... 6: 16 



Two coins among this lot were too much worn off to 



be identified with certainty ,,. ... 2 



Total ... 107 



XIV. Report on 39 old silver rupees, forwarded by Collector of 

 Saran District, with his No. 311-G., dated 7th May, 1898. 



The coins are reported to have been found in a village called Mitha- 

 dur in the Chapra Thana of Saran District, while a well was being 

 pug, in May, 1897. They are all rupees of the Mu gh al Emperor Shah 

 Alam IT. (A.H. 1173-1221 = A. D. 1759-1806) of the 'Azimabad (Patna) 

 Mint, struck in the regnal years 7, 8 and 9 : viz., 11 coins of year 7 ; 

 10 coins of year 8 ; and 18 coins of year 9 ; type as in Brit. Mus. Cat., 

 No. 1166. 



The Philological Secretary contributed the following obituary 

 notice of the death of Dr. George Biihler, an Honorary Member of the 

 Society. 



Dr. George Biihler, an Honorary Member of the Society, whose 

 death has been reported at the last meeting, was born on the 19th June, 

 1837 in Borstel, a small country-place in Hannover. He studied in 

 Gofctingen under Benfey Sanskrit and Comparative Philology, and took 

 his degree of Ph. D. in 1858. He then went first to Paris and later on 

 to England where he was employed for some time as an assistant in the 

 Queen's private Library in Windsor. In 1863, he was appointed 

 Professor of Oriental Languages in the Elphinstone College in Bombay, 

 in 1866 Superintendent of Sanskrit Studies in the Deccan College in 

 Poona, and later on Educational Inspector in Gajarat. In 1880, when 

 he resigned his Indian Service, the University of Vienna selected him 

 for the newly created professorship of Sanskrit ; he was made an 



