80 Announcements. " [Dec, 



The President announced : — 



1. That the Hon. Mr. Justice Asufosh Mnkhopadhyaya and Dr. 

 E. D. Ross, having returned to Calcutta had taken over charge of the 

 duties of Treasurer and Anthropological Secretary from Mr. W. K. 

 Dods and Mr. J. Macfarlane, respectively. 



2. That Dr. Ross had been appointed to officiate as Philological 

 Secretary during the absence of Dr. T. Bloch. 



3. That Mr. N. Annandale had been appointed Anthropological 

 Secretary in the place of Dr. Ro.ss. 



The General Secretary read a report on a find of 6 coins forwarded 

 by the Deputy Commissioner of Saugor with his letter No. 2296, dated 

 23rd Jane 1904, under the Treasure Trove Act. 

 The finds consists of: — 



Rupee of Shahjahan of Tatta mint ... ... 1 



Rupees of Aurangzeb of Surat mint ... ... 3 



Rupee of Khambay (Cambay) mint ... ... 1 



Rupee of Lucknow mint ... ... ... 1 



6 



The General Secretary reported the presentation of the following 

 coins : — 



9 coins from the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, for- 

 warded with their letter dated 26th September, 1904. 



1 coin from the Deputy Commissioner of Bhandara, forwarded with 

 his letter No. 3979, dated 30th September, 1904. 



4 coins from the Government of United Provinces, forwarded with 



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October and 7th November, 1904. 



The Philological Secretary read an abstract relative to the Four- 

 teenth International Congress of Orientalists to be held at Algiers in 

 April, 1905. 



The Oriental Congress, which met at Hamburg in 1902, fixed on 

 Algiers as the meeting-place of the 15th Congress, and this is to take 

 place in ]905 during the Easter holidays, under the patronage of the 

 Governor- General of Algeria. 



Officers. 



President. — M. Rene Basset, Directeur de I'ficole Superieure des Lettres 

 d' Alger, 77 rue Michelet, Mustapha, Algiers. 



