1885.] Annual Beport. 21 



Coin Cabinet. 



The additions to the Cabinet have been very few in 1884, the total 

 number of coins added being 25, viz. 5 gold and 20 silver. All were 

 purchased at a total cost of Rs. 140, no coin having been presented 

 during the past year. 



Of the 5 gold coins, found at Ohindwarrah, Nerbudda district. Cen- 

 tral Provinces, one was of the reign of Alamgir II, Aziz-ud-din, two 

 others of the reign of Aurangzib, dates 1106 and 1110, the fourth and 

 fifth of the reign of Muhammad Shah of the year 1144 and 11(43). 

 All these are apparently new or unpublished types, except the last 

 which is described in Marsden's Numismata Orientalia, p. 667 No. 

 DCCCCXXI. 



Of the silver coins, eight were of Menander found in a Jahrian village, 

 In the Amritsar division ; five were of the common so-called Indo-Sassa- 

 nian kind, found at Fatehgurh and seven were of Rafi-ud-derjat and 

 Farakhsir, found at Etawah. 



Secretary's Ofiace. 



In June 1884, the Society sustained a great loss by the death of Dr. 

 W. H. McOann, their General Secretary. Mr. F. E. Pargiter was ap- 

 pointed in his place and has continued to hold it since. 



Mr. "Wood- Mason returned from Europe in May, and resumed charge 

 of the office of Natural History Secretary from Mr. L. de Niceville, who 

 had been appointed to officiate in October 1883. 



Dr. Hoernle, the Society's Philological Secretary, was absent on 

 three months' leave from April to July, and Mr. C. H. Tawney officiated 

 during the interval. 



Mr. F. W. Peterson has continued to act as Treasurer throughout 

 the year. 



Mr. W. A. Bion, the Assistant Secretary was absent on seven months' 

 leave from April to October, during which period Mr. J. F. Duplessis 

 was appointed to officiate for him. Mr. Bion returned in November, but 

 in December resigned the service for better prospects elsewhere, when 

 Mr. Duplessis was appointed to fill the vacancy permanently. 



Mr. J. H. Elliott has held the post of Assistant Librarian throughout 

 the year, Babu Nritya Gopal Basu that of Cashier and Babu Amrita Lai 

 Das that of Copyist. 



Bibliotheca Indica. 



Twenty-six fasciculi were published during the year : nine in the 

 Arabic-Persian Series and seventeen in the Sanskrit Series. They be- 

 long to thirteen different works, of which three a;re in the former 



