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upon ihe collections made by the Austrian Naturalists, attached to the 

 Novara expedition. These collections had been sent to him for publica- 

 tion by the Director of the Imperial Museum at Vienna. 



On the 12th November 1877, shortly after his Forest Flora had been 

 published, Kurz -left Calcutta on leave to visit the Straits Settlements. 

 He reached Penang on the 12th December, but was taken ill and died at 

 that place on the 15th January 1878, at the age of 43 years. An 

 uninterrupted residence in the tropics of 21 years and constant exposure 

 on his botanical explorations had undermined his constitution. His ardour 

 in the pursuit of Botany was irrepressible, and he rarely thought of health 

 or comfort on his expeditions. 



He was Member of several learned Societies ; his fellow Botanists in 

 England, the Continent of Europe and in India will mourn his loss, and 

 by many of his friends outside the circle of those interested in science, he 

 will long be remembered by his enthusiastic and single-minded devotion 

 to the science, which from early youth was the aim and object of his life. 



Mr. BLOCHMAK"T>r read an extract from a letter from Mr. Grierson on 

 the Eangpuri Grenitive. 



" I find I was wrong when I said that the Rangpuri " '^TT«r^TT" is 

 a double genitive. It is no such thing. I have traced it up here in collo- 

 quial "^^cT^T, which is evidently Prakrit «If ^ ^ and Sansk. 'gjfT. Hoernle 

 mentions this, but says that "^^T is only found in Tulsi Das, while here it 

 exists in every day talk. I think this fact is worth preserving, though 

 hardly worth making a separate paper about.*' 



Mr. Blochmann exhibited a unique gold coin struck by Jalal-uddin 

 Firuz Shah (II) of Dihli. He said — ' The coin which I now exhibit be- 

 longs to Mr. Jos. T. Tripe, of Dynechupra, Tirhut. Mr. Tripe, on his last 

 visit to Calcutta, shewed me about sixty or seventy gold coins belonging to 

 him. They were mostly gold-muhurs struck by the Emperor Akbar, in 

 splendid preservation, the specimens belonging to the years between 970 and 

 987 H. There were also several gold-muhurs struck by Shahjahan, a gold 

 tankah of Muhammad Shah Tughluq, and the Firuz Shahi now exhibited. 

 The remarks made by Mr. Thomas in his ' Chronicles of the Pathan kings,' 

 p. 144, lead me to believe that Mr. Tripe's coin is unique.' 



' Mr. Tripe has also since sent me a large collection of silver coins 

 struck by Sher Shah, Islam Shah, Muhammad Shah, Bahadur Shah, &c., 

 containing several new types, which I hope to lay before the next meeting. 

 The best thanks of the Society are due to Mr. Tripe for allowing these 

 coins to be exhibited. 



