1897.] Dr. Hoernle — Ue'port on old coins. 7o: 



It is proposed that the income of the Victoria Fund should be applied 

 to the advancement of all branches of science in all parts of the British 

 Empire. Should, therefore, the project of the Fund be approved, and 

 the Fund established, its administration will necessitate an organization, 

 the details of which will need most careful consideration in order that 

 the Fund may be used in the best way in all future times ; but such 

 details may be left for the present. 



Meanwhile, the first step to be taken is to ascertain whether the 

 proposal meets with such general acceptance among men of science as to 

 justify the President and Council in proceeding further in the matter. 



I have therefore been requested by my Council to ask you to be so good 

 as to bring the subject before your Society at your earliest convenience, 

 in order to ascertain whether the proposal is approved or not, and at the 

 same time to give the Royal Society the benefit of the advice of your 

 Society upon the whole matter. 



I am. 



Faithfully yours, 

 < Signed ) LISTER, 



President of the Royal Society, 

 To the President of the 



Asiatw Society of Bengal, 



Calcutta. 



The President reported that the Council recommended the accep- 

 tance of the proposal. 



The proposal was accordingly accepted. 



Dr. Hoernle read reports on the following finds of Treasure Trove 

 coins ! — 



( I) Report on 42 old coins forwarded by the Deputy Commissioner 

 of Angul, Orissa, with his No. 184iG, dated 2Ist November, 1896, and 

 with the Commissioner of Cattack's No. 1429R, dated 28th September, 

 1896. 



The Deputy Commissioner of Angul, in his No. 1407G, dated 

 I5th August, 1896, and addressed to the Commissioner of Orissa reports, 

 that these coins, together with some gold and silver bars enclosed in 

 a cup-shaped copper vessel, were found by a lad, while grazing cattle 

 on some " toilu " land in Pargana Talmiil, Mauzah Ara, in Ara, in Angul. 

 The date of finding is not stated. 



Of the coins, 20 are of gold and 22 of silver. Most of them are of 

 a rare kind, which gives the find a particular numismatic value. 



