118 Dak'ldn and Bengal Coins. [July, 



The following gentlemen have intimated their desire to withdi*aw from 

 the Society — 



J. A. Briggs, Esq., (on leaving India). 



J. Smith, Esq., C. S. 



F. N. Macnamara, Esq., M. D. 



The President reported that the Council recommend that His Excel- 

 lency the Viceroy be solicited to accept the office of Patron of the Society, 

 now vacant by the lamented assassination of the late Lord Mayo. 



He remarked that the office had been held by previous Governors 

 General almost uninterruptedly from the time of Warren Hastings, and there 

 was no reason why the precedent should be departed from on this occasion, 

 but every reason why the Society should pay Lord Northbrook the compli- 

 ment of asking him to become their Patron. 



The proposal was carried unanimously. 



The President announced that the Council had resolved on changing the 

 London agency of the Society, and that they had appointed Messrs. Triibner 

 and Co. of Paternoster Row, sole agents, from the 1st January, 1873, for 

 the sale of the Society's publications, and for conducting the general agency 

 of the Society, instead of Messrs. Williams and Norgate. The Council for 

 sometime past have had reason to be dissatisfied with the manner in which 

 the duties of the agency had been carried out. Messrs. Triibner and Co. 

 are a well known firm of large experience in duties of the kind, and the 

 Council trust that by the change the publications of the Society may become 

 more extensively known and circulated. 



Mr. Wood-Mason exhibited several Andamanese w^eapons and utensils | 

 and made some remarks on the relations of the tribes inhabiting these islands. 



Colonel H. Hyde exhibited two Dak'hin and one Bengal silver coins. 

 Mr. Blochmann said — 



The coins are rate. The Bengal silver rupee belongs to the reign of 

 Bahadur Shah Sur, and bears the year 967, A. H. Marsden gives a figure ' 

 of it. 



The two Dak'hin coins refer to the reign of 'Alauddin Ahmad Shah 

 (II.), a Bahmani King, and appear to bear the year 860, A. H. The first 

 two numerals are clear. Mr. Thomas in his ' Chronicles of the Pathan Kings' 

 (p. 313), describes a specimen belonging to General Cunningham as ' very 

 rare ;' but his reading of the obverse, to judge from his wood-cut and Co- 

 lonel Hyde's specimens; is wrong. The legend is — 



