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I take this opportunity of noting that as I find that Col. Tytler's 

 name " affinis'' for the Andaman Paroquet, which I have recently shown 

 to be distinct from erythrogenys, Blj^th, from the Nicobars, cannot stand, 

 that name having already been assigned by Mr. Gould to another species of 

 the same genus, I have named the Andaman bird, P. Tytleri in memory of 

 my late friend who did so much towards the elucidation of the avi-fauna of 

 the Andaman Islands. 



May, &h, 1874. 



The following papers were read. 



1. Notes on a hoard 0/^543 Sassaniaii Coins in the possession of Col. H. 



Hyde, B. JE.—By the Hon'ble E. C. Bayley, C. S. I. 

 This paper will be published in the Journal, Part I. 



2. Memorandiom on the Operations of the Archodological Survey for season 



1873-74. By Major General A. Cunningham, E. E., C. S. I. 



During the working season which is just now closed, the greater part 

 of the Central Provinces has been explored by my assistant Mr. Beglar and 

 myself, he taking the Eastern half and [ the Western half — the division 

 being broadly marked by the high road through Jabalpur and Seoni to 

 Nagpur. 



At Jabalpur we examined together the old temple at Bhera Ghat, 

 overhanging the marble rocks. The present temple is small, and apparently 

 a re-construction of part only of the original building ; but the circular 

 colonnade which surrounds the temple, with its long line of female statues, 

 all of life-size, is one of the most curious and perfect specimens of Hindu 

 architecture that I have yet met with. The temple and its surrounding 

 statues are dedicated to the worship of Siva ; but from the discovery of a 

 single small statue with the well known Buddhist creed, Ye Dharmma hetio, 

 Sfe., inscribed on the pedestal, I have little doubt that this circular colon- 

 nade must originally have enclosed a Buddhist stupa. Each of the female 

 statues has the name engraved on the pedestal, and from the shapes of the 

 letters of these records I would assign the destruction of the Buddhist 

 works and the establishment of the Saiva temple to the ninth or tenth 

 century. 



To the north of Jabalpur I explored the ruined temples of Bilahari 

 and of Karnpur near Kari Talai, and obtained good copies of tlie Asoka 

 inscription on the rock at Eupnath. Through the kindness of Mr. C. Grant, 

 Commissioner of Jabalpur, I obtained two copper plate inscriptions contain- 

 ing a land grant of Eaja Jayanatha, dated in Sam vat 174, which were found 

 at Karnpur. 



To the west of Jabalpur I explored the decayed city of Burhanpur, where 

 I made plans of the Jami and Bibi Masjids — the former being one of the 

 finest Muhammadan buildings in India. It contains a long inscription of 



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