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which shillings were struck : first in 1763, when such coins to the value*of 

 £100 were struck to be thrown among the crowd on tlie entering of the 

 Earl of Northumberland as Viceroy into Dublin, and hence known as " Nor- 

 thumberland shillings :" th<gn in 1793 a few were struck, and not again 

 until 1816, when the silver coinage was reformed, and from tliat date to 

 1820, inclusive, shillings were coined yearly. But the part of Mr. llod- 

 gers's paper which was the most interesting was that on the " Nuthars'* 

 as he called them, small silver pieces made for the purpose of throwing 

 among tlie crowd on important occasions. He, the Chairman, had not 

 heard of such before, and he hoped Mr Rodgers would be able soon to 

 give the Society drawings, which might appear in the Proceedings. 



Nawab Abdool Luteef Khan, Bahadoor, mentioned that the wordyli 

 is commonly pronounced Nisdr, and means " money which is thrown 

 amongst the people at marriages and on other festive occasions." The 

 custom of distributing pieces of money among the crowd was still kept up 

 by rich Muhammadan families at wedding festivals, and he described one 

 of these ceremonies which took place at Moorshedabad, about 20 years ago, 

 when the sons of the late Nawab Ali Nucky Khan of Lucknow were mar- 

 ried to the daughters of His Highness the Nawab Nazim of Bengal, at 

 which marriage he was himself present. When the bridegrooms were 

 proceeding to the house of the brides in grand procession, pieces of gold 

 and silver were scattered among the crowd from the back of the elephants 

 on which the bridegrooms were seated. 



5. Some further results of Sun-thermometer Ohservafions, with reference 

 to Atmospheric Ahsorption and the supposed variation of the Solar 

 Heat.— By H. F. Blanfoed, F. li. S. 



Owing to the lateness of the hour, this paper was postponed to next 

 meeting. 



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IBRARY. 



The following additions have been made to the Library since the 

 Meeting held in December last. 



Transactions, Proceedings and Joui^nals, 

 presented ly the respective Societies and Editors. 

 Baltimore. Johns Hopkins University, — American Journal of Mathema- 

 tics, Vol. V, No. 1. 

 Bordeaux. Societe de Geographie Commerciale; — Bulletin, Nos. 17-18. 



