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them they became the property of the Banker and from him they were pro- 

 cured for me by Rao Bahadur Trimulrao. 



These corns were used daily in the worship, one part of which consisted 

 in bathing the idols with milk, curds, ghi, sugar, honey, fruit, then'water, 

 and finally with gold : this latter act was performed by pouring gold pieces 

 over the idol's head. The result of this for many years accounts for the 

 battered appearance these three pieces have, but it is evidence of their 

 antiquity — they, it is said, had been handed down from the foundation of 

 the math about 900 or 1000 years ago. 



A brass casting of the arms of the old East India Company found by 

 Mr. T. A. M. Gennoe in a Hindu Temple in the Faizabad District, N.-W. 

 P., was exhibited, and the following memorandum by Mr. H. Rivett-Car- 

 nac read on the subject : 



I forward to the Society a brass casting of the arms of the old East 

 India Company sent to me by Mr. T. A. M. Gennoe of Faizabad, who 

 found it occupying a position in a Hindu temple under the circumstances 

 noticed in the extract from his letter enclosed. The casting in all proba- 

 bility once ornamented some regimental big drum of former days, and the 

 attention paid to it in this temple was apparently not so much due to its 

 being symbolical of " Jan Compani Bahadur" or a mysteriously directing 

 No. I, but the chance resemblance of the rampant heraldic lions to some 

 brass backs of shrines sometimes met with in Hindu bazaars. 

 Extract from Mr. Gennoe's letter referred to : 



" I am sending you the armorial bearings of the old East India 

 Company which I found in a temple dedicated to Bharata, where, along 

 with several Hindu idols, it was worshipped, the men told me, for 

 ever so many years as a Hindu deity. It used to be bathed and anointed 

 with sandal wood every day with the rest of the Murats with all the 

 customary formulae of the daily Hindu ritual. The old Mahunt was quite 

 pleased with his possession, and refused at first to allow me to touch it, but 

 I was able to convince him that the so-called deity was the escutcheon of 

 the Sirhar Company. He then gave it to me. It is an interesting relic 

 of the exotic phase of Hindu worship. I think therefore it is worthy of 

 translation from the niche of Bharata's temple to a Museum." 



Some Geological specimens received from Prof. Dr. Fischer, Freiburgh 

 in Baden, and forwarded by Mr. H. Riyett-Carnac were exhibited, and 

 the following note by Mr. Rivett-Carnac read : — 



Dr. Fischer of Freiburgh has been good enough to send me some geo- 

 logical specimens, which may be of interest to the Society. 



They consist of fragments of nephrite from Turkestan (white) and 

 from Siberia and New Zealand (green), and one small piece of Burmese 

 pde which must be well known in India. 



