122 'Furcliaae of Coins. [ Jtjlt & August, 



The following gentlemen have intimated their desire to withdraw 

 from the Society — 



A. W. Garrett, Esq. 

 Babu Sreenatb Chunder. 

 Babu Judav Chandra Goswami. 

 Lieut. -Col. K. de Bourbel. 



The Council reported that Colonel A. C. Toker had been elected a 

 member of the Philological Committee and Mr. Amir Ali a member of the 

 History and Archaeology Committee. 



The Council reported that Mr. J. Eliot had resigned the Honorary 

 Treasurership of the Society as he was going on leave and that Mr. F. W. 

 Peterson had kindly consented to undertake the duties of Treasurer. 



The Council reported that they had learnt through Dr. Sprenger and 

 Mr. Grote of the existence of a new MS. of the Isabah in the Khedivian 

 Library at Cairo, and that they were endeavouring to obtain through 

 Government either the loan or a transcript of it for the Society's edition 

 of the work in the Bibliotheca Indica. 



Dr. Sprenger writes : 



" In the Catalogue of the Khedivian Library at Cairo printed in A. H. 

 1289 occurs in p. 35 a copy of the Isaba (Biographical Dictionary of 

 persons who knew Muhammad) in six parts. I think at this moment either 

 the loan of this copy, or at least a transcript, might be obtained by the 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal, for completing the edition commenced by me. 



" The book contains so many proper names and dates that the acquisi- 

 tion of another copy would be useful even for those parts which are pub- 

 lished or of which there is a Manuscript in Calcutta, for it is very desirable 

 that as many Manuscripts as are procurable be compared and the variants 

 and necessary corrections be added at the end." 



The Secretaey reported that the following Coins had been acquired 

 under the Treasure Trove Act : 



44 copper coins found at Fatehgarh, in the Furrukhabad District, 

 North-West Provinces : 



G gold coins found in Madhubpore, Thana Jehanabad, District of 

 Hooghly : 



39 silver coins found to the north of Doulutpore in^Thana Dewan, 

 Serai, Murshidabad District. 



Regarding this purchase of coins, the Philological Secretary remarked : 



The Gui^ta coins all belong to well-known types, but some of those 

 purchased by me were not in the Society's collection, while others showed 



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