120 F. S. Growse — Note on antiquities found at Bulandshahr, [July, 



The following Gentleman, duly proposed and seconded at the last 

 meeting, was elected an Ordinary Member of the Society : 

 * Prince Firukh Shah. 



The following Gentleman is a candidate for election at the next 

 meeting : 



H. C. Barstow, Esq., C. S., Magistrate and Collector, Cawnpore, pro- 

 posed by H. Rivett-Carnac, Esq., C. S., seconded by Dr. G. Thibaut. 



The Council announced that the report of the Auditors of the 

 Society's Accounts had been received, and that the suggestion of the 

 Auditors, that the stock of Books be not entered as an Asset, had been 

 approved. 



Dr. Hoernle exhibited a wax impression of a curious old seal of 

 baked clay, found by Mr. Growse at Bulandshahr, and read the following 

 note on the same and on the vases exhibited at the last meeting by Mr. 

 Growse : 



" My excavations at the Moti Bagh are still in progress and this 

 morning the workmen turned up a curious old seal of baked clay, of which 

 I enclose an impression. The oval is divided by two parallel lines into 

 two equal compartments, in the upper of which are two devices, the one 

 a conch shell, the other — which is raised on a little stand — looks like a wing 

 and may possibly be intended for a chakwd. In the lower compartment 

 is a name in early characters, probably of about the 5th century A. D., which 

 I read as Sattila. 



I have no doubt now that the vases exhibited at the last meeting 

 are the finials of miniature Buddhist stupas, such as are not unfrequently 

 found in old kheras. At first I looked upon them as too modern to allow 

 of this suggestion holding good ; but this discovery, on the same spot and 

 at no greater depth, first of a Buddhist sculpture with an inscription in 

 characters of about the 8th century A. D., and now of this seal which may 

 be some 2 or 3 centuries older still, renders it probable that they too may 

 be referred to a period equally remote, when Buddhism was the predomi- 

 nant religion of the neighbourhood." 



Mr. Ball exhibited an ancient stone implement made of magnetic 

 iron ore, and said that he was indebted for it to Mr. W. G. Olpherts, 

 to whom it had been sent simply as a specimen of iron ore. Its history 

 had not yet been fully ascertained but it was believed to have been 

 obtained somewhere in the Narbada valley. 



