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Coin Cabinet. 



During the year 87 coins were added to the Cabinet, of which 2 

 were of gold, 21 of silver, and 64 of copper. One of the gold coins was 

 presented by the Govt. N.-W. Provinces, all the rest were acquired 

 under the Treasure Trove Act, and were from the Bengal Presidency. 

 They all belong to ordinary types and detailed notices of them have 

 been given in the Proceedings for May, June and July. 



Office of the Secretaries. 



Dr. Hoernle carried on the duties of Philological Secretary until 

 June, when he went on leave and Major Sadler took them up until Sep- 

 tember when he left Calcutta temporarily and made them over to Dr. 

 Solf, who carried them on until the middle of December, when he was 

 obliged to leave India owing to ill health. Mr. Tawney has agreed to 

 carry on the work till Dr. Hoernle's return. 



Mr. Wood-Mason resigned the editorship of the Journal, Part II in 

 June and Mr. Sclater was appointed Natural History Secretary and 

 editor. He went on short leave in September, and Col. Waterhouse took 

 charge of the Journal during the interval. 



Dr. W. King carried on the duties of Treasurer during the year 

 except for two periods of about two months each, when he had to leave 

 Calcutta on duty, and Mr. Sclater took charge of the work. 



Mr. H. Ronaldson was Assistant- Secretary throughout the year. 



Mr. J. H. Elliott rejoined his post of Assistant-Librarian on the 

 expiry of his leave in March. There were no changes in the posts of 

 Cashier, Pandit and Copyist, which were held by the permanent incum- 

 bents Babu JSTritya Gopal Bose, Pandit Hari Mohan Vidyabhushan and 

 Babu Joges Chandra Chatterjee respectively. 



Bibliotheca Indica. 



Forty- five fasciculi were published during the jesiv, of which twelve 

 were in the Arabic-Persian, twenty-seven in the Sanskrit, and six in 

 the Tibetan series. They belong to twenty-one different works, of 

 which three are in the Arabic- Persian, fifteen in the Sanskrit, and three 

 in the Tibetan series. There was one new publication in each series, 

 viz. J the BiydzU'S-Saldh'n, in the first series, the Nydyavhidu Tihd (com- 

 plete in one fasciculus) in the second, and the Fag Sam Thi sin in 

 the third. Six works were completed of previous years, of which two, 

 the Tdfikh-i-Firuz Shdhi, and the Biydzu-s-Saldtin, belong to the Arabic- 

 Persian, and the Advaita Brahma Siddhi, the K^irma Purdna^ the 

 Manu Tihd SangraJia, and the Uvdsagadasdo to the Sanskrit series. 



It was stated in the Annual Report for 1890 (p. 22) that 44 fasci- 



