18 Annual Report [Feb., 



Coin Cabinet. 



Large additions were made during the past year. Among them, 

 168 coins were purchased, the remainder being presentations. 



Among the purchased coins are 31 Rupees of the Bengal Sultans 

 Ilyas Shah and Sikandar Shah of various mintages, found in the villages 

 of Bir Gopalpur and Nasipur, Pargana Ambar, subdivision Pakour, 

 Sonthal Parganas ; 44 copper coins of the Dehli Sultan Firuz Shah II, 

 found at Fatehgarh, in the Furrukhabad District, N.-W. Prov. : 6 gold 

 Gupta coins, found in Madhubpore, Thana Jehannabad, District of 

 Hooghly ; 39 Rupees of various types of the Bengal Sultans Nasiru-d- 

 din Mahmud Shah I and Ruknu-d-din Barbak Shah, found near Daulat- 

 pur, in Thana Dewan Serai, Murshidabad District ; 3 Rupees of Shah 

 Ghazi, found at Hajipur, Muzaifarpur District ; 5 Rupees, of various 

 types, of Shahjehan and Jehangir found on the banks of the river 

 Dwarikeswar near Pithaipur, Thana Bishenpur, District Bankura; 11 

 Rupees of Ala-ud-din Muhammad Shah of Delhi and of Taj-ud-din 

 Firoz Shah of the Bahmani Dynasty, found in the fields of Mouzah 

 Karinja, Lanji Pergana, District Balaghat, Nagpur Division; 6 Rupees 

 of Muhammad Shah and Aurangzib, mint Bijapur, Surat and Golkunda, 

 found in the Raipur District, Chattisgarh Division ; 15 Rupees of Akbar 

 and Shahjehan, found in the Allahabad District ; 6 Hemidrachmas of 

 Menander, of four different types (viz. 3 of No. 14, 2 of No. 15, and 1 

 of No. 16, Ariana Ant. Plate III), also 2 Hemidrachmas of Antimachus 

 (type No. 11 in Ariana Ant., Plate II), all found in the Amritsar 

 District. 



Among the presentations there was a large collection of Buddhist 

 copper coins, found near Tumlook, and presented by the Tumlook Public 

 Library; one Indo-Sassanian coin from Munshi Debi Pershad ; and 4 

 Varaha coins, from the Collector of Bahraich. 



Secretary's Office. 



Dr. A. F. R. Hoernle'and Dr. H. W. M'Cann have continued to act 

 as Philological Secretary and General Secretary throughout the year. 

 Mr. J. Eliot resigned the Treasurership in July and was succeeded by 

 Mr. F. W. Peterson. Dr. J. Scully left Calcutta in February and Babu 

 P. N. Bose was in June appointed Natural History Secretary in his place. 

 Babu P. N. Bose was succeeded by Mr. L. de Niceville in October. 



Mr. W. A. Bion has continued to hold the post of Assistant Secre- 

 tary and Babu Nritya Gopal Basu that of Cashier throughout the year. 

 Mr. E. S. Andrews resigned the Assistant Librarianship in May and Mr. 

 A. S. Tiery was appointed in his place. Mr. Tiery held the post till the 



