104 Death of Sir E. C. Bayleij. [June, 



The Vice-President then announced the death of Sir E. C. Bayley, 

 K. C. S. I., and said — 



I have to bring before "the notice of the meeting the sad news of the 

 death of an old member of this Society, Sir Edward Clive Bayley. He 

 was President of the Society in 1863, 1864, 1866, 1875 and 1877 and 

 Vice-President in 1872, 1874 and 1876. He took an active part in the 

 discussions of the Society, and was a frequent contributor to the Journal. 

 An account of his papers will be found in the forthcoming Centenary 

 Review in the chapters on Antiquities, Coins, Ancient Indian Alphabets 

 and History. 



From information supplied by Mr. Tawney I have to add that, when 

 he retired to England, he continued his Palseographie and Numis- 

 matic researches, publishing two pamphlets on the Genealogy of Modern 

 Numerals and one on certain dates occurring on the coins of the Hindu 

 Kings of Cabul expressed in tl\e Gupta era, and in Arabic or quasi- Arabic 

 numerals. 



Mr. Tawney truly adds that those members of our Society who had 

 the privilege of his acquaintance will remember the graceful urbanity of 

 his manners, in which the modesty of the true scholar was combined with 

 the courtesy of the high-bred gentleman. I am sure that the meeting 

 will sympathise with the Council in their sorrow for his loss. 



The following papers were read : — ■ 



1. Descriptions of some new Asiatic Diurnal Lepidoptera, chiefly 

 from Specimens contained in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. — By F. Moore, 

 F. Z. S., A. L. S. Communicated by the Natural History Secretary. 



The paper will be published in Part II of the Journal. 



2. Notes from Varaha Mihira's Panchasiddhdntika. — By G. Thibaut, 

 Ph. D. Part I. The mean motions of the Planets according to the Surya 

 and Pomaha Siddhcmta. 



(Abstract.) 

 The Panchasiddhantika by the famous Varaha Mihira (the author 

 of the Brihatsanhita) is perhaps the most interesting among the hitherto 

 unpublished astronomical writings of the Hindus, as it gives a kind of 

 abstract of some of the old Siddhantas which have not come down to our 

 time and allows of a closer insight, than has been hitherto possible, into 

 the genesis of modern Hindu astronomy and its dependence on Greek 

 science. Two MSS. of the work have been found of late years by Dr. 

 Biihler, but as they are exceedingly incorrect and do not comprise a com- 

 mentary on this very difficult work, a satisfactory edition of the entire 

 book is perhaps not feasible as yet. Meanwhile the writer of the present 



