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kacha (cf. Ariana Antigua, Plate XIII, Nos. 11, 12, 20, reverses, and 

 Plate XVIII, No. 14) . Their coins, therefore, show a type intermediate 

 between the Indo- Scythians and Guptas, and may be dated, as Gen. 

 Cunningham says {Arch. Rep., Vol. XIV, p. 141), " about the third 

 century A. D., shortly after the decline of the Indo-Scythian power, and 

 during the early period of the Gupta sway." This is confirmed by the 

 character of the letters of the inscriptions which are of the earlier Gupta 

 type. It is further confirmed by the character of the language of the 

 inscriptions which is the same as that used in the Mathura inscriptions 

 belonging to the time of the later Indo-Scythian kings. 



I have only to add that there are three seals which have no inscrip- 

 tions at all, but only some figure or emblem. On one there is the figure 

 of a lion on guard ; on another a humped bull recumbent ; on the third 

 a large ornamental trisul. 



One seal, I may add, shows the curious name of Jujja. It is 

 inscribed on the obverse with S'ri-Jujjasya, on the reverse with Rudra- 

 sarma. On both sides there is, in addition, the trisul emblem of S'iva. 

 S'ri-jujjasya is another specimen of the ancient North Western Prakrit ; 

 it is the equivalent of the Sanskrit S'ri-yujyasya or perhaps S'ri-juryasya ; 

 yujya and jurya meaning " kinsman " and " old man " respectively ; 

 both, however, being probably in the present case proper names. 



The Natural History Secretary exhibited some stone implements 

 from New Guinea, New Britain and the Admiralty Islands. 



The following papers were read : — 

 1. On the recent extinction of a species of Rhinoceros in the Rajmahal 

 Hills and Bos Gaurus in the Mirzapur District. — By John Cock- 

 burn, Esq. 



(Abstract.) 



In this paper, Mr. Cockburn purposes to shew that the Rhinoceros 

 sondaicus, which is yet plentiful in the Sundarbans, was found in con- 

 siderable numbers at the northern base of the Rajmahal Hills, so late as 

 the year 1820, and quotes Dr. Jerdon's Mammals of India in support of 

 this view. He also gives an extract from the Bengal Hurkaru news- 

 paper of the 14th December 1820, containing an account of a hunting 

 expedition from the Governor- General's camp in that locality, about 12 

 miles above Rajmahal, in which it is mentioned that 3 or 4 Rhinoceros 

 were sighted, and that one of them was shot dead by Captain Brooke of 

 the Commissariat Department. 



