2 Tenasserim Expedition — Coins. [Jan. 



The following are candidates for ballot at the next Meeting : 



1. Mr. William Crooke, C. S., Gorakhj)ur, N. W. P., proposed by Mr. 

 V. A. Smith, seconded by Mr. H. Blochmann. 



2. Capt. G. F. L. Marshall, E. E., proposed by Mr. J. Wood-Mason, 

 seconded by Major H. H. Godwin- Austen. 



The President annomiced that the Council had contributed a sum of 

 Rs. 500 in aid of a Zoological Exploration of Tenasserim, and that the same 

 had started fully equipped under the charge of Mr. Limborg. The results 

 of the expedition would be published in the Society's Journal. 



The President exhibited the following silver coins and said — 



" The ten coins, which form the remainder of the batch recently pur- 

 chased from the Persian Gulf, belong to the group termed by Mr. Edward 

 Thomas " Partho-Persian", which probably belonged to minor rulers in 

 more or less subordination to the Parthian kings, the style of whose 

 coins they follow in many respects. 



" The coin which I have marked No. 1 appears to be identical with 

 that marked as No. 3, of the plate given by Mr. Thomas in his paper on the 

 Pehlevi Legends on Arsacidan Coins. Unfortunately the present coin is in 

 bad preservation. No. 2 is a small coin of the same general type, i. e. with 

 a head on either side, but the reverse head is bearded. The legend on the 

 obverse is absent, but there is one on the reverse of which a few letters may 

 be perhaps read as \ji\ " Aeza". All the other coins have the " Mobed" 

 and the fire altar on the reverse, and of these No. 3 seems to assimilate with 

 the coin numbered by Mr. Thomas as 6 on his plate, the legend of which he 

 admits to be doubtful. Nor can I venture to offer any decipherment of my 

 own. The coin, though in good preservation, is very rudely executed. 



" The coin I have marked as No. 4, approximates to that figured as 

 No. 8 of Mr. Thomas's plate, but the legend in front of the fire altar seems 

 to read not quite as in his coin jj^-^ij; ( ( ) , (A)rethashtar, or Artaxerxes. 

 I cannot ]3retend to offer any decij^herment of the other coins ; they are of 

 rude execution, and the alphabet is one with which I am not familiar. I 

 notice that two of the heads have, instead of the high Parthian ca}^, a trij^le 

 pointed crown." 



The following papers were read — 

 1. — On Ilimdlayan Glaciation. — By J. F. Campbell, Esq. 

 (Abstract.) 

 Mr. Campbell's observations refer to the outer Himalayan region be- 

 tween the Ganges and the Ravi, including the higher hills at Masiiri and to 

 Narkanda, north of Simla. Within this area he could not find one ' perched 

 block,' one hog-backed ridge, or one rounded valley. Everywhere far and 



