224 Philological Secretary — Ueport on Coins. [Dec. 



G. C. Dudgeon, Esq., Mumfick Lebong Tea Company, Darjeeling, 

 proposed by L. de Nieeville, Esq., seconded by J. Wood-Mason, Esq. 



Kumar Rameswar Maliah, of Searsole, (for re-election) proposed 

 by Babu Gaiirdas Bysack, seconded by Lieut. -Col. J. Waterhouse. 



The following gentlemen have intimated their wish to withdraw 

 from tiie Society : 



Lieut.-Genl. G. G. Pearse, R. H. A., C. B. 

 W. Fiddian, Esq., C. S. 



The President announced that Mr. Pedler had been obliged to 

 resign the post of Treasurer on account of ill-health, and that the duties 

 had been taken up by Dr. W. King ; 



also that the Council had with much pleasure accepted the invi- 

 tation of the Microscopical Society that the President of the Asiatic 

 Society should be an Honorary Member of their Society. 



Babi5 Saeat Chandra Das exhibited some Tibetan MSS., one 

 .written in letters of gold, of the Bodhipathapradipa, by Dipamkara 

 S'rijnana, the celebrated Buddhist Pandit of Bengal, who visited Tibet 

 in 1038 A. D. (postponed from last meeting). 



Mr. E. T. Atkinson exhibited a Tibetan Map, painted on cloth, of 

 Sikkim and adjacent parts of Tibet, including the Chumbi valley, and 

 Phari, &c., obtained from the Tibetan camp. 



The Philological Secretary read a report on a find of 477 gold 

 mohurs, forwarded by the Deputy Commissioner of Hoshangabad with 

 his letters No. 2612, 2955, and 3588, dated respectively 7th July 1888, 

 28th July 1888 and 12th September 1888. 



1. The coins are stated to have been found in a field, in the 

 Sohagpur Tahsil of the Hoshangabad district, by some ploughmen, while 

 ploughing. 



2. On examination 25 of the coins were found to be forgeries. 

 Twenty one of these show on both faces a few illegible scrawls, some of 



-which appear to be attempts at imitating Persian letters, while others 

 seem to be a very crude imitation of the fish symbol on some of Shah 

 'A'lam's coinage ; this is the only clue to their possible age. The other 

 four are forgeries of Aurangzib's and Farrukh Siyar's mohurs. I have 

 had them tested by Messrs. Cooke and Kelvey, Jewellers of Calcutta, who 

 pronounce them to be silver gilt and worth about 8 annas each. 



3. The other coins numbering 452 are genuine and belong to the 

 following emperors of Dehli : 



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