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foresting old buildings. Ho has also collected a large number of old coins 

 of various dynasties, which will be described in his Report. It is under- 

 stood that all coins, sculptures, and other antiquarian objects collected 

 by the staff shall be strictly considered as State property and shall be- 

 long to the principal museum of the circle, but arrangements may be 

 made for certain exceptions (including duplicates) in favour of the 

 Imperial and other Museums and also for exchanges and casts. I can 

 only hope that these arrangements may have a liberal tendency in so 

 far as they affect the Indian Museum, which is to all intents and pur- 

 poses the Museum of our Society and contains the nucleus of a fairly 

 representative study-collection from various parts of India. 



N.-W. Provinces. — In the North- Western Provinces and Oudh circle, 

 under Dr. A. Fiihrer, who is an Associate Member of our Society, and Mr. 

 E. Smith, some 64 inscriptions in Arabic, Persian, and Sanskrit were 

 collected and translated, of which 30 were new and some were of 

 considerable historical importance. In Jaunpur, the capital of the local 

 Sharki dynasty in the fifteenth century, careful architectural drawings 

 were made of the Jama, Atala, and Jhinjari Masjids, chiefly built from 

 materials derived from older Hindu temples, and themselves illustrating 

 a peculiar style of architecture. The Report will also deal with the 

 ancient remains at Zafarabad, Ayodhya, Sahet-Mahet, and Bhuila-Tal. 

 This last place was identified by Mr, Carlleyle (Arch. Rep. xii, p. 182) 

 Avith Kapilavastu, but Dr. Fuhrer dissents from this. 



Bengal. — In Bengal, the Surveyor, Mr. J. D. Beglar, and his assistant, 

 Mr. Garrick, have examined more or less completely the remains of interest 

 in the Shahabad, Gaya, Patna, Munger, Bhagalpur, Hugli, and Nadiya 

 districts and the Santhal Parganahs. The fortress of Shergarh has 

 been visited and sections and detailed plans and drawings of the great 

 tombs of Slier Shah and his father at Sasseram have been prepared. In 

 Gaya, under the guidance and direction of General Cunningham, Mr. 

 Beglar opened trial trenches in a place to the north of the temple within 

 the old ' garh ' or fort, with the result that the remains of a building 

 were discovered that may reasonably be identified with one of the great 

 monasteries mentioned by Fah Hian, the Chinese traveller, in the fifth 

 century. In Patna, an examination of the river- wall of the fort has led 

 Mr. Beglar to the belief that its foundations contain remains of the land- 

 ward walls of the fortress that existed there in Asoka's time, in the third 

 century before Christ. Sections and plans have also been prepared of 

 the Adina mosque, in the Malda district, the most ancient and the most 

 important of the Muhammadan buildings in Bengal. Steps have been 

 ill ready taken to conserve in a measure the buildings around the site of 

 the famous bo-tvce at Gaya, and selections from the scattered remains 



