1834.] Scientific Intelligence. 247 



The Secretary also laid on the table an extensive collection of ancient 

 coins, received through Capt. Wade and Lieut. Conolly from Mulvi 

 Shekh Kera.uat Ali, now residing at Kabul, on the part of the British 

 Government, 



Shekh Keramat Ali is well known as the companion of Lieut. A. Conolly 

 in his journey from Persia to India, of which an account was printed in the Glean- 

 ings, vol. iii. page 346. On quitting Calcutta, in 1832, to join his new appoint- 

 ment, he carried with him copies of all the plates of ancient coins up to that time 

 printed, and others were afterwards forwarded to him, to assist him in the search 

 he zealously undertook to make for Bactrian and Hindu coins, then only sparingly 

 known to us. Later in the field, and bringing none of the knowledge of the sub- 

 ject possessed by his European competitors, his comparatively undirected efforts have 

 been wonderfully successful: the collection now transmitted comprises numerous coins 

 of Apollodotus, Menander, Herm/fus, Eucratides,Kanerkos, Kadphises, 

 and indeed almost all of those enumerated by Mr. Masson's Memoir, besidessome 

 very curious Parthian and many gold and silver Hindu coins. 



In all, the packet contains gold coins, , 8 



Silver ditto, 128 



Copper ditto, . . . « 247 



383 

 [An account of such coins as are new, will be published hereafter.] 



Papers read. 

 Dr. Gerard's Memoir on the Topes of Afghanistan. 



[This paper will be noticed in a subsequent number.] 

 Observations on the Allahabad Inscription, No. 2. with a translation. By 

 the Rev. W. H. Mill, D. D. Vice-Pres. &c. 



Dr. Mill has succeeded in restoring completely the main portion of the inscrip- 

 tion ; of which he presented a transcript in Modern Devanagari, on a large scale, 

 interlined with a verbal translation in Latin. The Vice-President read his version 

 of the same in English, which we shall have the pleasure of presenting to our readers 

 in the next number of the Journal. 



XI. — Scientific Intelligence. 

 Willard's Treatise on the Music of Hindustan. 



With the exception of Sir William Jones' valuable and learned essay in the 

 third volume of the Asiatic Researches, we have had little information on the mu- 

 sic of the Hindus, beyond a notice of the adaptation of the rags to the different 

 seasons and hours in Gilchrist's Hindustani Grammar, and occasional cursory 

 (generally disparaging) mention of theexisting practice of the artatnaches, in noisy 

 processions, or on the ghats, by travellers ill capable of appreciating the peculia- 

 rities of the science of sweet sounds among the nations of the East. The instruments 

 themselves are pretty well known; Solwyn's magnificent work contains accurate 

 drawings of most of them, which have been copied into other more popular works. 



The present volume therefore, a child of long promise, and consequently of 

 high expectation, was received with avidity, as the author was known to be a skilful 



