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eopy traced on thin paper from the original map in this country by a gentleman 

 who visited England on furlough, in 1824, and we are not sure that copies were 

 ever sent home officially to Leadenhall street, but rather suppose they may be 

 still found in the archives of the Political Secretary's Office.) 



Mr. Wilson alludes also to the Indo-Scythic coin brought to light by Lieut. 

 Burnes, and attributed to Kanishca. The Greek scholars of Oxford all read the 

 inscription KANHPKOY. No doubt the discoveries since made in Bactrian 

 numismatics will excite great interest among the antiquarians of the University. 



Antiquities. 

 Read a letter from W. Sturmer, Esq. forwarding twelve pieces of me- 

 tal supposed to be ancient coins, which were dug up on clearing an estate 

 in the Sunderbuns (lot. xliv. of Capt. T. Prinsep's Sunderbun map.) 



These coins are of silver and copper, square or circular, without any proper 

 die impression, but bearing merely small chhdps or shr&f marks of various kinds. 

 The silver pieces have an average weight of 52 grains, and have been adjusted 

 by cutting off the corners. 



Read a letter from Major L. R. Stacy, bringing to the notice of the 

 Society two coins of his cabinet, having the symbol observed in the Behat 

 coins of Capt. Cautley, united to a Greek inscription. Connected with this 

 subject, the Secretary also exhibited to the meeting, and read a note 

 on, a silver coin of the same type just received from Lieut. A. Conolly, 

 bearing a most clear and unequivocal inscription in the illegible character, 

 No. I. of the Allahabad column. 



(We shall hasten to lay drawings of these two curious coins before our 

 readers.) 



A second letter from Major Stacy drew the Society's attention to a 

 small copper coin found in Malwa, having the image of a sphinx on the 

 obverse. 



Read a letter from Captain Geo. Burney on the subject of the Pali 

 inscription at Gaya. 



The impressions of the inscriptions were it seems taken off by Captain Burney 

 himself in Feb. 1833, with very great trouble ; and there was no Pandit in the 

 envoy's suite; one copy was given to the Governor General, with a translation, 

 and the other to the Burmese Ambassador. The remaining copy with the trans- 

 lator's observations was intended for the Asiatic Society. We regret that our 

 ignorance of these circumstances should have caused a premature publication of 

 the inscription, but Capt. B.'s observations will still be of equal value. 



Copies of an inscription in Nagri, Marhatta, and Tamul characters, 

 from a stone dug up in building a new ghat at Benares, were communicate 

 ed in a Persian letter from Munshi Pal Singh, at Benares. 



The stone was 29 feet long and 9 feet in girth, it seems to have belonged to a 

 temple of no great antiquity. The inscriptions are too imperfect to be deci- 

 phered, but the example of making such discoveries known is deserving of every 

 encouragement. They bear the date Samvat 1655. 



Physical. 

 Specimens of the fossil shells found in the lime quarries on the banks of 

 the Derwent river, 12 or 13 miles from Hobart Town, in Van Dieman's 

 Land, were presented by H. T. Prinsep, Esq. 



