204 Asiatic Society. [ApRIL, 
Antiquities. 
Read a letter from W. Storm, Esq. presenting for deposit in the cabinet, 
the three coins exhibited to the Society on the 5th September, 1832. 
These coins were found in estate No. 100 (No. 74 of Captain Prinsep’s Soon- 
durbun Map), west of the ruins of Bishenpur, on the Ishamati or Jabuna river, near 
an old temple called Met Bure. 
» The Secretary noticed asimple method employed by the natives in taking off fac- 
similes of coins on paper : they daub a little printer’s or pakka ink on the projecting 
parts of the coin, and then transfer it by pressure on to the fleshy part of the thumb 
—thence a faithful representation is impressed upon the paper, previously wetted, 
which has the advantage of not being reversed. 
Four silver coins found at Agra, 1 of Akber, 2 of Jehangir, and 1 of 
Alamgir Il—presented by Capt. J. T. Boileau, Engineers. 
Literary. 
Translation of a Tibetan Passport, engraved in Hyde’s Religio Persarum. 
By M. A. Csoma de KGrés, 
[This will be found in the present number, p. 201.] 
Selections from Mr. Csoma’s translations from the dStan-hgyur were also 
read—among them, the letter of Ratnavaut, a young Princess of Ceylon, 
to Suaxya, and the reply of the sage. This letter is generally known in 
Tibet, and is introduced in every collection of epistolary forms. 
[The want of Tibetan type obliges us to defer the insertion of this curious mor- 
ceau, which however is but a literal translation from the Sanskrit.] 
Physical. 
A gigantic specimen of Fossil Ammonite, from the Carboniferous Lime- 
stone of Swansea, was presented by Lieut. J. A. Crommelin, Engineers. 
Read a letter from Lieut. J. T. Smith, Masulipatam, forwarding the Geo- 
logical specimens of the late Dr. Voysey, alluded to at the last meeting ; 
also the following mentioned in Dr. Malcolmson’s letter. 
1. Fragment of the Meteorolite, which fell in the Cadapah district 2nd 
January, 1831*. 
2. Fossil Shell and Bone, noticed at the meeting of the 20th February. 
3. Limestone from Warapilly, which seems well adapted for Lithogra- 
phic purposes. 
4. Fragment of Bone, from a Cave in the neighbourhood of Hyderabad, 
explored by Dr. Malcolmson, who gives the following description of it. 
“‘Some interesting facts occurred to me the other morning in a ride to a large 
mass of granite rock near this, whichis rent into fissures of great depth, forming 
dens inhabited by hyznas and chitas, extending through the bottom of the little 
Fil to unknown depths. Having entered one of the rents, I was struck with the 
masses of fallen rock on each side being covered with stalagmite formed from the 
water running down from the sides of the rent 40 feet above, and still more by observ- 
ing that the sides of the narrow passage bore a fine polish, which my companion im- 
mediately exclaimed, must be caused by the animals passing out of a cave at the end 
of the fissure he had beenexamining. I had the same thing in view, and was at 
the time observing how far it could be caused by the water. In tracing the same 
appearance in other places, it was only observed where the animals would necessa- 
* Vide GLEANINGS, ili. 389. 
