PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL 



For Apeil, 1862. 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 

 was held on the 2nd instant. 



A. Grote, Esq., President, in the chair. 

 Presentations were received : — 



1. From Dr. Hunter, under instructions from His Excellency 

 Sir W. Denison, a set of Capt. Tripe's photographs of Tanjore, 

 Trivady, Madura, Poodoocottah, Trichinopoly, Rya Kotta and 

 Seringham, of an inscription around the basement of the Binanum 

 of the Great Pagoda at Tanjore, and of the Elliot marbles and other 

 objects in the Madras Central Museum. 



2. From Mr. C. Metcalfe, an inscribed slab from Rajshahi 

 recording a grant of land made by Vijaya Sena, a monarch of the 

 Sena dynasty of Bengal. 



3. From Capt. E. Smyth, skins of a yak, a thar, a burral and 

 a musk deer. 



4. From Major Anstruther Thomson, a young cuttle fish in 

 spirit. 



5. From Capt. F. W. Stubbs, a small silver coin of Alexander 

 the Great. 



With reference to this coin the following note was communicated 

 by Mr. E. C. Bayley :— 



" No small coin of Alexander the Great so minute as the present 

 has as yet been certainly found in India. Coins of the same size, 

 however, of the Bactrian kings Demetrius and Eukratides are not 

 uncommon. I am inclined to think the present type was struck in 

 Alexander's Eastern possessions." 



