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cabinet in the year 18M5, the only real novelties are an unique coin of Arche- 

 Lius, one of Diomedes (found in 1834) the confirmation of Adelphortos and 

 JPALinisus. Three Euthydemus', and one Antiochus have been gained ; the 

 ratio of 'he more common Bactrian and Indo-Scythic names is much the same as 

 in former years. We shall hasten to publish such portions of M. Masson's 

 niost industrious labours as have not hitherto appeared in our pages. 



Mr. Avdai.l brought to the Society's attention a singular narrative, in 

 translation, of the interview between Arsaces, king of Armenia, and the 

 Persian Monarch Sapor (Ai.aknaf.) 



[We hops to find room for this curious morceau ere long.] 



The Secretary read extract of a letter from the Counsellor Joseph Von 



Hammkr, of Vienna, (now Baron Purg-tall,) forwarding a continuation 



of his translation of the Mohit, an Arabic nautical work by Sidi Capudan, 



of which the first chapter was printed in the third volume of the Journal. 



The present chapter contains a catalogue of the islands along the shores of 

 the Red Sea, and directions for thirty different voyages from Loheia, Aden, &c. 

 to the various ports of India, Persia, and the Straits of Malacca. It is a fact 

 difficult to be accounted for, that the learned author offered to translate the whole 

 of this very scirce and curious work for the Oriental Translation Committee, 

 who have given to the world so many of less consideration ; but he was not 

 honored with a reply. 



Extracts were also read from other European Correspondence. Pro- 

 fessor Wilson reports his having forwarded the S yciety's memorial 

 regarding Oriental publications to the Royal Asiatic Society, which, in 

 concurrence with the Oriental Translation Committee, had warmly 

 espoused the object of its prayer. The Foreign Societies had also sup- 

 ported it, as far as the voice of protestation and argument by a body of 

 the most distinguished oriental scholars can lend its influence. 



Paris has set a further example which it would be unjust to the cause to omit 

 mentioning. 



Colonel Troyep, having presented to the Societe Asiatfque a German transla- 

 tion of the first six books of the Raj Taranghii, (one of the Sanscrit works 

 suspended by the Government order, and lately completed by the Society here,) 

 was invited to undertake a French version of the same for publication with the 

 Sanscrit text at the Society's expence, estimated at not less than 6,000 francs. 

 It may be hoped that the edition completed iu India,' of which specimens must 

 soon after have readied Paris, will spare a portion of this money for the many 

 other objects embraced by this active association. 



M. Jacquet announces the contemplated institution of a new professorship 

 of the Oriental languages in the University of Ghent, which well desire to ac- 

 cumulate manuscripts and printed works from this country. The late discovery 

 of coins and inscriptions in India had excited the most intense interest on the 

 Continent, but General Ventura's collection had not yet reached Paris, on 

 account of the detention of General Ai-lard by illness in the South of France. 



With regard to the coins of the Kadphises group, M. Jacquet having seen 

 Honigbkrgkr's collection would rt.ad the m<me Mokadphises, which he sug- 

 gests to be Mahatricha of the Sanscrit. We await his papers on this subject in 

 the Journal Aaiatique. 



Physical. 



A collection of specimens made by Captain Hannay in his recent 

 expedition up thj Irawadi to the Amber mines, was presented by Colonel 



Bl'UM'Y. 



The colled ion includes many varieties of white and gray marble — 

 terpentine, agates, jumpers, heliotrope and crystal, particularly a pale 



