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The Secretary informed the meeting of Lt. Cunningham's having de- 

 clared himself a convert to the identification of the supposed Mayas, held 

 by several authorities to have been one of the early Bactrian Monarchs, 

 with Demetrius, a position originally suggested, and maintained at some 

 length, by the Secretary, in No. of the Journal of the Asiatic Society. 



Read the following Letters, viz. From the Secretary, Political Depart- 

 ment, Government of India, No. 1077, dated the 26th April 1841, transmit- 

 ting a Report by Mr. Asst. Surg. Walker, on the Geology and Manufac- 

 tures of the Hunum Koondah district of the Nizam's Dominions, for 

 such notice as the subject may merit. 



N.B. — Specimen of produce, as Indigo, &c. &c. from the province in 

 question, have been since received, and will be submitted to the Society at 

 their next meeting, with the Curator's report upon the objects to be 

 submitted. 



From-Mr. C.P.White of Midnapore, of 19th April 1841, sending a 

 specimen in Ornithology for the Society's Museum. 



From Mr. R. Clarke, Hony. Secy. Royal Asiatic Society, London, dated 

 7th November 1840, acknowledging the receipt of the Journal for No- 

 vember and December 1839, and the Mahabharata, Vol. IV. 



Read a letter from Major Thoresby, Jyepore, 5th April 1841, apprizing 

 the dispatch of the stone at the gorge of the Teoree Ghat near Buerath, 

 bearing the Palee Inscription in ancient characters, a copy of which was 

 taken and forwarded to the Asiatic Society by Capt. Burt. Also some 

 specimens of ores of the mines in the Khetree hills. 



The Secretary submitted to the meeting, presented by Robert Torrens 

 Esq., the Magistrate of the 24-Pergunnahs, a quantity of coins of the 

 Mussulman Kings of Bengal, found by a Gang of convicts employed on 

 the Roads at Howrah. The coins, as read by the Hon. H. T. Prinsep, 

 Esq., are as follows : 



N.B.—O. and R. stand for obverse and reverse of the coins. 

 No. 1. 0. Alwasik bu tueed ul Rhuman abooul Moojahid Secunder 

 Shah ibn Ulyas Shah ussooltan. 



R. Yumeen ul Khuleefut Illahi Nasir ameer ul moomuneen, 

 Oun ul islam oo ul moosulimeen ; Khuladu Moolkuhoo. 

 ( Circular legend not legible.) 



No. 2. 0. Ulsooltan ul adil, Ghums ood dunya oo ood deen, Aboo ul 

 Moozuffur, Ilyas Shah ussooltan. 



R. Sekunder oosanee Yumeen ul Khuleefut, Ameer ul Moo- 

 muneen. 



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