1840.] Note on the Bameean Coins. 75 



found in Bactria Proper, stronger grounds are elicited for believing that 

 he did succeed Euthydemus in his hereditary possession of the integral 

 kingdom. The rare occurrence of the Mayus or of the Demetrius coins, 

 seems to suggest that he was very shortly after his succession ejected by 

 Eucratides. Mr. Schlegal, who assumes that he did not succeed his father 

 in Bactria, but who acknowledges his ejection from his paternal dominions* 

 and his retirement into Arachosia, must allow that to be ejected, he must 

 have once possessed. 



As governor during his father's life time, of provinces along the Indus, 

 the elephant's head would be an appropriate type for the coin struck by 

 Demetrius. The bell, which appears to have attracted so much attention in 

 Paris, is in shape and proportion similar to the large bells now in com- 

 mon use with native chieftains in Upper India, saving with a rope on either 

 side the elephant, instead of about his neck, as in the coin. The object of 

 the modern custom is to regulate the pace of the animal by the alternate 

 sound of the swinging bell ; the ancient practice originated, perhaps, in 

 some similar fancy. 



Should any of our contributors see reason to think that these observa- 

 tions have really made out the point they are intended to establish, may 

 I hope that the idea of further success in elucidating fact as regards a very 

 interesting, but most obscure epoch, will encourage them to make public 

 the fruits of their research ? I have requested Captain Hay to favour me 

 with drawings of the most remarkable coins in his collection, and am 

 most sorry to say that I have been as yet unable to have lithographs taken 

 from the impressions in sealing wax which he has sent me. |-x^ 



Memorandum on the differences of the Meridian of the Obser- 

 vatory at Madras and the Flag-Staff of Fort William and of 

 the Cantonment of Futtehghur in the Doab. — By Colonel J. A. 

 Hodgson, late Surveyor-General of India. 

 I purpose in the following remarks, to give an account of 

 the above differences, as deduced from eclipses of the first 

 satellite of Jupiter, made by myself, and to add some notices 

 regarding the modes of determining the longitudes, and la- 

 titudes, of places in Asia, which may be found useful to the 

 officers of this army, now serving in places far distant from 

 each other. 



The Indian Government has for upwards of fifty years 

 maintained an Observatory at Madras, but until 1829, it was 



