444 Asiatic Society. [No. 125. 



Read letter of 28th April 1842, from Lieutenant A. Cunningham, intimating that 

 he was " busy with a very long article on the Coins of Kashmere. Fourteen 

 plates are now finished, and the fifteenth is now being lithographed. A supernu- 

 merary plate must be added to contain the coins of various new, besides some curi- 

 ous types of known, kings, and the last plate will be one of Monograms, so 

 arranged as to shew at a glance the names of all the kings who used any one 

 Monogram, and all the Monograms which any one king used.'' 



Read letter of 14th April 1842, from Dr. T. A. Wise, assenting to the proposal of 

 printing his Commentaries on the ancient Hindoo System of Medicine. 



Read Mr. Lovell Reeves' letter to Mr. Blvth, requesting proposal for the 

 purchase of his book, (Systematic Conchology,) by the Asiatic Society. Ordered, that 

 two copies (with colored plates,) of the work be subscribed for the Library of 

 the Society. 



The Curator read his Report for the month of April 1842, as follows : — 



Sir, — I have the pleasure on this occasion to congratulate the Society on the varie- 

 ty of presentations made for their Museum during the past month, and on the number 

 of different persons who have thus contributed to its enrichment. These donations 

 have principally consisted of Mammalia, Birds, and Shells, with a valuable box of 

 Insects from Afghanistan, and are as follow : — 



Mammalia. 



From Dr. Pearson, the Society has received a number of skins, but unfortunately 

 not prepared for being mounted, which are referrible to the following species : 



Ursus Tibetanus, the Black Bear of the Himalaya, figured by Mons. F. Cuvier. 



Cervus (Styloceros) Muntjac, v. Ratwa of Hodgson : the Kakur, or Barking 

 Deer of sportsmen. 



C. (Rusaj Hippelaphus : the Sambur, adult and young. 



Nczmorhcedus Thar, Hodgson : two skins of males. 



Bos (Bison) grunniens: the Yak, a particularly fine skin. 



B, (Taurus J Gaurus, v. Bibos cavifrons > Hodgson, and Bos aculeatus, Wagler: 

 the Gaour ; a very large skin, from Arracan. The Gaour, I may remark, ranges south- 

 ward into the Malay Peninsula, from which locality there is a horn of this species in 

 the Museum of the Hon. Company in London : the dimensions of one killed on the 

 Keddah Coast, with a figure of the head, are given in the Royal Asiatic Society's 

 Journal, 111. 50 ; and there is a skull of a female, understood to be fi*om the South of 

 China, in the London United Service Museum. Dr. Heifer states that, in Tenasserim, 

 "the great Bos Gaurus is rather rare, but Bison Guodus* very common ; besides 

 another small kind of Cow, called by the Burmese F'hain, of which I saw foot-prints, 

 but never the living animal." J. A. S., VII. 860. Of this latter more presently. In 



' Evidently a misprint for Gavatvs, the Gayal ; for the words may be written to look very much 

 alike. 





