734 Asiatic Society. [No. 140. 



No. II. of Mr. Heatly's Paper on the Mineral Resources of India, and 

 a Memoir of Mr. Keir, one of the early speculators in various Indian 

 products, were presented for the Journal, to the Editors of which they 

 were referred. 



Extract of a letter from Mr. Batten, C. S. dated Almorah, 17th July, was 

 read, stating that Capt. Boyes, 6th L. C. (See Proceedings of June p. 521) 

 had unfortunately only reached Milum in his progress towards the Passes, 

 having there lost almost all his baggage by a sudden flood. 



The following letter, accompanying a note on a Fossil Antelope, from 

 the Dadoopoor Museum, by Capt. Baker, B. E., was presented with a very 

 beautiful drawing, shewing the close relation of the Fossil to the African 

 Antelope types, Acronotus Caama (the Hartebeeste,) and A. Lunata, 

 (the Sassaybe,) with its deviation from the Indian Antelopes. This curi- 

 ous relation excited much interest, and the paper and plate will appear in 

 an early number of the Journal. 



To the Secretary of the Asiatic Society. 

 Dear Sir,— I have the pleasure to forward a paper for publication in the Journal of our Society, 

 should you consider it suitable for that purpose. I am about sending the elite of my Fossils to Eu- 

 rope, and will, if I can find time, send you a brief notice of the most remarkable among them. 



Believe me, dear Sir, 

 Kurnaul, July 21, 1843. Yours sincerely, 



W. E. Baker. 



Read the following letter from Captain D. Williams, first Assistant to the 

 Commissioner, Arracan, accompanying two Gold Coins presented by him to 

 the Society. 



Ramree, Arracan, 5th July, 1843. 

 Dear Sir, — I have now the pleasure to send you, for presentation to the Asiatic Society, two of 

 the gold coins found on Cheduba Island, they are the most perfect of those found. 



The Natives who found them tell me, they were dug up out of the sand on the Sea beach, about 

 .100 yards from the Sea, scattered about. 



I shall feel obliged if you will let me know what country, &c. these coins belonged to, as I can 

 gather no information on the subject from the Mugs. Yours truly, 



D. Williams. 



The coins have not yet been recognised, and we are inclined to consider 

 them, if not Siamese or Burmese, of a very early Hindoo type, perhaps 

 even as far back as the dynasties under which the Hindoos were a 

 navigating and a colonising people. They are of thin sheet gold, rudely 

 cut out, 1.4 and 1.3 inches in diameter, but weighing only 76.5 and 77 

 grains, and stamped on one side only. The central emblem is an elephant 

 surrounded by monograms or symbols. We shall take an early opportu- 

 nity of lithographing these curious reliques. 



