PREFACE. 



The following Index owes its origin to a desire to render the 

 varied and valuable matter contained in the Transactions of the 

 Asiatic Society easy of reference to the Compiler. In submit- 

 ting it to the Members, he is anxious that nothing more should 

 be expected from it than just what it assumes to be — a resume 

 of the several volume indices to the Journal of the Society and 

 to the last two volumes of the Asiatic Researches. All attempt 

 at systematic classification has been suppressed, and little more 

 has been done than to record, under the usual alphabetical 

 arrangement, the subjects, the names of the authors, and the 

 local connexion of the articles as they appear in their titles. 

 The appendix includes : 



1st, An Index to the Numismatic Papers, Notices and Plates 

 that have appeared in the Journal; compiled by G. H. Freeling, 

 Esq. B. C. S., 



2nd, A reprint of Col. Sykes's List of Ancient Inscriptions 

 published in the Journal. 



3rd, Mr. Piddington's Index to the Indian Geological, Mine- 

 ralogical and Palseontological papers in the Researches and the 

 Journal of the Society, and in the Gleanings of Science ; and 



4th, A Table of Indian Coals Analyzed at the Calcutta Assay 

 Office, including those published in the Gleanings in Science, 

 September, 1831, arranged according to localities extracted 

 from the Report of the Coal Committee ; by Mr. Jas. Prinsep, 



R. M. 



20ih December, 1856. 



