NOTE BY THE EDITORS, 



Mr. Freeling, when giving lis a report on our Coin Cabinet, in Maj, 

 1857, suggested an appeal to the friends of the Society throughout 

 India in the following words : 



" In conclusion 1 would urge that all friends to the Society, among 

 whom must of course be specially included all who themselves feel 

 any interest in Indian numismatics, should be requested to aid in 

 every mode in their power, so that the coin collection may be placed 

 in that rank which would so well bent a Society whose Journal is 

 the depository of the lifelong labours of James Prinsep." 



He pointed out that our collection was very deficient in Bactrians, 

 and, though this department has been since greatly enriched by our 

 purchase of the Stacy Cabinet, it still wants many coins which might 

 be supplied from the Punjab or from duplicates in private collections. 

 In Pathans of Delhi and in Moguls we have yet many blanks to 

 be supplied, though our extreme poverty in these series is less conspi- 

 cuous since the purchase above mentioned. 



When our Cabinet shall have been properly arranged, a list of the 

 duplicates in our possession which will be available for sale or 

 exchange will be published in the Journal. We shall be glad to 

 introduce into the same list any duplicates in private collections which 

 their owners may wish to dispose of. 



