PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 
For April, 1862. 
The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 
was held on the 2nd instant. 
A. Grote, Esq., President, in the chair. 
Presentations were received :— 
/ 1. From Dr. Hunter, under instructions from His Excellency 
Sir W. Denison, a set of Capt. Tripe’s photographs of Tanjore, 
Trivady, Madura, Poodoocottah, Trichinopoly, Rya Ivotta and 
Seringham, of an inscription around the basement of the Binanum 
of the Great Pagoda at Tanjore, and of the Elliot marbles and other 
objects in the Madras Central Museum. 
2. From Mr. C. Metcalfe, an inscribed slab from Eajshahi 
recording a grant of land made by Vijaya Sena, a monarch of the 
Sena dynasty of Bengal. 
3. From Capt. E. Smyth, skins of a yak, a thar, a burral and 
a musk deer. 
4. From Major Anstruther Thomson, a young cuttle fish in 
spirit. 
5. From Capt. F. W. Stubbs, a small silver coin of Alexander 
the Great. 
With reference to this coin the following note was communicated 
by Mr. E. C. Bay ley :— 
“ No small coin of Alexander the Great so minute as the present 
has as yet been certainly found in India. Coins of the same size, 
however, of the Bactrian kings Demetrius and Eukratides are not 
uncommon. I am inclined to think the present type was struck in 
Alexander’s Eastern possessions.” 
