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No. 3. A debased coin of Kumara Gupta. The metal is gold alloyed 
with about •§• of copper. There are some coins in which the gold and cop¬ 
per are in equal proportions—billon. Some such were found in Jessore 
thirty years ago, and noticed by me in the Journal, Yol. XXI, p. 401. 
No 4. A gold coin of Jalal-uddin Firuz Shah of Delhi—-apparently 
the counterpart of the unique gold coin in the British Museum, noticed 
by Mr. Thomas in his “ Pathan Coins,” page 144. The legend is the same 
as in the silver coin figured No. 50. 
No. 5. A silver coin of Nu^rat Shah, son of Husain Shah of Bengal, 
figured by Mr. Blochmann in the Journal, Vol. XL1I, plate IX, fig. 2. 
No. 6. A silver coin of Ghias-uddin Mahmud Shah, son of Husain 
Shah of Bengal and brother of Nufrat Shah. A rare coin, figured by 
Mr. J. W. Laidlay, in the Journal, Vol. XV, plate V, fig. 23. 
The Secretary read the following communication from Mr. H. 
Rivett-Carnac, c. I. E., on the subject of preservation of Archteological 
remains in India. 
Memorandum by H. Rivett Carrac, Esq., c. r. e., m. r. a. s., 
e. s. a., &c. on administrative Rules for the protection of Indian 
Antiquarian remains. 
I submit for the consideration of the Society, whether it would not be 
advisable that the Supreme Government should be addressed, with a view 
to the issue of some simple administrative rules for the better protection 
of the Antiquarian remains of the various Provinces of India. 
Recently when staying with Mr Grant-Duff in England, I met Sir 
J. Lubbock, whose interest in such matters is well known, and on the sub¬ 
ject being discussed, it was, I think, considered that some action was 
desirable. Mr. Grant-Duff, I understood, contemplated a representation 
being made to H. E. The Viceroy in favour of some such measure. But 
even if this has already been done, the subject is perhaps not undeserving 
of the attention of the Society. 
The difficulties which Sir J. Lubbock’s Bill for the United King¬ 
dom has encountered are well known. But they are not likely to present 
themselves in the same form or in the same degree in India, where even 
legislative action will perhaps hardly be necessary, and where the district 
officers might, it is to be hoped, carry out without objection, the instruc¬ 
tions approved by the Government. 
I am not unmindful that the Government of India has, of late years, 
evinced considerable interest in the subject ; that Archseology is one of the 
Departments under the Secretary to the Government of India for Revenue, 
Agriculture and Commerce ; that Archseology also now forms a heading in 
the Administration Reports of-all Governments and administrations ; that 
