10 H. Rivett-Carnac —Prehistoric Remains in Central India. [Jan. 
which he has examined, a striking combination of large and small cups. He 
is therefore of opinion that this combination of marks may have some secret 
meaning yet to be discovered. He remarks that those who are acquainted 
with the system of printing by the electric telegraph, and the combination of 
long and short strokes in the Morse code, and the recent arrangements for 
communicating signals to troops at night, will agree that these marks may 
have some hidden signification. He connects these marks also with that 
found in the Kumaon Hills, and described in the Society’s Journal for 
January 1877, believes them in some cases to be the remains of Mahadeo 
worship. 
He thus sums up the results of his paper: 
(1.) The sketches shew that the shape of the tumuli in India and 
Europe is the same. 
(2.) The Barrows in India and Europe always face towards the 
South. 
(3.) The remains found in the Indian barrows resemble almost exactly 
the remains dug out of the burial-places of Europe. 
(4 ) The cup-marks on the boulders which surround the Indian tombs 
are identical with the marks found on the stones placed round the same class 
of tumuli in Europe. 
The paper will be published in the Joumal, Part I. 
The President said that he had been until recently under the impres¬ 
sion that the stone circles of Nagpur had already been fully described, but 
that having occasion lately to search for a description of them, ho had been 
unable to find any sufficient account, and he was therefore very glad that 
Mr. Rivett-Carnac had furnished the necessary details. These curious 
remains are of peculiar interest and deserve more attention than they have 
hitherto received. Rude stone monuments, sometimes in the form of cir¬ 
cles, sometimes of cromlechs or kistvaens, and occasionally of both together, 
the connexion being such as to shew that all are probably the work of the 
same people, have been found in the extreme north-west of India near 
Peshawar and in many places in the Peninsula, as at Nagpur, in several parts 
of the Hyderabad territory, in Mysore, Coorg, on the Nilgiri hills, in Mala¬ 
bar, Coimbatur, Salem, Tinnevelly, &c., and near Madras. In Southern 
India the rings are generally known as Koramba rings, and it is curious, as 
noticed by Mr. Foote, that near Madras some are formed of laterite, in 
which, in the same neighbourhood, palseolithic human implements are imbed¬ 
ded. The best descriptions hitherto given of any explorations are those 
of Capt. Meadows Taylor, who excavated some of the stone circles and 
kistvaens, here found together, near Ferozabad and Sliorapur in the Dec- 
can, west of Hyderabad, and gave a full account of his discoveries in the 
