5. The Canadian Antiquarian and Numismatic Journal. Vol. xiii, No. 2. From the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of

Montreal.

6. Revue Belge de Numismatique, 1887. Part I. From the Numismatic Society of Belgium.

7. Aarböger for Nordisk Oldkyndighed og Historie. 2nd Series, 1886. Band I, Heft III. From the Society of Northern Antiquaries, Copenhagen.

8. Bulletin Historique de la Société des Antiquaires de la Morinie. 139th livraison. From the Society.

9. Berliner Philologische Wochenschrift, 1886. Nos. 51 and 52, and 1887, Nos. 2, 3. From the Publishers.

Colonel H. H. Kitchener exhibited a "Medjedieh" struck by the late Mahdi and issued at Khartoum. It bears on the obverse the inscription in Arabic, "By order of the Mahdi," cleverly arranged so as to have the appearance of the Sultan's tughra or cypher, and on the reverse, in Arabic, "Struck in the year of the Hejra 1302." The whole piece bears a striking resemblance to the Turkish coin of the same denomination now issued at Cairo.

The other exhibitions were:

Mr. H. Montagu. Four shillings of Henry VII, all varieties, two being of the "Septim" class.

Mr. Copp. A Tanner's ninepence and a copper farthing of Cromwell.

Mr. Webster. A silver medal of Cardinal Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, Archbishop of Besançon, by Lione Lioni.

Mr. Krumbholz. A shilling of Elizabeth, counter-marked with the arms of Holland, a "wattled fence," and the letters G.B.

The Rev. G. F. Crowther. Forgeries of pennies of Ethered, Archbishop of Canterbury; of Alfred the Great, struck in London; and of John, struck at Durham.

A paper on the medals of the Popes Innocent VIII and Alexander VI, written by the late Archdeacon Pownall, was

read. All the medals described in the paper had been previously published, but the writer explained their types more fully than has been hitherto done. (See vol. vii, p. 160.)

FEBRUARY 17, 1887.

JOHN EVANS, Esq., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., P.S.A., President, in the Chair.

Messrs. J. H. André, G. J. Bascom, A. Bom, L. H. Low, W. Ransom, W. T. Ready, H. P. Smith, and Captain R. H. C. Tufnell were elected Members of the Society.

The following presents were announced and laid upon the table :

1. Annuaire de Numismatique. November-December, 1883. From the French Numismatic Society.

2. Foreningen til Norske Fortidsmindesmerkers Bevaring, 1885, with Kunst og Haandverk, Part VI, 1886. From the Society of Northern Antiquaries.

3. Jahrbücher des Vereins von Alterthumsfreunden im Rheinlande. Part LXXXII. From the Society.

4. Journal of the Historical and Archæological Association of Ireland. No. 66, 1886. From the Association.

5. Journal of the Institute of Bankers.

From the Institute.

Vol. viii, Part II.

6. Archæologia Cantiana. Vol. xvi. From the Kent Archeological Society.

7. Bulletin des Procès-Verbaux de la Société d'Émulation

d'Abbeville, 1885. From the Society.

8. Bulletin mensuel de Numismatique et d'Archéologie. By R. Serrure. From the Editor.

9. Bulletin Historique de la Société des Antiquaires de la Morinie. N.S., 143me livraison. From the Society.

10. Berliner Philologische Wochenschrift. Nos. 4-7, 1887. From the Publishers.

11. The Journal of Hellenic Studies. Vol. vii, No. 2. Text and Plates. From the Hellenic Society.

12. A Series of Articles on Indian Antiquities and Coins, by Surgeon-Major O. Codrington. Reprinted from the Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. From the Author.

Mr. Evans exhibited a large brass coin of Domitian of his eleventh consulship, having on the reverse Pax holding a cornucopiæ and a torch, standing towards the left and setting fire to a trophy of arms; also an uncertain bronze coin of Julius Cæsar, with his head on the obverse accompanied by a star, and on the reverse a barbarous inscription, CASER IVLIVS, in a laurel wreath.

Mr. Montagu exhibited a large bronze coin of Rhodes, obv. head of young Dionysus, rer. ΕΠΙ ΕΥΔΩΡΟΥ ΡΟΔΙΩΝ, Nike alighting on a globe, holding wreath and palm; also a gold octadrachm of Ptolemy II (Philadelphus), similar to figure 379 of Head's Historia Numorum.

Mr. Hall exhibited a series of Roman imperial aurei selected with the object of showing the resemblances of the portraits of different members of the same family.

Mr. B. V. Head read the first portion of a paper by Canon Greenwell on the electrum coinage of Cyzicus, in which he gave an account of the early history of the town, of its various religious cults, and of the growth and extension of its commerce in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C., especially with regard to the practical monopoly which it so long enjoyed of coining electrum staters. (See vol. vii, p. 1.)

MARCH 17, 1887.

H. MONTAGU, Esq., F.S.A., Vice-President, in the Chair.

Messrs. Charles E. Mackerell and Charles Spink were elected Members of the Society.

The following presents were announced and laid upon the table:

1. A Guide to English Pattern Coins from Edward I. to Victoria. By the Rev. G. F. Crowther, M.A. From the Author.

2. Aarböger for Nordisk Oldkyndighed og Historie, 1886, 2nd Series, vol. vii, Heft IV. From the Society of Northern Antiquaries.

3. Sitzungsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Parts XL-LIII. From the Academy.

4. The Journal of the Royal Historical and Archæological Association of Ireland. Vol. vii. Series IV., No. 67. From the Association.

5. Berliner Philologische Wochenschrift. Nos. 8-11, 1887, From the Publishers.

6. The Medals, Jetons, and Tokens illustrative of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. By H. R. Storer, A.M., M.D. From the Author.

7. Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy. Vol. xxvii, Nos. 6-8; vol. xxviii, Nos. 21-25; and Cunningham Memoirs, Nos. 2 and 3. From the Academy.

8. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. JanuaryJuly, 1886, No. 5, Science, and No. 7, Literature. From the Academy.

9. Bronze medal commemorating the visit of Prince Albert Victor of Wales to the City of London, June 29, 1885. From the Corporation.

Mr. Montagu exhibited two large medals by Massimiliano Soldani-Benzi, of Florence, one being of Dr. J. Inglis, cast in

1703, the other, cast in 1709, being of H. Newton, the Ambassador Extraordinary for Britain to the Grand Duke of Tuscany and to the Republic of Genoa. Mr. Montagu remarked upon the close similarity in the design of these two medals, which are the only specimens of the work of Soldani-Benzi in the British series.

Mr. J. Brown, Q.C., exhibited a tetradrachm of Mithridates Eupator with the date HΣ of the Pontic era = B.C. 90, the the type of which was the drinking Pegasus.

Mr. Montagu read a paper on the so-called "farthings" of Queen Anne inscribed BELLO ET PACE, 1713, which have on the reverse a figure of Britannia standing, holding an olive branch and a spear, and which he regarded as being merely jetons. (See vol. vii, p. 139.)

APRIL 21, 1887.

JOHN EVANS, Esq., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., P.S.A., President, in the Chair.

W. H. Taylor, Esq., was elected a Member of the Society.

The following presents were announced and laid upon the table :

1. Zeitschrift für Numismatik. Band xiv, Parts III, IV. From the Editor.

2. The Journal of the Institute of Bankers. Part IV. From the Institute.

Vol. viii,

3. Berliner Philologische Wochenschrift. Nos. 12-16. From the Publishers.

4. Revue Belge de Numismatique, 1887, 2nd livraison. From the Society.

5. Bulletin de la Société des Antiquaires de l'Ouest, 1886, 4o trimestre.

From the Society.