his post at the Council, or at the evening meetings of the Society, so long as he held office. I shall, conformably with my proposed plan, next proceed to take a brief and general review of the results of our united labours during the period in which I have had the honour of presiding in this chair. These labours have added sixty-four communications to the literary records of public bodies; of which the merit is necessarily various, but of which several are of extreme value and acknowledged importance; while all are of a tendency to promote the objects of the Numismatic Society, and to familiarise and render more generally understood an important branch of history, hitherto too little attended to or appreciated in this country: that is, at the rate of about three original communications read before each of our twenty-two ordinary meetings, and of two from each of the thirty-four contributors who have favoured the Society with their communications. Our first session produced eighteen original papers, from eleven contributors, in a field of literary research which had hitherto been, in a great degree, untried on collective principles, although with great success by eminent individuals, whose labours, both past and present, it has been our object to bring into that juxtaposition, which, by leading to the comparison of means and ends, has ever been found the most profitable to the causes of inquiry and truth. The second session added twelve new names to our list of contributors, while seven of those of the preceding session continued to favour us with their assistance; and the result of their united labours was twenty-three commúnications. The third session, now about to close, has been distinguished by a further augmentation of eleven writers to support our older contributors, several of whom have continued unremitting in their efforts to promote the objects of the Society; and twenty-three communications have been the result: so that the expressive phrase, vires acquirit eundo, by which the Council have summed up our progress, is peculiarly appropriate to that branch of it on which all the rest depends; and the numerical elements of which it is, therefore, as necessary to have before you, as that of the members of the Society whose attention is thus occupied. Accurate analyses of two-thirds of these communications are now before the Society and the literary world, with such occasional illustrations in the form of annotations, as are of a tendency to render them more useful to the general antiquary and reader; and as much of the matter has been condensed into a perspicuous tabular form as the several cases admitted. By reference to these it will be found, as our Council have remarked," that, besides important additions to that branch of knowledge which it is the especial province of the Numismatic Society to cultivate, the causes of history, archæology, criticism, and art, have been materially advanced by the united labours of its members and contributors." Among the communications alluded to, there is one which peculiarly calls on the attention of the historian and the critic, independently of its deep interest in connexion with numismatic science; and this, without in the least undervaluing the other excellent papers in our. Proceedings. I feel that I cannot too often dwell upon the numismatic elucidations of history by a learned Oriental professor (p. 107, &c.); in further illustration of whose researches, which were spoken of more at length in my last address (p. 232, &c.), an extended Indo-Bactrian alphabet, or syllabary, accompanies the present. This alphabet, for which, together with the data and substance of the observations in illustration of it, I have to express my obligations to the learned editor of our Proceedings, Isaac Cullimore, Esq., and which may be considered an extension of the beautiful specimen alphabet with which |