PROCEEDINGS OF THE NUMISMATIC SOCIETY. SESSION 1850-1. NOVEMBER 28, 1850. EDWARD HAWKINS, ESQ., President, in the Chair. The following presents, received during the recess, were announced and laid upon the table : Numi Cufici Regii Numophylacii Holmiensis, PRESENTED BY STOCKHOLM. quos omnes in terrâ Sueciæ repertos THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF digessit et interpretatus est Dr. Carolus Johannes Tornberg. 4to., pp. 316, and 14 plates. Upsal, 1848. Mémoires de la Société des Antiquaires de Mémoires de la Société des Antiquaires de THE SOCIETY. DITTO. DITTO. DITTO. PRESENTED BY Statuts de la Société des Antiquaires de l'Ouest. 8vo., pp. 7. Bulletin du premier trimestre de 1850. 8vo., pp. 24. Rapport sur les travaux de la Société des Antiquaires de l'Ouest pendant l'année 1849; par M. Lecointre Dupont, Secrétaire de la Société. 8vo., pp. 19. Géographie du moyen age étudiée par Joachim Lelewel. Atlas composé de 50 planches. 1re livraison. Oblong folio, pp. 30, and 15 maps. Brussels, 1850. Observations en réponse à quelques opinions de M. Duchalais. Par M.A. Hermand. 8vo., pp. 30. 1849. THE SOCIETY. THE AUTHOR. DITTO. Mémoire sur les Monnaies des Comtes de Svo., DITTO. DITTO. Handbuch der Griechischen Numismatik, Médailles Grecques et Romaines inédites. Die Erbauer der Paläste in Khorsabad und DITTO. DR. GROTEFEND. DITTO. 12mo., Die Reichelse Münzsammlung in St. Petersburg. Dritter Theil (The Reichel Collection of Coins at St. Petersburg. Part III.) 12mo. 1842. M. REICHEL. Journal of the British Archæological Association. No. XXIII. 8vo. October, 1850. Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. Nos. I. and II., 1846; No. III., 1847; No. IV., 1848. 8vo., pp, 97, 176, 213, and 90. Collectanea Roach } Vol. II., Part III. 8vo. London, 1850. Letter to Lord Brougham and Vaux, containing proposals for a scientific exploration of Egypt and Ethiopia. By John James Wild. 8vo., pp. 21, and 3 plates. London, 1850. PRESENTED BY THE ASSOCIATION. THE CEYLON SOCIETY. THE AUTHOR. DITTO. Read —1. A paper by Mr. Williams, the Honorary Librarian, giving some account of a Chinese work on Coins, in the library of the Society. The work in question, consisting of eight volumes, was presented to the Society some time ago by Mr. Walter Hawkins. Mr. Williams having lately paid some attention to the Chinese language, was induced to examine the book; and as the result of his investigation appeared to afford some interesting and curious information, he communicated it to the Society. Mr. Williams' paper, which is of considerable length, is printed in full in the Numismatic Chronicle, Vol. XIII. p. 143. Upon examination, the volumes in the library of the Society prove to be only a portion of another and a much larger work, bearing a title which may be expressed in English, "A Splendid Collection of Spring Shrubs." As the Chinese possess many works with titles allusive to gardens or shrubs, but which nevertheless are collections of miscellaneous literature, Mr. Williams presumes that the work to which the numismatic volumes of the Society belong, is, notwithstanding its horticultural appellation, a kind of encyclopædia of general literature, typified under the name of shrubs or herbs. He has, however, never met with it in any list of Chinese works which has fallen under his observation. The volumes under consideration form Sections 21, 22, 23, and 24, of that work, whatever it may be. |