JUNE 24, 1852.

ANNIVERSARY MEETING.

JOHN B. BERGNE, ESQ., Treasurer, in the Chair.

The Report of the Council on the FOURTEENTH ANNIVERSARY, was read as follows::

In presenting to the Society the usual brief annual summary of their proceedings and condition, the Council commence by stating that, during the past year, only one Member has been lost by death; namely, Mr. Isaac Cullimore.

Mr. Cullimore was one of the original Members of this Society. He contributed one or two papers to its transactions soon after its establishment, and for a short time filled the office of one of its Secretaries. His researches were, however, chiefly directed to Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities and chronology in connection with Biblical literature. He also devoted considerable time and labour to the study of the cuneiform system of writing. Mr. Cullimore was for many years an active member of the Royal Society of Literature, and contributed several papers to its transactions. His death took place at Clapham, on the 12th of April last.

It is not always easy to ascertain with certainty the casualties among the list of our Foreign Associates. One name, however, the Council regret to mention as having been removed from the number by death during the past year, that of Mr. H. P. Borrell, of Smyrna, who has for many years been so well known to all students of Greek coins throughout Europe. He went from London to Smyrna, where he established himself in business as a merchant, and resided for the long period of thirty-three years, until his death, which took place on the 2nd October, 1851. He found leisure amidst his mercantile engagements to pursue his numismatic studies; and, partly from his own knowledge and diligence, and partly from the favourable nature of his place of residence, he met with unusual success in the discovery of inedited Greek coins. These he frequently illustrated by papers which have at various times been published in the Numismatic Chronicle, in the Revue Numismatique, and in the various German periodicals devoted to numismatic science. The only distinct work which he ever printed is an "Essay

on the Coins of Cyprus," a thin 4to. volume, published at Paris in 1836.

The number of ascertained resignations and secessions during the year has been four; and the following four gentlemen have been elected as Members:

Mr. John Allan Carnegie de Balinhard, of Boulogue-sur-Mer.
Mr. William Chaffers, F.S.A., of Old Bond-street.

Mr. Thomas Faulkner, F.S.A., of Oak Villa, Birkenhead.
Mr. Charles Bridger, of Keppel-street, Russell-square.
Monsieur Sabatier, member of the Imperial Archæological Society
of St. Petersburgh, has been elected an associate.

In the course of the Session, Mr. Akerman and Mr. Charles Roach Smith, have been, by a unanimous vote of the Society, constituted Honorary Members, as a slight testimony of gratitude for their valuable and gratuitous services as Honorary Secretaries for many years. The numerical state of the Society is now as follows:Original. Elected. Honorary. Associates.

Members

Total.

June, 1851

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An abstract of the Receipts and Expenditure of the Society for the past year is annexed. The accounts have this day been audited by Mr. Oldfield and Mr. Wilkinson, two of the Auditors appointed at the meeting of the 27th May (the third, Mr. Walter Hawkins, having been prevented from attending), and shew a balance of £70 198. 5d. in the hands of the Treasurer, after the payment of all claims upon the Society to this day, with the exception of two of small amount, for which application had not been made before the closing of the

account.

* It was not until after the presentation of this report, that the news was received of the death of Mr. Vint of Colchester, which took place at that town on the 22nd of June. The number of members is thus reduced to 139.

Statement of the Receipts and Disbursements of the Numismatic Society, from June 20, 1851, to June 23, 1852.

THE NUMISMATIC SOCIETY IN ACCOUNT WITH JOHN B. BERGNE, TREASURER.

To Balance at Bankers.

£198 15 2

The following papers have been read before the Society during the past Session. Some of those which presented features of the greatest novelty or interest have been published in the Numismatic Chronicle; and of the remainder, some notice will be found in the Abstract of Proceedings.

1. On the letters CONOB, found in the exergue of Roman coins of the Lower Empire. By Mr. Stevenson.

2. On a gold coin of Pescennius Niger, found at Antioch; and on a find of sceattæ in East Friesland:-3. On a gold medal, struck in the year 1628 to commemorate the raising of the siege of Stralsund. By Mr. Akerman.

4. On some small brass coins, apparently of Tetricus, found in a creek of Falmouth harbour, thirty fathoms below the bed of the river:-5. On the dollars of Louis I. of Bavaria, with historical reverses. By Mr. Sainthill.

6. On a coin in the British Museum, hitherto ascribed to King Stephen; but now attributed to an Earl of Warwick :-7. On some rare coins, in his own collection. By Mr. Evans.

8. On a work on Chinese coins, in the Library of the Numismatic Society :-9. On a small collection of Chinese coins, in the possession of Mr. H. S. Bohn. By Mr. Williams.

10. Remarks on a Warrant of Charles I. for preparing a gold medal with the portraits of himself and Prince Charles, for presentation to Sir Robert Welch. By Mr. Hawkins.

11. On some Greek coins lately examined at Athens. By Mr. Newton.

12. On a list of unpublished Roman coins of various emperors, from Gallienus to Valentinian:-13. On some British silver coins, recently found at Weston, in Norfolk. By Mr. C. Roach Smith.

14. On a coin of Cosmo I. de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1537-74:-15. A Memoir of John Croker, chief engraver to the Mint during the reigns of Anne, George I., and George II. By Mr. Pfister.

16. On a full-faced coin of Carausius:-17. On unpublished pennies of Cuthred and Baldred, kings of Kent, and of William the Conqueror -18. On another unpublished penny of Baldred, king of Kent. By Mr. Bergne.

The following presents have been made to the Society by its members and friends :