Menuas, to judge from his inscriptions, was preeminently a builder. His name has the form of a perfect pass, participle, but I do not know the meaning of the stem menu. A district of Armenia, north of Lake Van, is still called Manavaz; possibly it derived its name from the old Vannic king. At all events, it has nothing to do with the Mannai of the Assyrian inscriptions, the Mana of the Vannic texts, and the Minni of the Old Testament, called Minyans by Nikolaos of Damascus, who lay between the kingdom of Van and Lake TJrurniyeh (see pp. 389, 400).

Page 453, line 26. For there read these.

Page 463, line 20. For l. read li.

Page 496, note 1. For lxv. read xlv.

Page 632. For xlvii. read xlviii.

[The text of the Śikshā-patrī of the modern Vaishṇava Sect, called Svāmi-Nārāyaṇa, was lithographed in Samvat 1928 (A.D. 1872) by order of the Heads of the Sect. It has a Gujarātī Commentary by Nityānanda-muni. So far as I know, this is the only version of the text that has yet appeared. It was given to me by the Wartāl Māharāja on the occasion of my first visit to Wartāl in 1875. It is full of mistakes, and in preparing the following edition of the text I have taken as my guide the far more accurate manuscript and Sanskṛit commentary written by Paṇḍit Śatānanda-muni, and given to me by the Mahārāja on the same occasion.]

In preparing the eighth volume of the Catalogue of Oriental Coins in the British Museum, which will describe the coins of the Turks, I found myself confronted at the outset with a serious obstacle in the shape of twenty-five coins of various Turkish Amírs of Asia Minor, of whose history and chronology almost nothing appeared to be known, and of whose coinage the only examples hitherto published were five specimens (three varieties) described by Dr. E. von Bergmann and by Prof. J. Karabacek respectively, in the “Berichte” of the Vienna Academy, and in the “Numismatische Zeitschrift.” The twenty-five examples in the British Museum had long remained unnoticed. Some I found in the 'Othmánly series; but most of them were discovered and partly identified by my uncle, the Keeper of Coins. The inscriptions were for the most part clear enough; and the difficulty consisted simply in the fact that the history of the princes who issued them was not generally known or easily accessible. The trouble and research that were necessary before I could arrange and attribute the coins and draw up approximately complete chronological lists of these dynasties and princes, are, I think, a sufficient excuse for the following pages, in which I shall try to smooth the way for my successors.

More than two years ago, the 10th of May, 1880, at a special meeting of the Royal Asiatic Society, I presented a paper on L'Histoire de la Langue Chinoise, in which I communicated my discoveries on the old phonetic laws of the orthography of the Ancient Chinese writing,—the derivation of this writing from the pre-cuneiform characters of Southwestern Asia,—and also the nature and contents of the long-disputed book, the Yh-King. I have delayed the printing of that paper in order to make it more precise and complete, but parts of its contents, as well as several results of my researches, have been published, by my friend Prof. R. K. Douglas and by myself.