The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

8 PROCEEDINGS OF THE
the 1149 of Hoveden's chronicle to the so-called "Duke's
money " ; probably the Empress withdrew her name from
the coinage in favour of her son's in the second half of 1142
when she abandoned her claim to the throne and put forward
the claim of the young Henry. (This paper is printed in
this volume, pp. 105-20.)
JANUARY 21, 1915.
SIR ARTHUR EVANS, P.S.A., F.K.S., &c., President, in
the Chair.
The Minutes of the Meeting
of December 17 were read
and approved.
M. Georges Kasquin was proposed for election as a Fellow
of the Society.
The following Presents to the Society were announced
and laid upon the table, and thanks ordered to be sent
to their donors.
1. American Journal of Archaeology. Vol. viii, Pt. 4.
2. Fornvannen, Meddelanden fran K. Vitterhets Historic
och Antikvitets Akademien, 1913.
3. Eivista Italiana di Numismatica. Pts. 3 and 4, 1914.
Mr. Percy H. Webb exhibited a Belgian 20 franc note dated
August 27, 1914, printed in Brussels from the old plates of
Leopold I's notes, after the removal of the current plates to
safety ;
this he has since presented to the British Museum.
Mr. Henry Symonds, F.S.A., showed a fine series of
Anglo-Saxon and Norman coins of Ethelstan (^Ethelwine
of Shaftesbury), Edgar (Bruninc of Norwich), Hardicanute
(Godwine of Dorchester), Harold II (Dunning of Hastings),
William I (Alnoth of Shaftesbury), and William II (legelric
of Wareham).