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28 PROCEEDINGS OF THE1899 I am indebted for these particulars. The same periodicalcontains a list of no less than a hundred and fifty-sixarticlesand separate works of which he was the author, or occasionallythe joint author. His death, at an age below 37, has cut shorta most promising career. Those who were brought in contactwithhim in business relations can bear testimony to the uprightnessof his character and to his quickness of perception. PersonallyI much regret his loss, and not the less so because I had in oldtimes the pleasure of being acquainted with both his father andgrandfather before him.It is with deep regret that I have to record the decease ofProfessor Adolf Holm, who, though not an Honorary Memberof our Society, deserved well of numismatic science. He wasone of those few historians who accept the testimony of coinsat its proper value in relation to history. His GriechischeGeschichte has been translated into the English language, andoccupies a deservedly high position, while his History of Sicilyand its coins down to the time of Augustus formed the subjectof an appreciative review by my son, Mr. Arthur Evans, in theChronicle two years ago, and was cited by me as one of themost valuable numismatic works of the year in my AnniversaryAddress for 1898.He died after a long illness at Freiburg im Breisgau, onJune 9th of the present year, in the seventieth year of his age.Turning now to the subjects that have been brought underour consideration during the past year, I find that, apart fromnumerous and important exhibitions of rare and interestingcoins and medals, the memoirs that have been read at ourmeetings extend, as usual, over a very wide field.Those relating to the Greek coinages occupy the first place,at all events chronologically, if not indeed otherwise.Sir Hermann Weber, in a paper on Finds of Archaic GreekCoins in Lower Egypt, has described between thirty and fortycoins from a hoard discovered at Sakha, of which a somewhatlarger number of coins seem to have been dispersed. They