ABSTRACT
The Professor E. H. Johnstons sudden death in October, 1942, was a grievous blow to Oriental research. Sir Richard Burn, called in by the authorities of Balliol College to go through his papers, found amongst them a rough manuscript article and other material on the Sanskrit inscriptions of Arakan, with correspondence on the subject with Mr. G. H. Luce and other scholars who supplied him with rubbings and photographs. The type seems to occur all over Burma and even in Siam, and it seems, from Sir R. Temple, in the Indian Antiquary for 1927 and 1928 that similar coins were struck in Calcutta for a king of Burma some time before 1823. Professor Johnston's article, besides its palographic interesthis remarks on this subject have not been omittedis of historical importance, as giving the first solid foundation for the study of ancient Arakan, and as indicating the valuable results likely to be achieved by full-scale archological excavation at Vesl, and Mrohaung.
