In the preparation of the work, which gives a general sketch of the early development of the East India Company and of its coinage, to which the author has added a catalogue of those coins which are contained in the collection of the Madras Museum, he has received great assistance from Bruce’s ‘Annals of the Honorable East India Company’. To the British Museum he is greatly indebted for casts of many coins which are not in the Madras Museum collection. In 1887 he was engaged in going carefully over the records of the Madras Mint, from which such information was extracted as he thought to be of value and interest. The opportunity of examining, in like manner, the records of the other Indian mints did not offer itself. He hoped that this somewhat ungrateful task will eventually be carried out by numismatists in the other Presidencies. The plates were lithographed made by a Native draftsman. The book is immensely beneficial to all. About the Author :- Edgar Thurston CIE was a superintendent at the Madras Government Museum who contributed to studies in the Zoology, Ethnology and Botany of India and published works related to his work at the museum. Thurston was educated in medicine and lectured in anatomy at the Madras Medical College while also holding his position at the museum. His early works were on numismatics and Geology and these were followed by researches in anthropology and ethnography. He succeeded Frederick S. Mullaly as the superintendent of ethnography for the Madras Presidency. Thurston was appointed to the Ethnographic Survey of India project, established at that time following the success of Herbert Hope Risley’s Ethnographic Survey of Bengal. Risley was an adherent to the theories of scientific racism and had been appointed as director of Ethnology in India. The Title ‘History Of The Coinage Of The Territories Of The East India Company In The Indian Peninsula And Catalogue Of The Coins In The Madras Museum