John Allan (numismatist) the Numismatic Supplement to the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and the "Museums Journal". He also contributed to the "Encyclopaedia of Islam" (1st edition), the "Encyclopædia Britannica" (14th edition), the "Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics" (1914), and the "Chambers's Encyclopaedia" (1950). The following is a selection of his publications: John Allan (numismatist) John Allan, (8 August 1884 – 29 August 1955) was a British numismatist and scholar of Sanskrit. Allan was a noted numismatist and produced the first systematic study of the coins the Gupta Empire, which remains a standard reference today. Allan was born in Bolton, East
Collect meant the gathering of the people together (from "colligō", "to gather") and may have been applied to this prayer as said before the procession to the church in which Mass was celebrated. It may also have been used to mean a prayer that collected into one the prayers of the individual members of the congregation. A collect generally has five parts: In some contemporary liturgical texts, this structure has been obscured by sentence constructions that depart from the Latin flowing style of a single sentence. Initially, only one collect was said at Mass, but the Tridentine version of the Roman