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accordingly expressed a desire to be relieved of the office of Philological 

 Secretary, the duties of which have been readily undertaken by Mr. 

 C. R. Wilson, with the exception of the nuniismatical work which 

 Dr. Hoernle has consented to retain. Mr. W. L. Sclater has been no 

 less devoted and successful as Editor of the Natural History section of 

 the Journal. On his taking furlough to Europe, Dr. Tull Walsh very 

 kindly consented to take up these duties. Lastly, on Raja Rajendrahila 

 Mitra's death, Pandit Hara Prasad Shastri was invited by the Council to 

 undertake the duties connected with the search for Sanskrit MSS., and 

 with the supervision of the Sanskrit portion of the Bibliotheca Indica 

 publications. For such duties he is eminently fitted, and he has been 

 recommended by the Council for appointment as additional Philological 

 Secretary, in order to enable him to discharge them more effectively. To 

 all these gentlemen, and to our Honorary Treasurer, Dr. W. King, the 

 Society rests under deep obligations, and I would ask you to pass a 

 cordial vote of thanks to them for their services so freely rendered 

 during the past year. {The vote of thanks was carried by acclamation). 



My own obligations to the Secretaries and other members of the 

 Society are of a different kind. In the review that follows I have had 

 to rely very largely — in the department of Natural Science I may say 

 entirely — on the assistance of gentleman who are experts in their re- 

 spective branches of knowledge, and I beg to offer them my cordial 

 thanks for the help so willingly rendered. I am especially indebted 

 to Dr. Hoernle, Dr. Tull Walsh, Mr. Cotes, Dr. Prain, Pandit Hara 

 Prasad Shastri, Col. Thuillier, R. e., Col. Waterhouse, Mr. C. R. Wilson, 

 Mr. Wood-Mason, Babu Sarat Chandra Das, c. i. e., and, for constant 

 assistance of every kind, to Mr. Little. 



I begin, therefore, with some notes on the literary and archaaoloo-ical 

 - department of our work, including Philology, 



History, Ethnology, Archaeology, Epigraphy 

 and Numismatics. Papers on nearly all these subjects have been pub- 

 lished in Part I of the Journal and in the Proceedings. Of the Journal, 

 Part I, two numbers have been issued ; a third is nearly ready and was 

 to have been issued before the close of the year. It has been delayed by 

 fresh researches, resulting in important discoveries regarding the Bower 

 MS., of which an account will be given later on. 



Under the head of Philology the publications of the Bibliotheca 



Bibliotheca Indica. Indim occupy an im P ortant F*«»- D ™"S 

 the year 34 fasciculi have been issued, includ- 

 ing 20 Sanskrit, 11 Arabic and Persian, and 3 Tibetan publications. 

 As already explained, a larger number might have been produced, but the 



