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unavoidable iiiterruptiou in the publication, of ihis part of the Journal 

 will, it is hoped, not be repeated in future, and the Editor has now 

 ill the press a series of papers which it is anticipated will fulfil our 

 obligations to the Local Governments which liave generously guaranteed 

 a grant for publishing papers on Anthropologj'. 



The duties of the Philological Secretary have been shared during 

 the year by Dr. T. Bloch, in charge of Journal, Part I, and the Coins, and 

 Mahamahopadhyaya liaraprasad Shastri in charge of the Bihliotheca 

 Indica and the work of collecting Sanskrit and Vernacular Manuscripts. 



The office of General Secretary has been held throughout the year 

 by Mr. T. H. Holland, -whilst the Society is indebted to Mr. W. K. Dods 

 for coutiuuing the duties of Treasurer during the period under report. 



Publications. 



There were published during the year ten numbers of the PrO" 

 reedings (Nos. 10 & 11 of 1899 and Nos. 1-10 of 1900), containing 

 160 pages of letter-press ; one number of the Journal, Part I (No. 1 of 

 1900 I, containing 92 pages of letter- press ; four numbers of the Journal, 

 Part II (No. 4 of 1899 and Nos. 1-3 of 1900), containing 580 pages of 

 letter- press and a plate of 1898. There were also published a catalogue 

 of the Society's Sanskrit books and MSS., Part II, and the Index to 

 Journal, Part Iliov 1899. 



Journal, Part I. 



Of the tirst part of the Society's Journal only two numbers have 

 been published during the past year, each of about a hundred pages. 

 Of these. No. 1 was issued in August last, and No. 2 is just being 

 printed off and will shortly be published. 



It is in kee|)ing with the traditions of our Society that of the 

 papers publislied during (he last year, not less than five deal with 

 inscriptions. Of these inscriptions, three are published for the first time, 

 while the remaining two are second and improved editions of docunienJs 

 Jilready known. The first pnpcr to be noticed is an edition by Babu 

 Nagendranntha Vasu of a new copper-plate inscription of Madanapala 

 the original of which was piesented to our Society by Mi*. N. K. 

 Bose, OS., and exliibited to the Society at its Annual Meeting in 

 1899. The plate was found in the Dinajpur District, the old strong- 

 hold of the Pala Kings of Bihar and Western Bengal. It gives us a 

 long list of kings belonging to this dynasty, not less than seventeen, 

 down to Madanapala, who must have lived somewhere near the begin- 

 ning of the 12th century A.D. It was a happy coincidence that some 

 of the name« of these kings, all previously unknown to us, were 



