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one hundred thousand verses, hence it is called the (Jatasahasrika. It is 

 full of repititions like many great Buddhist works. After finishing the 

 publication of the Tibetan version, Babu Pratapa fandra offered to 

 edit the Sanskrit original and the permission was gladly accorded by 

 the Council. In the very first year the learned editor has pushed the 

 work through four fasciculi. 



3. The Riyazu-s-Salatin, a history of Bengal, by Grhulan Husain 

 Salin is a well-known work written in the eighteenth century at Malda. 

 The English translation of the work has been entrusted to Maulvi 

 Abdus Salan, M.A., Bengal Provincial Service, and he has published one 

 fasciculus during the year under review. 



Search for Sanskrit Manuscripts. 



The search for manuscripts was conducted by Mabamahopadhyaya 

 Haraprasad Shastri during the year under review. About 200 manus- 

 cripts were collected and more than 200 notices of rare manuscripts 

 made in various districts of the Provinces of Bengal. The Shastri under- 

 took three trips to Nadia, one to Burdwan, and one to Puri. His assist- 

 ants, the travelling Pandits, worked in the districts of Puri and Birbhum, 

 visiting other districts too on occasions. The search in the city of 

 Navadvipa is very nearly complete. Three or four private collections 

 only remain to be examined. The examination resulted in the discovery 

 of about 30 manuscripts which were known only from quotations. 



The Report having been read and some copies having been dis- 

 tributed, the President invited the meeting to consider it at their 

 leisure. 



The President announced that only one essay had been received in 

 competition for the Elliott Prize for Scientific Research for the year 

 1902, sent to Mr. Pedler, one of the Trustees, for report, and that the 

 result had not yet been received by the Society. 



The President also announced that the Barclay Memorial Medal for 

 the year 1902 had been offered to Major Ronald Ross, F.R.C.S., C.B., 

 C.I.E., F.R.S., I.M.S. (Retired). 



The President then addressed the meeting. 



ANNUAL ADDRESS, 1902. 



Gentlemen, 



It is not incumbent on your President to deliver an Address on 

 the termination of his first year of office, and, following precedent, I 



