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go to the Kclipse track by curiosity or some hope of adding to know- 
ledge, to remember, that well equipped parties (I hope the Madras 
Observatory may send one) are not able as a rule to choose better 
sites, from which views can be got, than many others about, and that 
there is nothing so injurious to good observation, as the motion, 
and even the presence, of strangers. Possibly volunteers may be 
wanted for some work; then, if you accept the position, do that 
work in perfect silence where it does not require speech ; but, if 
you have no share in the work, keep at a distance from those who 
have, remembering that an involuntary motion or exclamation, 
may seriously disturb those who are endeavouring to close their 
minds to the surrounding circumstances, and to concentrate them on 
the duty they have undertaken. To suffer men who are content to 
lose all the great sight of the day for work, to do their work without 
interruption, is in itself a service to science, though one which 
does not force itself into notice. 
V.—The Antiquities of Jéjpir,—by Banu CuunpDEr SEKHAR BAnuRI. 
(Abstract). 
Baba Chander Sekhar Banurji mentions early notices of Jaj- 
pir, legends connected with the invasion of Orisa by the Af- 
ghans under K4l4 Pahdr in 1558,* a description of the memorials 
of the Afghin conquest, the importance of Jajpir as a place of 
pilgrimage, and a description of temples and several other works 
of Hindi sculpture. 
The paper will be printed in the second number of Part I. of 
the Journal. 
The receipt of the following communications was announced. 
1. Monograph of Indian Cyprinide, Pt. II, by Surgeon F. Day. 
2. Note on Lieut.-Col. MacMaster’s list of birds from Nagpore, 
&e., by W. T. Blanford. 
* This is the year mentioned by Stirling. But the Akbarnamah gives 
A. H. 975, or A. D. 1567. Such as take an interest in the history of Orisa, 
should read the beginning of the annals of the 37th year of Akbar’s reign as 
given in the Akbarniémah, provided that good MSS. are obtainable, There are 
most extraordinary differences between Abulfazl’s account and that of Stirling, 
which professes to be taken from the Piri Vainsavali. The period of Orisa 
history in the Akbarnéimah extends from-about 1500 to the end of the 16th 
century.—THE Epiror, 
