February, 1919.] Annual Report. ix 
made for the 50 a of the Indexes for Vels. XI- cen 
1915-1917 but no manuscript has yet been received. It w 
resolved that the indexes to the papers to the ileaioant 
volumes should be prepared by the authors — and all 
authors are now asked to index their own paper 
t was also resolved to index the peste individually 
and the Indexes to Vol. III, Nos. 6 and 7 and Vol. V, Nos. 4 
and 4, were publishe 
There was also published a ‘Catalogue of the sep gi 
Serial Publications in the Principal age of Calcutta,” 
piled by Mr. S. W. Kemp, and on sale a 
Exchange of Publications. 
During the year the Council accepted two applications se 
exchange of publications, viz. :—(1) from La Société d’Etude 
Océaniennes, Papeete (Tahiti)—the Society's Journal and Pe: 
ceedings and Memoirs for their Bulletin, (2) from Tohoku 
Imperial ei eg Society’s Journal and Proceedinas 
for their Arbet 
On an S eabek from the Secretary of the Navadwipa 
Edward VII Anglo- sarge Library, one copy of each complete 
volume available of the Sanskrit series of the Bibliotheca 
Indica was presented to ths library. 
Philology, etc. 
An account of an Iranian dialect known as Ormuri or 
Bargista by Sir George Grierson has been published in the 
Memoirs of the Society, Vol. VII, No. 1, 1918. This dialect is 
spoken by a tribe which calls itself Baraki, and is settled in 
the country of the Waziris in Afghanistan. The Barakis were 
originally inhabitants of Yemen in Arabia, and were brought 
by Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni to accompany him in his in- 
vasion of India. The account of the dialect is principally 
voca 
lary of it will appear. It has been treated in the present nie 
from the point of view of comparative philology 
Rev. W. Firminger has edited the Malda Diary 
and Consultation Book, 1680-1682, in which several important 
events are recorded. The English ‘carried on business first in 
a hired house at Malda, subsequently they purchased a piece 
of land about two miles distant from their factory, now the 
civil station of Malda, and ever since known as the “ English 
Bazar.” The third part of the Diary chronicles events during 
and i to the completion of the factory at ‘“‘ English 
Bazar 
