x Annual Report. [February, 1919. 
Mr. H. Beveridge has contributed a paper on the Rawzat- 
ut-Tahirin, which is a general history. It begins from the earli- 
est times, and is carried down to the beginning of the 17th 
century, and contains five divisions, subdivided into chapters 
and sections. Notices of the work are found in Elliot’s History 
of India, the British Museum Catalogue of Persian MSS., and the 
Bodleian Library Catalogue, The contents of the work, and the 
discrepancies in the copies noticed in the catalogues, are fully 
set forth in the paper. 
Arabic and Persian MSS. There are notes on 4 Arabic and 
315 Persian MSS., and descriptive notes on 5 libraries visited 
by the Maulavi. 
During the year under review Mahamahopadhyaya Dr. 
Satis Chandra Vidyabhusana contributed to our Journal a 
paper on the “ Tattva-Cintamoni,” a most advanced Sanskrit 
‘‘Bhavabhuti as a Mimansaka”’ is the title of a paper in 
which Babu Dinesh Chandra Bhattacharyya identifies Bhava- 
on the authority of certain observations contained in a 
manuscript of the Malatimadhava and in a commentary on the 
itsukhi 
“A short account of the wandering teachers at the time of 
the Buddha” is the title of a contribution in which Babu 
Canakya. 
Anthropology. 
Dr. Annandale’s note in the Journal on a Bismer Weighing 
Beam from the Darjeeling District is the only paper relating 
to anthropology that has been published this year. 
Biology. 
fourth and fifth parts of Dr. Annandale’s “ Zoologi- 
The 
cal Results of a Tour in the Far East”? have appeared in the 
Memoirs. They deal with Brackish-water Polyclads (T. Kabu- 
