xii Annual Report. [ February, 1919. 
The work of the Bureau has necessarily been much less 
than in previous years as the distribution of the Catalogue to 
subscribers and the collection of subscriptions have been 
suspended, but it is hoped that next year’s report will be 
equal to the standard of pre-war years. 
Bureau of Information, 
A few questions were answered and an opinion was given 
on the Intercaste Marriage Bill. 
Sanskrit Manuscript Search and Catalogue, 
Arabic and Persian Manuscript Search and Catalogue. 
During the year ten Arabic and Persian MSS., and one 
Persian book, containing biographies of poets. were purchased 
on behalf of Government. The following four Arabic MSS. 
died 879 a.H. = 1474 a.D., a collection of legal opinions accord- 
ing to the Hanafi school. 
e second instalment of the notices on important Arabic 
and Persian MSS., found in various libraries in India, prepared 
on Suhrawardy, Officer-in-charge of the Search for 
Arabic and Persian MSS., has been published in the Journal, 
Vol. XIV, 1918, No. 8. The vi is now king an 
Nasr Gilani, to continue the preparation of the hand-list of the 
Government MSS. Under the instructions of the Officer-in- 
charge of the Search, he was deputed to the Oriental Public 
Library, Bankipur, to inspect some MSS. there and compare 
