* Annual Report. [February, 1920. 
a eat on the Godaveri in the Sironcha Tahsil of the Chanda 
District P: 
a Anothnt Hindu Astronomy’”’ is the title of paper in 
which an attempt has been made by Mr. G. R. Kaye to 
express in modern mathematical language fundamental prin- 
ciples that were utilised by the old Indian Astronomers. The 
show the remarkable a standard that was achieved 
in India over a thousand years 
“ The Outlines of odiacedl Chattisgarh ” is the name of 
a paper in which Mr. C. W. Wills traces the history of Chattis- 
garh and gives many interesting particulars thereof which had. 
been gathered by him during his official career as a Settlement 
Officer 
Lt.-Col. T. W. Haig has contributed a paper which 
contains an account of the life of the poet Azari, who was 
born at Isfarayin in Persia in A.H. 784=A.D. 138 82.. The 
writer's main sources of information are Daulat Shah’s 
Tazkiratw’sh-Shu‘ara and Firishta’s History of India. The 
poet was first patronised by Shah Rukh Sultan, Taimir’s third 
son, who reigned in Khurasan, but later on , he came to India, 
and found a patron in Ahmad Shah Wali. the pith King of 
the Bahmani dynasty, and commenced to compose the epic 
known as Bahman Nama. He left India in A.H. 836 = 
1432 before it was finished, but continued it till his death at 
Isfarayin in A.H. 866 — AD. 1461. 
Mr. Beveridge has contributed a paper in which the 
sources of the Akbar Nama are enumerated. He suggests 
that they should be edited and re-translated, and ever 
endeavour should be made to find out those which have dis- 
appeared. 
adopted by Mrs. shh if in her translation of the Emperor’s 
‘Turkish Memoirs 
Anthropology. 
No anthropological papers have been published in 1919. 
Biology. 
The following is a list of the papers published :— 
ZOoLoey. 
(1) A oe of three species of Echiuroids found in 
brackish waters on t cs — of the Bay of Bengal and the 
Gulf of Siam, ra BP 
(2) Ort rthoptera me se known from es Se caves in 
the Malay Peninsula and Burma, by L. Cho opar 
