xii Annual Address. fFebruary, 1920. 
ndex slips amounting to 255 were despatched during the 
year; about 150 have still to be received back after examina- 
tion, and will be despatched in the course of a month or so. 
Bureau of Information. 
A few questions were answered. 
Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Shastri, M.A., C.LE., 
F.A.8.B., delivered an address to the Society. 
Annual Address, 1919, 
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, 
It w my turn to read my address. The Annual 
Addresses of the Society may be divided into four distinct classes, 
namely :-— 
(1) A glorified paraphrase of the Annual Report in which 
the work of the Society is magnified, to fill 18 or 20 sheets 
of foolseap. 
dent edits them with his own notes, remarks, amplifications 
and modifications. Such addresses were begun by Raja 
Rajendra Lal Mitra in 1885 and improved upon and perfected 
by Sir Charles Elliot and Sir Alfred Croft. 
e third class of addresses deals with a point in 
which the President is a specialist and in which the general 
public is anxious to get information. Sir Leonard Rogers’ 
‘Kala Ajar” and Dr. Hayden’s “ Age of Man”’ are the best 
specimens of this class of address. 
(4) The fourth class gives the history of the progress of 
Oriental Studies during the President’s period of literary 
activity in India. To this class belongs the late lamented Dr. 
Rudolf Hoernle’s address in 1898. A similar review was given 
fourteen years more. I wish to follow in his footsteps and 
continue the work begun by him from 1898 to 1919. 
But before I commence my address it is my duty to 
acknowledge my deep obligations to Dr. Christie, the General 
Secretary, to whose untiring activity and sound judgment is 
due the smooth working of the Society for the year. 
The greatest event of the period under review is the 
