XXiv Annual Address. [ February, 1920. 
of great importance, and Rai Bahadur Gauri Sankar Ojha has 
done a glorious service to the princes and people of Rajputana 
by publishing a history of the Sirohis and Solankis, utilizing 
’ the Bardic sources and checking them with more reliable sources 
like inscriptions, coins, ete. e has proposed to write a his- 
tory of the Rahtores too. Mr. Har Bilas Sarda has written two 
works on two of the most famous Ranas of Chitore, viz. Kuambha 
and Sanga, following faithfully in the footsteps of his illus- 
trious townsman, the Ojha. He writes in English, the Ojha in 
Hindi. 
One of the greatest literary achievements of this period 
is the Linguistic Survey of India. Dr. Grierson took an in- 
terest in Indian dialects the moment he set foot on India as a 
the Western Punjab than between Bengal and Agra. His 
Linguistic Survey is a masterly work in which he has made 
translations of the same parable into different district, sub- 
divisional and even tribal and clan languages. He has made 
wonderful discoveries of small migrations from foreign lands 
and even from Province to Province. One instance will suffice. 
He has found a Guzerat dialect prevailing among certain tribes 
in the district of Midnapore, and he has given the history of 
the migration. 
The Asiatic Society of Bengal was founded in 1784 by Sir 
William Jones with the motto “ that its scope is intended to 
include all that is created in nature and done by man within 
the geographical limits of Asia.” It was the parent of all 
Societies for Oriental Study in the world. The Bombay Society 
and the parent Society leads a vigorous but solitary existence. 
Within the last twenty years societies for Oriental Research have 
some with wide and some with local aims. But the parent 
society blesses them all and is always willing and able to ex- 
tend a helping hand to them. The Historical Societies of the 
