eS eT, 
February, 1906. |] Annual Report. XXV 
similar to the work of Chand Bardai already published by the 
Society, and as a preliminary to make a inspection of libraries of 
Rajputana and Gujrat believed to contain such works. For this 
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The Report having been read and some copies having been dis- 
tributed, the Hon. Mr. Justice Asutosh Mukhopadhyaya, Vice- 
President, addressed the meeting. 
Annual Address, 1905, 
uring many years past, it has been the established practice 
for the President of our Society to deliver an address on the 
the attention of our members. On the present occasion, all of 
us had hoped to listen to the eloquent words of His Honour the 
Lieutenant-Governor, and to benefit by his kindly advice and 
encouragement. But public business of a pressing character has 
kept him away, and no one, I know, regrets his absence more 
keenly than His Honour himself does; our rules, however, are 
that the dates of our meetings cannot be 
i our President. It 
as to make it impossible f 
the work of the Society during the year 1905, 
of the researches in which the Society is interested. I must con- 
sequently crave your indulgence for confining my remarks to a few 
points of special interest and importance, 
During the last year, the mater al prosperity of the Society 
has been satisfactory, and the number of members rolls 
now exceeds what it has been in recent years. But we have | 
ing the year, one of our most distinguished Past Presidents, 
ife-members and subsequently an 
of the scientific work of 
f 
Dr. W. T. Blanford, who passed of years and 
an a passing reference on the present occa- 
sion. He joined the Society in 1859, and the number of papers he 
had contributed to our Journal and Proceedings between that date 
and 1883 exceeds seventy. I make a pointed reference to this fact, 
