February, 1906. ] Annual Report. xvii 
All of these papers were at once important and interesting, and 
bore testimony to the knowledge and industry of the writer. 
The following were the more important ones:—(1) The Hierarchy 
of the Dalai Lama (1406-1745) ; (2) The Monasteries of Tibet ; and 
Natural History, etc. 
The activity of the Natural History Section of the Society has 
been well maintained during the past year, during which a number 
of important papers have been published, extending over a wide 
range of subjects. Among the Zoological contributions are four 
papers on Indian snakes and lizards r. Annandale, describing 
the additions made to the collection of the Indian Museum for some 
years past, and includiug some new species, and on the lizards of the 
Andaman Islands. The same author also contributes some other 
papers including Studies of the Fauna of Indian tanks, about 
which very little is yet known, while the earwigs of the Indian 
Museum have been nam . Burr. Botany is well repre- 
sented by further work on the Flora of the Malayan Peninsula by 
Sir George King and Mr. Gamble, and by a paper on the yams by 
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meetings more interesting than they have been for some time past, 
Anthropology, etc, 
During the past year several short communications and one 
rather lengthy one (in continuation of a former paper) have been 
published in the Journal and Proceedings, while three anthropological 
* Also noticed under the heading Anthropology. 
