xviii Annual Report. [ February, 1906. 
Memoirs have appeared and others are in the press. Of the 
published Memoirs one is of great general interest, illustrating the 
close relations between animism and the beginnings of physical 
more ambitious task of treating his theme in a comparative manner, 
from the standpoint of a wide and deep study of allied and conflict- 
ing phenomena. In India the compiler (acknowledged as such) 
and the recorder can add very largely to the sum of human know- 
ledge, but if they mingle things new and old indiscriminately, they 
run the risk of having their work ignored by serious students of 
anthropology. The Anthropological Secretary must appeal to con- 
tributors not to cast on him the sole burden of discovering, in every 
case, whether a communication contains sufficient original matter, 
or forms a sufficiently “thorough” account, to merit publication. 
The bulk of anthropological literature is already so eat, anc 
increases so rapidly, that unnecessary repetition of details can 
only complicate the student's task, If anthropology is a science, 
it merits some preliminary stud 
and 
y: . . 
scheme is in for the publication in the Memoirs 
Coins, 
Thirteen gold, one hundred and forty-six silver and one copper 
coins have been presented to the Society during the year 1905. 
The coins are of the following periods :— 
Medieval India .. Sassanian types R 
adhaiya coins AR 
Independent Bengal... Shamshuddin lliyas R 
usen Shah 
Mughal ws Akbar 4 2,R1, 41 
Jahangir 
Shahjahan 
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Carried over 
