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from Major Rogers an important paper on fevers in Dinagepore, 
followed by a very suggestive lecture on Calcutta fevers. 
In the department of Anthropology, although we have had 
important contributions to local folklore and ethnology, I am 
afraid it would be difficult to say that it has aroused as much in- 
terest as pale nature eg importance would justify. os conmaghon 
made an wittportant suggestion which, w tt is oaested oat with 
the co-operation of our ee will, I roy promote and popu- 
larise its study. The prop to publish in our Memoirs a 
series of papers entitled “ Miisvellanes Rihnhgraphion:” giving illus- 
trations and descriptions of implements, utensils, apparatus, weapons 
and nin 8 from different parts of India and the neighbouring 
countri The scheme is one of great practical importance, 
me: “if realized, it will help to bring together and preserve a 
mass of scattered know ledge which would otherwise be probably 
lost. Very little information is available regarding the distribu- 
tion, uses, and manufacture of the common implements of the 
people, specially me apparatus used by different tribes and castes 
in agriculture, hunting and other pursuits of daily life. It is 
great mistake to suppose that specimens of these are of value aly 
if they are objects of rarity or artistic workmanship. It is equally 
erroneous to hold that such specimens are of value only if they 
are habitually used by primitive races in the lowest scale of civ ili- 
zation. The truth is that these implements of daily life, if proper- 
ly studied, furnish an excellent guide in the examination of the 
ence. 
specimens should be collected, classified and studied, before they dis- 
appear in the face of the European or semi- _ n methods an 
sapheanents which are sae pas their a, He ma y aacedbions. 
. Annandale 
mem 
Das ing the last el ie eee of Oriental works and 
their translations in the s known as the “ Bibliotheca Indica ” 
has been carried on as ge more than ised zeal and activity. As a 
see not only has the surplus in this fund been exhausted, 
but e Society has found it necessary to contribute 
hei a sum of Rs. 2,000 to meet the expenses for 
work already done. There will consequently be a reduction in 
the number of works to be published in the course of the present 
year, and the Council have decided that, in future, a complete list 
of the works which may be undertaken in the course of any one 
session, must be definitely settled and budgetted for in advance. 
Of the works which have been published during the year in the 
