XXvl Annual Report. {February, 1915, 
9. Amal-i-Salih or Shah-Jahan Namah of M ohammad 
Salik Kambu—the text edited by Prof. G. Yazdani. 
10. History of Shistar—the text of an account of Shtustar 
from the earliest time to a.H. 1169, edited by Khan 
Bahadur Maula Bakhsh. 
Search for Arabic and Persian Manuscripts. 
The policy of ascertaining the existence and whereabouts 
of rare MSS. followed during the preceding two years has been 
maintained. 
With this object the first travelling Maulavi has been 
examining the contents of several libraries not visited in pre- 
ceding years. 
The Maulavi visited five libraries at Lucknow, one at 
Kakari, one at Muradabad and three at Rampir, and also 
examined the stocks of several MSS. dealers at Lucknow and 
Muradabad. Notices of these MSS., as well as of those of the 
more important MSS. in the Government of India collection, 
have been prepared and will be submitted shortly. 
The Government of India has continued the grant of 
Rs. 5,000 a year for the next five years for the purposes for 
which the Research Fund was instituted. 
Bardie Chronicles. 
Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Shastri submitted his 
Preliminary Report and his scheme on the search of Bardic 
Chronicles last year. The submission of the scheme completed 
the work which he offered to do for the Society in his note to 
the Council of the Asiatic Society of Bengal in February 1908. 
Dr. L. P. Tessitori was appointed to carry on the work. 
At the time of the Shastri’s appointment it had been 
found impossible to obtain the services of anyone who had 
specialized in the languages of which a thorough knowledge is 
essential to success in this work ; and the thanks of the Society 
are due to the Shastri for pushing on the work as best he could in 
the absence of such special knowledge. It is unfortunate, but 
scarcely his fault, that the copies of Bardic manuscripts which 
he got together have proved to have no philological value. 
This, however, is the judgment which Dr. Tessitori has regret- 
fully passed upon them. Now that Government has been 
fortunate enough to secure, in Dr. Tessitori, a scholar with 
the special knowledge requisite for the work, there is evety 
reason to expect that results of real philological interest will 
be forthcoming, if means can be found to cover the necessary 
continuous expenses of the work. Dr. Tessitori has sent in an 
account of the work which has occupied him since his arrival in 
India. This account serves as an introduction to his scheme 
