February, 1915.] Annual Address. Xxix 
cases of books, sent to our agents before the outbreak of the 
war, are now on a steamer which has deviated from her 
voyage and lies interned at Syracuse. In these unfavourable 
sent. These must be classed as inevitable accidents from 
tions are occasionallv liable to suffer. It is a matter for 
keener regret, however, that this unforeseen financial difficulty 
has compelled us to restrict our expenditure on the purchase 
of new books. This is distinctly a cause for disappointment 
to our members, as in various important branches of know- 
ledge, foremost amongst them anthropology and archaeology, 
ours is practically the only reference Library accessible to 
scholars in Calcutta. 
ancient Aryan language of Turkistan, and enables us, even in 
Buddhism which prevailed in Central Asia in by-gone ages. 
Two other papers of considerable interest. to students of 
stitutes the modern District of Darbhanga. This thesis is of a 
highly controversial character, and deserves careful scrutiny by 
scholars who maintain that the Rigveda, the earliest monu- 
ment of Indo-Aryan civilization, was composed while our 
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papers purely historical, we have several 
valuable specimens. Babu Rameschandra Majumdar, who 
