XXxil Annual Address. {February, 1915, 
ties in the country, there is no occasion to be dissatisfied with 
the contributions made by our members in the department of 
Physics, Chemistry, Zoology, Botany and Geology. We have, 
in the first place, published a series of important papers read 
under the auspices of the Society. Indeed, I think we may 
safely maintain that all that was not of ephemeral interest and was 
worthy of permanent preservation have found a place in our 
publications. In addition to this, we have continued the publi- 
cation of zoological papers dealing with the extensive collec- 
tion made by Dr. Annandale in Galilee. We have also pub- 
lished an extremely interesting account of the fauna of the 
limestone caves of Burma and the Malay Peninsula by Dr. 
Annandale and Messrs. Coggin Brown and Gravely. I have 
selected these papers out of a large number for special men- 
cally undertaken. At the same time, I have not the remotest 
desire to underrate the value of other scientific contributions 
of our scholars may, I trust, be profitably directed. 
One important department which still awaits systematic 
exploration by the assiduous and brilliant investigator is that 
of Tibetan Studies. Here, indeed, is a field which, it seems to 
me, should have a special attraction to our members interest- 
ed in philological and antiquarian studies. It was through 
the never-failing exertions of the great Hungarian scholar, 
Alexander Csoma de Koros, one of the most illustrious names 
on the bead-roll of our members, that the mysteries of the 
Tibetan language and literature were first satisfactorily solved. 
To the intuitive insight and penetrative genius of Csoma, we 
owe the first Tibetan Grammar and Tibetan Dictionary pub- 
lished by us, and though much has been investigated and 
brought to light since his days, his pioneer work has never 
een superseded. Since then, the supreme importance of 
Tibetan studies to the investigator of the history, religion and 
culture of early and medieval India has been realized in an 
ever-increasing degree. It is now well known that there lie 
