xlvi Annual Address. [February, 1915, 
them to be lost or destroyed; the acquisitions to history that 
can be expected as the result of the exploration of these mate- 
tion, that the history of their glorious past be investigated and 
preserved. 
s only one other topic to which I shall invite your 
attention before 1 bring this address to a close—a subject o 
striking interest. not merely to the scholarly investigator but 
also to the practical administrator—L mean the system of juris- 
tbrow of the latter. The consequence was that the Government 
adopted what now seems an obviously illogical attitude, 
namely, that all oriental works then in hand should be discon- 
tinued, and a resolution was issued which explicitly directed 
medan Law. When we 
Dm Mosl ed in the opinion expressed 
by a distinguished Mahomedan Jurist, the Right Hon. Syed 
Amir Ali.“ Neill Baillie’s paraphrase of the Fatawa Alamgiti 
and Hamilton’s translation of the Persian rendering of the 
