February, 1909.] Annual Report. Xv 
account of the sacred building, with short notices of some past 
rulers of the Province; and reproduces the inscription which 
exists on a slab affixed to the Mausoleum of Sayyid Habibullah 
Khan within ee Qadam Rasul Buildin 
M everidge in an article on the ‘* Babar- Namah 
Another learned article by Mr. H. Beveridge was published 
in the Journal for May 1908, under the title of ‘‘ The Date of 
the Salimi coins.” In this article he controverts the theory 
propounded by Rev. Taylor in connection with the Salimi coins 
that vd were not issued during the reign of Akbar, as Jahangir 
never was Governor of Gujerat, and as his rebellion did not 
extend se Ahmedabad. Mr. H. Beveridge after giving various 
reasons in support of his objections inclines to the view of the 
British Museum Catalogue that the Salimi coins were issued 
during Akbar’s lifetime. 
In the Journal for February a ‘‘ Hindustani and English 
Vocabulary of Indian Birds’? was published by Lt.-Col. D. C. 
Phillott and Pundit Gobin Lal Bonnerjee, Board of Examiners ; 
this vocabulary has been compiled almost entirely from Surg.- 
Major Jerdon’s ‘‘Birds of India,’”’ and his spelling has 
been retained, except in the cases of those words that have been 
met with by the Se ae in the course of reading. 
Lt.-Col. D. C. Phillott in his learned article, published in 
the Journal for March 1908 and entitled ‘* Translation of a ian 
by Abul Fazl,” truly remarks that these letters, which w 
once considered the acme of style, are turgid, bombastic, stale 
and frequently puerile. ‘‘ His Insha Pardazi,”’ it is sugges 
‘‘ exhibits examples of almost every vice enumerated in English 
er on Rhetoric. ee ee — is sacrificed to 
ound ; improprieties, solecisms, and barbarities abound ; the 
thought and the metaphors are oontined < or strained ; while the 
meaning of the intricate complex sentences is obscure.” 
‘**Certain disputed or doubtful events in the History of 
Bengal, Muhammadan Period,’’ Part I, by Manmohan Chakra- 
varti, M.A., B.L., M.R.A.S., published i in the Journal for April 
1908. It is asserted in this article that a large number of facts 
and events in the Pre-Moghul Period of Bengal History still 
remain doubtful or unsettled. A few of them have been selected 
y the writer for discussion, in — hope of drawing attention to 
them prominently. ‘‘Their importance,’’ the writer adds, 
‘is undoubted, and their aualon will help in giving a clearer 
iden of the peri riod.” 
In a short note entitled ‘‘ Fresh Light on the word Scarlet” 
Dr. E.D. Ross points out that the word Scarlet, which now only 
means a colour, and for a long time in Europe meant a broad- 
