February, 1909.] Annual Address. XXV 
promotion of Sanskrit studies in the Western Presidency, and 
after his retirement had communicated to our Journal valuable 
papers on inscriptions of historical importance. The venerable 
figure of the Reverend Father Eugene Lafont will long be re- 
membered by many of us who had the privilege to listen with 
pleasure and profit to his brilliant exposition of recent scientific 
would now turn for a moment to the work (literary and 
scientific) which has been done by our members during the 
past 12 months. Our recent publications may perhaps be open 
to the criticism that they do not show an abundance of first-rate 
original production, but I think that even the most captious 
