XXVi Annual Address. [February, 1909. 
, has given us two important papers, but till the series is 
completed, it would be hardly right to criticise his views. The 
same i as given us valuable notes on the ancient 
geography of Bengal and has traced the variations of territorial 
limits through the various periods of Bengal history. He has 
also described for us a series of valuable drawings of antiquities 
i issa which were deposited in our library by Col. Mackenzie 
so far back as 1822. It would be a mistake to suppose, 
however, that the interest of all our members who are experts 
in one or other department of Indian Philology or Antiquity 
has been absorbed in the solution of problems in the Mahom- 
edan period of Indian history. The history of the great 
founder of Buddhism and of Buddhistic philosophy has claimed a 
fair share of the attention of well-known scholars. Professor 
Norman has placed at our disposal from Pali sources valuable 
information as to the life and teachings of Buddha. One of 
his papers gives us what we are assured is an authentic account 
of Buddha’s habits as a private individual—information which 
must be of as much interest to the devotees of that religion 
as the details of the life and teachings of Christ and Mahomet 
are to the followers of Christianity and Islam. Another paper 
us 
recovered from Tibet and dealing with Madhyamic Philosophy, 
an extremely recondite system of Indian thought, our know- 
