xii A7inual Eeport. [February, 1907, 



Of tlie Mennoirs fourteen numbers were published (Vol. 1., 

 Nos. 6, 8 to J 9 and Supplement L) containing 350 pages and 

 14 plates. 



The Numismatic Supplement No. 6 has been published in the 

 Journal and Proceedm'j^, Vol. I., No. 10 of 1905, under the editor- 

 ship of the Numismatic Seci^etary. 



There were also published the Index to Journal and Proceed- 

 ings^ N.S. Vol. I., and a reprint of the Rules of the Society toc^ether 

 with revised regulations regarding the submission of communica- 

 tions drawn up by the Sub-Committee appointed for the purpose. 



The size of the volume of the Journal and Froceedimjs from 

 1906 has been changed from demy octavo to royal octavo, and, from 

 the present year, 800 copies of each issue of the Jour^ial and Pro- 

 ceedings and Memoirs will be printed instead of 700. 



The exchange copies of the Society's publications are now 

 forwarded to the various Societies, <fec , through the Society's 

 London and Continental Agents instead of by post. 



In February 1906, Mr. J. Macfarlane resigned the General 

 Secretaryship and Lieut-Col. D. C. Phillott was appointed in 

 his place. Dr. E. D. Ross, the Philological Secretary, was absent 

 fi'om Calcutta for seven months, when Mahamahopadhyaya 

 Hai^aprasad Shastri carried on the duties and edited the Philo- 

 logical Section of the Journal. The Coin Cabinet was in charge 

 of Mr. H. Nelson Wright for the first; two months of the year, 

 and, for the remainder, by Mr. R. Burn, who also reported on all 

 Treasure Trove Coins sent to the Society. Mahamahopadhyaya 

 Haraprasad Sastri was in charge of Bihliotheca Indica and the 

 work of collecting Sanskrit Manuscripts. Dr. E. D. Ross was 

 in charge of the Search for Arabic and Persian MSS. The 

 Natural History Section of the Journal was edited by Mr. 

 I. H, Bur kill and the Anthropological Section b}- Dr. N. An- 

 nandale. A new section, called the ** Medical Section," was 

 added to the Society, and Major F. P. Maynard, I M.S., was 

 appointed its Secretary. 



Philology, etc. 



The only historical papers in the Memoirs are those on the 

 Asrafpur copper plate grants of Devakhadga and the cup-mark.ed 

 inscription in the Chumbi Valley. The former brings to light 

 a local dynasty of four kings in East Bengal in the 8th or 9th 



century ad., ^.e., before the supremacy of the Pal Kings was 

 established. The records speak of the organisation of several 

 Buddhist Monasteries under one supreme hend, and gives details 

 about the products of certain plots of land. The Epigraphist, 

 Babu Gangamohan Laskar, was appointed Deputy Magistrate by 

 an appreciative Government, but, unfortunately, his career was cut 

 short by his untimely death. There are also several historical 

 papers in the Journal. One of these by Babu Satya Ranjan Roy 

 is entitled " Ha jo and his Grandsons," which deals with the history 

 of Kamrup, shortly after the overthrow of the Khen dynasty of 



