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ceecl him. There have been no other changes among th« 

 officers of the Society. Capt. Peart was Philological Secretary 

 and editor of the Philological Section of the Journal; Dr. 

 W. A. K. Christie was Natural History Secretary and editor of 

 the Natural History Section of the Journal ; Mr. J. Coggin 

 Brown was Anthropological Secretary and editor of the Anthro- 

 pological Section of the Journal ; Dr. Satis Chandra Vidya 

 bhusana carried on the duties of the Joint Philological Secretary 

 and was in charge of the Sanskrit portion of the Bibliotheca 

 Indica, while Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Shastri continued 

 as Officer-in-Charge of the Search for Bardic Chronicles, and of 

 the work of collecting Sanskrit Manuscripts. Capt. Peart was 

 also Officer-in-Charge of the Arabic and Persian Search and 

 Capt. J. D. Sandes continued as Medical Secretary throughout 

 the year. The Coin Cabinet was in charge of Mr. H. Nelson 

 Wright, who has reported on all Treasure Trove coins sent to 

 the Society. 



Lectures. 



During the year the following four lectures were delivered 

 in the Society's rooms:- 1. On Recent Biological Work on 

 R.I. M.S. "Investigator," with lantern illustrations, by Capt. 

 R. B. Seymour Sewell, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., I.M.S., on the 22nd 

 January, 1913. 2. On the Distribution of the Tribes of Upper 

 Burma, with lantern illustrations, by Mr. J. Coggin Brown, 

 MSc, P.G.S., on the 19th February, 1913. 3. On the Psycho- 

 logy of Indian Music, by Mr. Alfred Westharp, Mus. Doc. 



(Munich), accompanied with selections of Indian music by 

 Mrs. Satyabala Devi, on the 14th March, 1913. 4. On the 

 Evolution of Flying Animals, with lantern illustrations, by Dr. 

 B. H. Hankin, M.A., on the 19th November, 1913. 



Philology, etc. 



Prof. H. Oldenberg, an Honorary Fellow of this Society, 

 read on the 30th January, 1913, " a note on Buddhism " which 

 gives in a short compass an interesting review of the Buddhistic 

 researches made in Europe and eventually in Asia during the 

 last thirty years. After paying a tribute to our Society the 

 erudite Professor discusses the relative priority of the Northern 

 and Southern Schools of Buddhism and arrives at the conclusion 

 that the Southern type as embodied in the Pah literature is the 

 older one, and that the philosophical thought common to both 

 has been evolved out of the Upanisad portion of the Veoic 

 literature. Mr. K. P. Javaswal, in his article on " the date of 

 Asoka's coronation," places, on the evidence of the 13th Kock 

 Edict, the aforesaid coronation in the year 272 B.C. and Chandra 

 Gupta's accession to the throne of Magadha in 324-L5 b.c In 

 an article entitled " The plays of Bhasa and king Darsaka ot 



