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also contributed a paper on the resemblances which exist 

 between colloquial Hindustani and the language of the Euro- 

 pean Gypsies. Mr. J. Coggin Brown has given an account of 

 the A-ch'ang or Maingtha tribe of the Hohsa-Lahsa States in 

 Yunnan, and has attempted to prove that the groupingof these 

 people with the Tai is incorrect, and that they are really 

 an almost submerged Tibeto-Burman clan. 



The important branch of prehistoric archaeology has re- 

 ceived some attention. Babu H. C. Das Gupta has described 

 two spade celts from Assam, and has added evidence which 

 helps towards the association of these and similar forms with 

 the ancestors of the Mon-Hkmer peoples. Mr. J. Coggin 

 Brown exhibited a number of polished stone implements from 

 Yunnan before a meeting of the Society. 



An exhaustive memoir by Mr. James Hornell on the anti- 

 quity and present condition of the Chank Bangle Industry in 

 India, published during the year, forms a timely contribution 



to our knowledge of an important though comparatively little 

 known art. 



Mr. F. H. Malyon's memoir on some current Pushtu folk 

 stories, also published during the year, though primarily in- 

 tended to illustrate the forms of certain dialects, is not without 

 anthropological interest, and is an instance of the manner 

 in which members of the Society, thoroughly acquainted with 

 the languages of the races amongst whom they live, may 

 advance our knowledge of Indian folklore. 



Owing to the absence of its author on the eastern frontier 

 for the greater part of the year, the memoir on the Abor and 

 Galong tribes by Sir George D. S. Dunbar, Bart., and the 

 anthropometrical supplement by Messrs. S. VV. Kemp and 

 J. Coggin Brown, which it was intended to publish during the 

 year, has been delayed. It is now in page proof and will be 

 issued shortly. The delay has not been without its advantages, 

 as it has enabled the author to add valuable appendices giving 

 the results of his recent work. This exhaustive memoir will cer- 

 tainly rank as the most important anthropological work which 

 has been published in Northern India for some years The 

 Society has also published a translation by the Rev. Gille, 

 S.J., of Fr. Krick's account of his work among the Abors in 

 1853,— a few months before the murder of the intrepid traveller 

 by Mishmis. Rev. H. Hosten, S.J., has given an account of 

 the visit made by another Jesuit missionary to the outlying 

 Abor clans, and has discussed Krick's contention that their 

 tatoo marks, in the form of crosses, are relics of ancient Chris- 

 tian influence. Before the April meeting of the Society Messrs. 

 S. W. Kemp and J. Coggin Brown exhibited a large collection 

 of objects illustrating the ethnology of the Abors and their 

 neighbours. 



A paper communicated by Dr. Annandale, J. Coggin 



