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Febru at,, 1914.) A mml A ^.^ 



« f ft J he " R , 6 T; L - BerDard among the Abors and the cross as 

 a attoo-mark is the title of a paper in which Father Horten 

 discusses the origin of the Abor Tattoo-marks wh ch were 



tiaTln? ^ ? \ ther 5** aS P° SSibIe re,ics ^ ancien Chrl! 

 t an Missions but in which Father Bernard refuses to see anv 



Christian origin or signification. ny 



wtt V L H ^.^ SH^/Cf US S . 0me ***>*** of the life 



a sVbut Th Allah of Bihar, the author of Musallam- 



ai bubut. The same Maulvi lias also edited and translated the 

 unique manuscript » the Mirza Namah "(the book o the pe " 

 ect gentleman) the supposed work of Mirza Kamran toe 

 learned son of Babar Shah. The writer of the paper discusses 



the mJ%? Vm d ° Ubtful qU68tion ° f its auth ™ hi P and to. 

 hi,tn J *S™ U i h CentUFy aS ifcsdafce - Tlle etymology and 



U ° m e W ° rk " Mirza ' ' i8 a]so de alt with. gy 



a tf„ ; * Kirk Patrick contributed a paper in which he 

 attempts to prove that the European Gypsies originally mi- 

 grated from India by showing the similarity of RamnicLZ 

 (tie language of European Gypsies) and colloquial Hindustani 

 Ihe writer points out that the fact of the migration of Gypsy- 

 like people from India into Persia (where they are called 



rian ^amr a 60 C ° nfirmed bj Fardausi and the Arabian Histo- 



of thp Ir \r Pv i ^' Whitehead - »» nis paper on the Mint Towns 

 ot the Mughal Emperors of India, has followed the same lines 



kL \.u rnS m the P re Paration of a new edition of his tables 

 but with certain differences which he enumerates in detail 



. 1 now turn to the Natural and Physical Sciences. Twentv- 

 mne scientific papers were issued in the Journal and two in 

 tne .Proceedings in the year under review— 16 Zoological 10 

 uiemical, 2 Botanical, 2 Geological and 1 Geographical. Mr 

 ivemp exhibited a most interesting collection of birds made in 

 tne Mishmi Hills by Captain Kennedy, but the most impor- 

 tant work of the year has been the issue of two special series 

 ot papers dealing with the zoological collections made by 

 JJr. Annandale in the Lake of Tiberias and its neighbour- 



There was a slight increase in the number of papers dealing 

 ki° u With anthropological subjects, communicated to and 

 published by the Society during the year, and it is hoped that 

 this is the beginning of a revival in attention paid to such 

 studies. The neglect from which anthropolosical investigations 

 have suffered in India for some time is coinmented on in the 

 preceding Annual Reports. 



1 have been making enquiries particularly witli regard to 

 tne grant for Ethnographic research which is made by Govern- 

 ment to the Society. The grant of Els. 3,600 a year was 



