February, 1916.] Annual Report. x ffi 



1834, 26 copies which lacked the last five pages have been 

 completed, and copies are now available for sale. 



A revised edition of the Society's Rules and Regulations 

 is in course of publication. 



Exchange of Publications. 



During the year no applications were accepted by the 

 Society for exchange of publications. 



On an application from the Librarian of the Johns Hop- 

 kins University, Baltimore, certain back numbers of the 

 Journal and Proceedings of the Society were supplied to them. 



Philology, etc. 



VV 



a wandering tribe of mixed Aryan origin, who dress like Persian 

 rustics, and are Muslims of the Shiah sect. They speak the 

 Persian dialect of Qainat, but still use some genuine Gypsy 

 words to conceal their secrets. The paper specially deals with 

 the structure of the Gypsy language. 



Maulavi Ghulam Yazdani attempts to prove that the tomb 

 of Zeb-un-ni-sa, Aurangzeb's daughter, who died in 1709 a.d., 

 is near the Kabul Gate at Delhi, and not at Lahore, as consi- 

 dered by some. He cites eye-witnesses, and further says that 

 the tomb does not exist now, but was demolished when the 

 Rajputana Railway was constructed. 



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Court contains five chapters. The first chapter deals with the 

 Peacock Throne of Shah Jahan described by Tavernier, and 

 incidentally mentions several other thrones with peacocks. The 

 writer says that the throne in question was not taken to Persia 

 by Nadir Shah. The second chapter deals with forgotten Euro- 

 peans of Shah Jahan's time, who were mostly artists. A list 

 of their names is given. The last three chapters are on Indian 

 architecture, as manifested in the structure of the Taj. 



Rev. H. Hosten contributes another paper on the elephant 

 statues which existed at Agra and Delhi in the reign of Akbar 

 some of which were destroyed by Aurangzeb. 



Mr. H. D. Graves Law contributes 98 quatrains of Abu Sa'id 

 bin Abul Khair obtained by him from two sources, viz. a MS. 

 copy containing 161 quatrains, and a small volume of a litho- 

 graphed edition containing 24 quatrains. From the former he 

 has selected 84 quatrains, and from the latter 12 with 2 more 

 found in both. 



Khan Sahib Maulavi Abdul Muqtadir describes a history of 

 Herat by Sayfi. He shows that the well-known history of 

 Herat, viz. Rauzat-ul-Jannat by Mu'in, is mainly based on this 

 work. 



