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offered to employ Dr. Tessitori for at least four months, i.e. from 

 the beginning of December to the end of March, to examine the 

 bardic and historical materials of Bikaner, and suggest a plan 

 for future work. Accordingly, Dr. Tessitori moved to Bikaner 

 at the beginning of December, and will submit his plan in 

 March, when the question of the continuation of his work in 

 Bikaner will be decided. 



In spite of the difficulties , some noteworthy results have 

 been achieved. The edition of a bardic poem — the Vacanika 

 Ra thora Ratana Singhaji ri Mahesaddsota n — has been prepared , 

 and also that of a minor work— the U ktiratndkara ; and both 

 are ready to go to press as soon as the necessary funds are 

 available. A Descriptive Catalogue has been started, and the 

 first fasciculus is ready for the press. A Progress Report on the 

 Work done during the year 1915 has been submitted, and in 

 an appendix to it articles have been given, which had been 

 prepared for the proposed "Bulletin," a publication which is 

 unlikely to come into existence under present circumstances. 

 A collection has been made of 100 bardic and historical 

 manuscripts, out of which 16 were received, 16 purchased, 

 and 68 copied under Dr. Tessitori's supervision. Lastly a 

 collection has been made of impressions of about 130 inscrip- 

 tions, all from places visited in the Jodhpur State. 



Coins. 



Five gold, nine silver, and thirteen copper coins were pre- 

 sented to the Society's Cabinet during the year. Among them 

 were two silver coins of the Chandela King Madanavarman and 

 ten copper coins of the Audambara series described in Numis- 

 matic Supplement XXII and XXIII respectively. The coins 

 were received from the Madras (5 A?), Central Provinces (2 M 

 3 M), Panjab (10 M) and Assam (3 JR) Governments and from 

 Bombay R.A. Society (3 JR.) and Rewah State (2JR). 



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Lieut.-Col. Sir Leonard Rogers, Kt„ President, delivered 

 an Address to the Society. 



Annual Address, 1916. 



The work of our Society has gone on steadily during the 

 past year in spite of the war which is convulsing the world, 

 and which has led to a further slight reduction in the number 

 of our members, chiefly due to the loss of Indian Medical 



Drury 



has 



