xii Annual Report. { February, 1908. 
left India, and Lieut.-Colonel D, C. Phillott took charge of the 
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Philology, &c 
uring the year under review the contributions have been 
varied and fairly numerous. To History, Babu Jadu Nath Sarkar 
has contributed two papers, one on the “ Conquest of Chatgaon, 
1666 A.D.,” by Shaista Khan, and the other “the Feringi. 
Pirates of Chatgaon, 1665 A.D.” ; both are translations from the 
‘Alamgir-Nama and are a slain ent to his article on the same 
subject, published in the Journal for June, 1906. Under Antiquities, 
mention may be e . Yazdani’s two papers on the 
ancient history of the town and “pnildings of Narnaul, south of 
Delhi. Mr. Hari Nath De’s “ Tarikh-i-Nusrutjungi,” an important 
memoir, is still in the press. Maulavi Muhammad Kazim Shirazi, 
Persian Instructor to the Board of Examiners, has published a 
collection of 138 European words, culled from modern Persian 
newspapers. This list is of philological interest inasmuch as it 
indicates, in some measure, the Sage is Sieh sta influence on 
the current literature of Persia. The . J. Hoffman's paper 
on * Mundari Poetry, Music and Pesca” is a valuable contribution 
both to Philology and Hthnoloyy. Major T. W Haig has given 
the Armenian inscriptions with English translations of some 
epitaphs, ranging in date from A.D, 1645 to 1807, discovered by him 
in a Christian cemetery in Hnidarabad, Deccan. Mr. D. Donald has 
contributed ‘‘ Some Pushto Folk- tales,” with their Persian trans- 
lations: they are of interest to the students of folklore. Lieut.- 
Colone! D. C. Phillott, the Secretary, and Mr. R. F. Azoo, the 
Arabic Instructor of the Board of Examiners, have contributed 
“Seven Stories from the Nufhat™ l-Yaman,” ‘The Birds’ Com- 
plaint before Solomon” from the ‘‘ Kitab *l-Jamharah fi ‘Tlm*’1- 
Bazyarah ” and “ Some Folk-tales from Hazramaut”’: Arabic texts 
and English translations, Portions of these peers are of anthro- 
pological and historical interest. In papers of minor interest are 
“ Description of a Jam-i- chihil kalid, such as that referred to in 
Lane’s Modern Egyptians,” and a “ Note on Sign-,Gesture-,Code-, 
and Secret-l.anguage , etc., amongst the Persians” by Lieutenant- 
Colonel fess 
The impetus given to Tibetan studies by the Tibet Mission of 
1903-04. still continues, as is evident from several of the pepe 
published this year. The Memoir on “The Coinage of Tibet” is 
interesting, as it aes facsimiles of silver coins minted in Nepal 
aud Tibet. Mr. . C. Walsh, I.C.8., the author, observes 
that the oldest coin a pat available in Tibet is dated 1696 A. Ds 
though coins are reported to have been used thereas early as the 
12th century A.D. The characters on the official seal of the Dalai 
