XXvi Annual Address, (February, 1908. 
research, in which some notable contributions have been made by 
our members in the course of last year. When | had the honour to 
address you from this chair two years ago, I dwelt upon the im- 
portance of the exploration of Tibet and of the results which were 
likely to follow from an examination of the large number of 
have been known to the Chinese many centuries before it was 
discovered in Europe, and was certainly familiar to the people of 
China towards the close of the 6th century. When, therefore, in- 
tercourse prevailed with Tibet between India on the one hand and 
China on the other, the monks of that secluded country got a 
splendid literature from the former which they were enabled 
to preserve by means of the agency of the art of printing 
which they borrowed from the latter. Under royal patronage, 
