xi Annual Report. [ February, 1918. 
1730 a.D. by order of Nawab Shuja‘-ud-Daula, the Na’ib-i- 
Diwan in Orissa, The paper is illustrated with copies of 
inscriptions found on the tomb and the gateways. 
Maulavi Hafiz Nazir Ahmad, the First Travelling Maulavi, 
contributed the first instalment of notes on important Arabic 
and Persian MSS. with an introduction by the Hon. Dr. A. Al- 
Ma’miin Suhrawardy. Barrister-at-Law, Officer-in-charge of the 
Search for Arabic and Persian MSS. There are notes on 152 
Arabic MSS. found by him in various libraries, book-stores, ete., 
scattered throughout India, and descriptive notes on 25 
libraries visited by him. 
Dr. L. P. Tessitori’s ‘ Progress-report on the work done 
during the year 1916 in connection with the Bardic and His- 
torical Survey of Rajputana”’ will be read with great interest 
and profit. 
Anthropology. 
The followin ers dealing with anthropology, usiNg 
the term in a wide mee, have sew published in the Journal 
during the year :— 
“On some Indian Ceremonies for Disease-Transference- 
By Sarat Chandra Mitra, M.A., B.L. (Vol. XIL 
No. 1, 1917.) 
“ Folklore in Caste Proverbs (Bombay Presidency).” BY 
A. Gupta. (Vol. XIII, No. 1, 1917.) 
B. 
“On Secrecy and Silence in North. Indian Agricultural 
monies.” By Sarat Chandra Mitra, M.A 
(Vol. XIIT, 1917, No. 1.) 
“Riddles Current in the District of Sylhet, in faster 
Bengal.” By Sarat Chandra Mitra, M.A., B.L. (Vol 
XII, 1917, No. 3.) 
_ Dr..N. Annandale has revi i . Memoirs the series 
entitled “ Miscellanea itboaraphica” inaagatel by him™ 
1907, and has contributed to this series an accoun 
weighing apparatus used in the bazaars of the Southern Sham 
States, with notes be Dre QO) FE Mecrwarth and Me 1& 
Graves. Several exhibits of an anthropological nature have 
also been made at the meetings of the Society. 
