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cated doing away with the penal laws against the practice as 
they were so seldom effectual. Dr. K. K. Chatterji also showed 
a number of cases of syphilis treated with injections of a soluble 
preparation made from neem oil with great benefit in many of 
them. . 
International Catalogue of Scientific Literature. 
ing the year no volumes of the Catalogue of Scientific 
Literature were received, although invoices were sent by the 
Central Bureau for several parts of the Catalogue. The work 
of the Regional Bureau has been chiefly confined to the prepara- 
tion of a great number of Index slips; but with the exception 
appears in the Zoological Record for 1915 published in 1917. 
The receipts and expenditure of the Regional Bureau for 
the year 1917 were Rs. 270 and Rs. 402-11-3 respectively. 
Bureau of Information. 
Several communications were bean and have been replied 
to. e .most important of these was the decipherment a 
Hemera copy of the Tezpur Biak Inscription received from 
he Commissioner of the Assam Valley Districts. 
Sanskrit Manuscript Search and Catalogue. 
The number of manuscripts catalogued up to date is 9,600. 
and it is tage that by the end of March 1918 it will reach 
the round number 10,000. The Catalogue of 120 Buddhist 
MSS. prepared last year has now been published. 
Owing to want of funds it has not yet been found possible 
to renew the search for manuscripts, or in any way to increase 
the size of the collection. 
Arabic and Persian fay SoMa ae Search and Copnionn? 
5 Arabic MSS. has been sent to the press, and will be pub- 
lished with this report. .This year the Maulavi visited three 
libraries in Murshidabad, but was unable to visit the Nawab’s 
