x Proceedings of the 
of his civil and military commissions with some conflict- 
ing traditions as to his transmission of the Prophet’s letter 
calling upon the Emperor Heraclius to accept Islam. In it is 
also shown his domestic relation with the Prophet. Four tradi- 
tions have been cited in it about the place of his tomb. Itends 
with two Hadith which were ascribed to him. 
Another paper by Mr. Harley entitled “ Umar bin Abdi ]- 
aziz and his Musnad collected by Al-Baghandi”’ deals with the 
the life-history of ‘Umar II and his Musnad as collected by 
Al-Baghandi. It is based on a rare MS. belonging to the 
Government Collection. 
n a paper entitled ‘‘ The Sources of Jami’s Nafahat,”’ 
Mr. W. Ivanow traces the sources of ‘‘ Jami’s Nafahat,” which 
is one of the most important historical works in Persian, and 
has exercised a great influence on Persian Sufic Literature. The 
work is based on some rare MSS. in the Society’s possession. 
‘ An Old Gypsy Jargon’ by the same author contains a note 
on a fragmentary MS., dealing with an artificial and conven- 
tional secret code of a ‘darwich community. 
A number of papers dealing with varia aspects of philo- 
logy were read by the members of the Society. Most of these 
have been or will be published in the Journal. So far as 
archaeology is concerned papers relating to Bharhut Sculptures 
contributed by Mr. Ramaprasad Chanda and Dr. M. M. Rarua 
are important. There can be no doubt that most of the iden- 
tifications of these sculptures with the Buddhist Jatakas will 
be accepted by scholars. Very little attention has been de- 
voted to the study of Kharosthi Inscriptions and the publica- 
tion of a paper on two epigraphs by Mr. N. G. Mazumdar is 
therefore weleome. Dr. Roycho wdhury’ s article on “‘ the Maha- 
bharata and the Besnagar Inscription of Heliodoros”’ will be 
found instructive. 
e linguistic side of Philology was not neglected this year, 
and in “ Cakhimpuri: A Dialect’? Baburam Saksena has made 
a valuable contribution to our knowledge. Father H. Hosten’s 
article on St. Thomas also deserves notice as it throws interest- 
ing light on Pre-Portuguese Christianity of India. Tibetan 
studies were not forgotten and Mr. Johan van Manen’s article 
entitled ‘A contribution to the Bibliography ot Tibet ’’ cannot 
fail to be of great use to Tibetan scholars. 
Anthropology. 
ur papers of Anthropological interest have appeared in 
the J meee and Proceedings of 1922 In a paper entitled 
“The Origin of the Catholic Christians of Eastern Bengal”’ 
(Contributions to the History and Ethnology of North Eastern 
India—IIJ) Mr. E A. Stapleton discusses the names of 60 Chris- 
tian children in the school attached to the Portuguese Church 
