February, 1911.] Annual Report. Xix 
Middle Ages, and rendered into English more than eighty years 
ago by the celebrated Siculo-Hungarian Scholar Alexander 
Csoma de Korés, of whom an interesting account is to be found 
in the introduction by Dr. Ross. 
Babu Monmohan Chakravarti in his paper on the ‘‘ Pre- 
Mughal Mosques of Bengal’’ shows that in the earliest 
In the 
traced, the date of its creation and development being syn- 
The ‘‘Murgh Nama ’’ is a translation by Lieut -Col. D. C. 
Phillott from the Urdu work ‘‘ Sayd gah-i-Shaukat’’ of Nawab 
Yar Muhammad Khan of the Rampir State, A.D. 1883. It 
deals chiefly with the habits and ways of the Indian game cock, 
different modes of cock-fighting, their distempers and remedies 
thereof. What adds to the interest of the paper is that the 
author explains all the technicalities which the lay reader would 
likely find as stumbling-blocks in the course of -his perusal. 
Mr. H. E. Stapleton in his article entitled ‘‘ Contributions 
to the History and Ethnology of North-Eastern India ’’ corro- 
borates his former statement concerning the antiquity of Dacca 
by means of a find of Gupta coins. 
In the article entitled ‘‘ A passage in the Turki text of the 
Babarnamah’’ Mr. H. Beveridge points out a passage occur- 
ring in Ilminisky’s edition of the Babarnamah in connection 
with Hindal’s birth, and is of opinion that it is an interpolation 
by a later writer, probably Jahangir, who was not very we 
informed of his family history or of the history of the period 
to which the paragraph in question refers. 
The Rev. C. Mehl in his article entitled ‘‘ Some Remarks on 
Mundari Phonology and on its treatment in the Linguistic Sur- 
vey of India ” points out the mistake occurring in the section 
on Mundari Phonetics of India and holds that the Mundari 
equivalents of the Santali semi-consonants are neither uniform 
nor stable in their character and that they in this respect as 
well as in their pronunciation differ widely from their sup- 
posed Santali equivalents. 
The Rev. H. Hosten in his article ‘‘ Who planned the 
Taj ?”’ holds that the Taj was designed by foreign Architects, 
chiefly European, and refutes the popular opinion of its being 
_constructed by native artists. ; 
General A. Houtum-Schindler of Teheran in a short paper 
entitled ‘‘'The word Scarlet ’’ supports the view held by Dr. 
Ross in his paper on the same published in the Journal for 
1908 and says that the word scarlet originally stood for a fine 
quality of silk. To this Dr. Ross adds a note referring to a 
Portuguese letter written to Lord Clive by the King of Siam in 
which among other presents the ‘escarlata vermelho’ is men- 
