xx Annual Report. [February, 1911. 
tioned, showing that the word scarlet at this time still represented 
a material and not a colour. 
t.-Col. D. C. Phillott in his ‘‘ Vocabulary of technical 
Falconry terms ’’ has given a very valuable collection of tech- 
nical words used by the oriental sportsmen and thereby makes 
a very useful contribution to the literature on the subject. 
The notes on ‘‘The Marsden Collection of MSS. in the 
British Museum’’ taken by Messrs. Philipps and Beveridge 
and edited by the Rev. H. Hosten is of great value as a contribu- i 
tion to the history of Catholic Mission in India. The editor : 
has spared no pains in elucidating and elaborating them where 
necessary, which adds greatly to the usefulness of the paper. 
n a short note on ‘‘ Old guns in Bengal,’’ Rev. H. Hosten 
proves by a letter of Father Nicolas Trigault, dated Goa, the 
eve of Christmas, 1607, that a large number of guns were in 
possession of the native Chiefs of Bengal. 
madan archaeology the paper is highly interesting and the sub- 
ject has been dealt with in a masterly wa - 
Rev. H. Hosten in his ‘‘ List of Jesuit Missionaries im 
‘Mogor’ ’’ takes for his guidance the catalogues of the Pro- 
vince of Goa, preserved among the Archives in Europe, and 
supplies us with a complete list of the Missionaries who were 
in North India during 1580—1803. ; 
_ In the Journal for December 1909, Maulavi ‘Abdul Wali 
edited the ‘* Ruba‘iyat of Abu Sa‘id ibn Abul Khayr’’ from the 
MS. belonging to the Society, with a short note on the work and 
the author. Professor Hermann Ethé published in 1875 and 
again 1878 a few quatrains, with metrical German translations 
in the Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-philologischen und 
historischen Classe der K. Akademie der Wissenschaften 2U 
Miinchen. The quatrains have also been referred by scholars 
title “‘ The Bahmani Dynasty ’’ he suggests that the word 
Gangu after the name of ‘Aliuddin Hasan, the 
Mm, BH. 8. Stapleton in his ‘‘ Note on seven sixteenth 
century cannon recently discovered in the Dacca district 
describes the seven brass cannon which were discovered 10 
