xlii Vice-President’s Address. [February, 1911. 
Csoma de Koros. The work is under the competent editorship 
of Dr. Denison Ross and Dr. Satis Chandra Vidyabhusana, and 
will have the advantage of a masterly introduction by the first- 
named scholar. In this connection, it is interesting to note 
that arrangements have been made by the Society to place 
two new marble tablets, one in English, the other in Hung- 
arian, upon the tomb of Csoma de Koros at Darjeeling. It is 
but meet that the Society should do honour to the memory of 
one of our most distinguished members whose works have added 
to our renown ; and we can easily imagine how enraptured his 
soul would have been, if he could re-visit the scene of his 
Gentlem 
of this wonderfu collection, will be able to realize, to some eXx- 
tent, its variety and magnitude when I tell them that one of the 
four sections into which the entire work is divided, embodies 
more than one thousand separate treatises on theology, philoso- 
phy, logic, ethics, grammar, rhetoric, poesy, prosody, lexicon, 
astronomy, astrology, medicine, alchemy and the mechanical 
arts. It is an interesting fact that as the art of printing had been 
introduced into Tibet from China in very early times, this vast 
work was stereotyped in wooden blocks, and the edition just 
