February, 1912.] Annual Report. xix 
Lectures. 
During the year, the following two lectures were delivered in 
the Society’s rooms :—1. On Japanese Painting and Sculpture, 
with lantern slides, by Mr. O. C. Ganguly, on the 5th April. 
2. On A Visit to the Mekran. The Mud-Volcanoes and the 
Pilgrimage to Hinglaj, by Mr. E. Vredenburg, B.L., B.Sc., 
A.R.S.M., A.B.C.S., F.G.S:,.on 18th May, 1911. 
Philology, etc. 
lars about the birth of his third son Hinda] Mirza.’’ The 
passage in question occurs on page 220a of the facsimile of the 
Haidarabad Code X and on page 250 of Leyden and Erskine’s 
translation. In his note Mr. Beveridge says: ‘‘ It is assumed 
that Jahangir wrote the paragraph, but one would expect 
him to have been better informed about the date of death 
of his great-grandfather’s mother.’ ’ 
The same writer, in a note on ‘‘ the Poet Maili of Herat ”’ 
(published in the Journal for December 1910), points out that 
the life of this poet is but little known, and that there are 
several mistakes and discrepancies in the accounts 0 im 
which occur in various Persian anthologies and in catalogues 
of Persian M&S. 
Maulavi ‘Abdu’| Wala published 228 Quatrains of Shaykh 
Abu Sa‘id ibn Abu’l Khayr in the Journal for 1909. He has 
contributed another monograph containing 173 Quatrains of the 
Shaykh copied from British Museum Codex, which have been 
examined, collated and alphabetically arranged by the Editor, 
excluding those tetrastiches that were common in both the 
texts. Ina brief but critical note prefixed to the Quatrains 
the Maulavi has discussed the variants, imitations and simili- 
tudes of a good number of stanzas written before and after Abu 
Sa‘id. ‘The edition of the Quatrains is in the course of publica- 
tion in the Journal for 1911. : 
Babu Rakhal Das Banerji, M.A., in his useful contribu- 
tion entitled ‘Inscribed Guns from Assam oe (published in 
the Journal for February 1911), deals at length with seven 
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Industrial Section of the Indian Museum. These are as 
follows : (1) Gun of Shir Shah, made of iron and bearing an 
