xxii Annual Report. [February, 1912. 
Konow is a rejoinder to Rev. C. Mehl’s unfavourable review of 
the Mundari Section of the Linguistic Survey of India. 
. E. Stapleton has made a valuable contribution to 
the History of Assam, based on a large number of coins dis- 
covered from the Jorhat subdivision. 
Mr. Kasi P. Jayasval contributes some critical notes on 
Dr. Takakasu’s English translation of obscure passages in 
I-tsing’s Chinese Records. 
Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Sastri, C.I.E., in his 
Notes on Catuhéatika, gives an account of a newly-found 
Budhist Sanskrit work called Catuhsatika, by Aryadeva. 
Rai Bahadur B. A. Gupte, in his article on Mrga-Sirsa, 
relates the story of Shivaratra, and identifies Siva Pafica- 
yatana with certain signs of the Zodiac. 
Babu B. C. Mazumdar identifies the goddess Stambheésvari, 
eis to be found in the copper-plate inscription of 
Kulastambhadeva, with a goddess still worshipped by some 
aboriginal tribes. 
Natural History, etc. 
During the year, Dr. P. C. Ray has continued, himself and 
also through his students, the investigation of the Amine nitrites. 
Mr. D. Hooper also carried on his chemical investigation of 
Indian Foods, which includes an important paper on ‘‘ Phos- 
phorus in Indian Food stuffs’? undertaken in connection with 
the Beri-beri commission. In Botany, several systematic 
papers have been contributed by Messrs. Burkill, Smith, Bhide 
and Prof. West. In the press and shortly to be issued is 
another part of the ‘Materials for a Flora of the Malayan 
] by J. S. Gamble, a work of the very highest value. 
Several exhibitions were made during the year of zoological 
objects by officers of the Natural History Section of the Indian 
Museum. 
Twelve scientific papers were issued, all in the Journal, in 
the year under review—six Chemical, five Botanical and one 
Paleontological. 
CHEMISTRY. 
Reactions in presence of Nickel : (a) Inability of nitrogen 
and hydrogen to combine in presence of iron and nickel. 
(b) Reduction of the oxides of nitrogen, sulphur and 
phosphorus in presence of nickel.—By PaXcANAN 
rah M.A., and BirEeNpRs Butsan ADHICARI, 
Interaction of Hydrazine Sulphate with Nitrites, and a new 
method for the determination of the ‘* Nitritic’?’ N itrogen 
—By Biman Bryari Dr, M:Sc., and Hemenpra 
Kumar Sen, B.A. 
