February, 1912.} Annual Address. XXxili 
Bureau of Information. 
Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Sastri, C.1.E., Officer-in- 
Charge of the Bureau of Information in History, Religion, Folk- 
lore and Usages for the benefit of Civil Officers of Bengal, was 
employed in examining a large number of manuscripts found in 
the Bishop’s College, Calcutta. The collection was made be- 
tween the years 1820 to 1840. It contains many interesting 
works, about 200 in number, in Sanskrit, Tibetan and Burmese, 
especially the original of the Tibeto-Ttallan and Italio-Tibetan 
dictionaries prepared by the Capuchin missionaries at Lhassa 
about the middle of the 18th century. It also contains a com- 
plete copy - the Grantha Sahib of the Sikhs, a golden book of 
the Burmese and a complete copy of the Reg Veda with its 
subsidiary iestetaee, He has submitted two reports on the 
collection to Government. And he has written the following 
notes at ae request of Civil Officers in Bengal :— 
A note on PB vem Sasthipaijaé, Garbhadhan and 
Jatakar 
II. A note on che test of Hinduism. 
III. A note on the Pandits of Nadia 
IV. A note on the influence of later Buddhism on modern 
Hindu Society. 
V. A note on the external soul and the puberty customs 
among some of the castes. 
VI. A note on the castes and tribes other than the Khonds, 
having an idea that the departed souls return to 
animate human soul in the same fami 
VII. A note on the authority exercised on caste system by 
Kings and ana under the ancient Hindu Régime. 
VIiT. A noteon Tilaka marks. 
IX. Beliefs connected with Infanticide. 
The term ‘‘ Mleccha. 
XI. A note on the anacaraniya caste in 24-Pargan 
XII. A note on the question whether all Hindus can oe called 
Vaisnavas as at the last moment of life they take 
the name of Hari. 
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The President then delivered an Address to the Society. 
Annual Address, 1912. 
GENTLEMEN 
I understand that it is the duty (as it has been the prac- 
tice heretofore) for the President of this Society to deliver an 
address at the annual meeting at least once during his term of 
office of two years, though not negessarily at the end of the 
