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by contributing a series of articles to the Journal on the 
‘** History of the later Moghuls,’’ but did not live to complete 
the series. He published also an edition of the Storia do 
Mogor by Nicolao Manucci in the Indian Text Series which 
will always form a lasting monument to his scholarly patience. 
(6) Ambica Caran Sen, born in Dacca and belonged to 
the Vaidya caste, studied at the Presidency College and took 
his M.A. in 1873 in Natural and Physical Science, and joined 
he was selected for an agricultural scholarship, and went to 
England and was trained at Cirencester College and distinguished 
himself there. On return to India, he was appointed to 
the Agricultural Department. and rose to be Assistant Director 
of Agriculture, but his talents must have been somewhat of a 
nity. He devoted much time to the critical study of the Vedas 
and read several papers on this subject at meetings of the 
Society, one of these papers being specially noticed by my 
learned predecessor (in the address for 1910), which dealt with 
Tuita, one of the Hero Gods of the Rig Veda, and which Sir 
Agutos Mookerjee considered of ‘‘ considerable interest from 
an anthropological point of view.”’ 
(7) The late Mr. J. A. Cunningham was a distinguished 
member of the Indian Educational Service. On his arrival in 
his advanced students, is reflected in the Proceedings of the 
Asiatic Society, of which he was a valued member. He also 
on several occasions acted as Meteorological Reporter to the 
Government of Bengal, and with characteristic energy threw 
himself into the work of original investigation in that branch 
of science. Later on he forsook his professorial chair to take 
up administrative work as Inspector of Schools in the Chota 
Nagpur Division, but although the duties of that post absorbed 
the greater part of his time, he always kept in close touch with 
the activities of the scientific world. 
: Time will only allow me to glance very briefly at the 
work done during the past year and the progress made in the 
various sections of the Society. 
Anthropology.—The Secretary of this section, you will see, 
reports that very few papers were published during 1911 on 
anthropological subjects, and that ‘‘ comparatively little inter- 
est is taken by members in such subjects.’’ This dearth of 
papers and lack of interest is also reported to be “ inevitable so 
long as there is no recognized authority in India to whom persons 
interested in the study of man can turn for advice, confident 
