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Many biological specimens have been examined by Dr. Annan- 
dale and others from time to time at our meetings. 
Sastri, C.I.E., who toured in Rajputana during the months of 
September and October, 1911. In connection with this work 
mention might be made of the Bardic committee of Jodhpur, 
which is doing excellent work, especially the energetic Secre- 
tary of this committee, Pandit Ram Karan. It is expected 
that a Bardic committee will be formed shortly at Bikanir, as 
H.H. the Maharaja of Bikanir is much interested in the sub- 
ject. There are also hopes of good work at Jaipur. 
During the year under review [ am glad to report that a 
very large number of Sanscrit manuscripts, some of them of 
extreme rarity, have been acquired by purchase, and amongst 
these is a unique manuscript on palm-leaf copied in a.pD. 1175, 
The learned compiler of the report states that it is perhaps the 
first book written throughout in verse in that language which 
as yet has been discovered. It has hitherto only been known 
in a Chinese translation and is a most important find. During 
the year 1911, no fewer than forty fasciculi of important texts 
of different dimensions have been published in the Bibliotheca 
Indica, works in Sanscrit, Hindi, Arabic, and Persian on suc 
subjects as Astronomy, Logic and Philisophy, Grammar, and 
Biography, and a Sanscrit-Tibetan Dictionary. 
n the Medical Section some valuable papers have been 
read during the year on various professional subjects. am 
glad to report that this section continues to flourish. It has 
not yet been six years in existence, and it numbers 95 members. 
The meetings have been fairly well attended. Captain Sandes 
is now the Secretary of this section. I will now, with your per- 
Researches on the Metabolism of Food.—After the opening of 
the new physiological laboratories at the Medical College, it 
became the custom of the staff of the Medical College Hospital 
to send different pathological fluids for complete analysis. 
The results obtained differed so widely from the standards that 
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