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February, 1922.] Annual Report. 0; i 
The works of Jean du Bec. and Sieur de Saynleon on Timur, 
alleged to be based on an Arabic original, are spurious. The 
account of Timur by Abu Talib al-Husaini is fictitious, Shah 
Jahan caused it to be harmonised with the Zafarnamah of 
Sharafu-d-din. 
The premature death of Dr. L. P. Tessitori is a grievous 
loss to scholarship. Vol. XVI, No. 6, of our Journal contains 
the last Progress Report of this young Italian scholar on the 
work done in 1918, in connection with the Bardic and Histori- 
cal Survey of Rajputana. The report gives an account of the 
manuscripts he received or purchased in the territory of 
Bikaner, the works he edited and published for the State, and 
his antiquarian researches. 
Many other interesting papers have been contributed by 
Dr. R. C. Mujumdar, Mr. H. C. Ray Chaudhuri, Mr. 7, is 
Deb and Mr. N.G. Majumdar. Perhaps the most important of 
these is ‘The Gupta Empire in the Sixth and Seventh Cen- 
turies” by Mr, Ray Chaudhuri. In it an attempt has been 
made to give the general outlines of the history of the Gupta 
Empire from the death of Skandagupta to that of Jivita- 
gupta IT. 
Anthropology. 
Only one paper of Anthropological interest has appeared 
in the Journal and Proceedings during the year, viz. Mr. Hem 
Chandra Das-Gupta’s paper On the discovery of Neolothic Indian 
Script. In this paper Mr. Das-Gupta contends that as the 
neoliths that are alleged to bear writing have not been found 
in situ, embedded in natural deposits, the markings on these 
neoliths do not prove that writing was known in India in 
Neolithic times. 
Biology. 
Four biological papers were published in the Society's 
Journal, and two in the Memoirs :— : 
Yotes on Persistent Oviducts and Abnormal Testes in a 
Male Rana tigrina.—By D. R. Bhattacharya. Journal, Vol. 
XVI, No. 7. : 
Preliminary Observations on Cocoon-formation by the com- 
mon Lahore Leech, Limnatis (Poecilobdella) Granulosa (Sav).— 
By G. Matthai. Journal, Vol. XVI 
Records of Agaricaceae from 
Journal, Vol. XVI, No. 8. : 
; The Genus Cerebella in India.—By L. S. Subramaniam. 
ournal, Vol. XVII, No. 2. bg 
oological Results of a Tour in the Far East.—The ote 
parous Water-Snail of Lake Biwa, Japan. si fe a ts rst 
Mysidacea, Tanaidecea, and Isopoda.—By W. M. Tatter- 
, No. 8. 
Bengal.—By S. R. Bose. 
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