
1908. ] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. exvil 
Aryan verb constructed, according to the rules of Tibeto-Burman 
grammar, 
_2. A letter from Dr, G. A, Grierson and Mr. M. L. Dames 
ing an account of the Congress which they attended as delegates 
fie the Society. 
In accordance with your request we attended the Fifteenth 
Cerigeraans of Orientalists which assembled at Copenhagen on the 
13th August, and brought its sessions toa close on the 20th of the 
same month. 
. 4. 
of sasdact on August the 14th, and H. M. the King of Denmark 
was ey od pleased to attend one of the meetings, that at which 
Herr von L ve an account of the explorations and excavations 
carsied out by the German expedition to Central Asia under 
Prof. Griinwedel and himself at Turfan “— other sites on the 
southern slopes of the Thian Shan mountain 
ing to the printers’ strike which esradal at Copenhagen 
up to the end of the Congress it was found impracticable to issue 
frequent bulletins, as had been intended, in which accounts of 
diffioultics were too considerable to be surmou 
section however passed a resolution in favour of log a meet- 
ing of Indianists in India apart from the 
the invitation of the Greek Govern 5 Rihet was aged 
selected as the place of meeting of the Sixtosnth Congress 
A circular on ringed birds prema by the Director of the 
Hungarian Central Bureau for Ornithology. 
The winter-quarters and routes - our migrant birds are until! 
now yet unknown, and there is only one method which leads to 
positive rrchigegeh on this account: the marking of birds by alu- 
minium rings, a method which has been tried with success in 
Germany —" in Der enmark, as a house-stork, seater in Pomerania, 
was caught in Africa 15° S. of the Equator. The Hungarian 
tral Bureau for Ornithology has now also begun the marking of 
young storks, herons, gulls and swallows. The aluminium ring is 
