xii Annual Report. [February, 1917. 



for their Journal; (3) from the Mythic Society, Bangalore; 

 the Society's Journal and Proceedings and t he Memoirs in ex- 

 change for their Quarterly Journal. 



On an application from the Ohio State University, Colum- 

 bus, offering vols. 1-15 of the Ohio Naturalist, 1900*1915, the 

 series issued previous to the Ohio Journal of Science, the Coun- 

 cil agreed to send them the back vols, of the Societv's Journal 

 from 1875. 



Philology, etc. 



Rev. H. Hosten has edited a paper on Portuguese Losses in 

 Indian Seas between a.u. 1627-1636. The losses were inflicted 

 by the Dutch, and are estimated at 30 millions, apart from 

 those incurred in the Southern Seas. He has also edited some 

 old records of the Madras Army which contain seven unpublished 

 papers. Among them are copies of two letters between Clive 

 and Watson, a list of French ships, and four lists of English and 

 French prisoners. 



v-^ In h ™ N ° te °" the T a'ikh-i-Salatin-i-Afaidiana by Ahmad 

 ladgar, Mr H. Beveridge discus.,-, the historical value of the 

 work, and the date of its composition. 



Mr. H. Beveridge also contributes some notes on Father 

 Monserrate s Mongolicae Legations Commentarius in two instal- 

 ments, these notes illustrate manv incidents in Akbar's reign. 

 au i o • Rushb rook Williams describes a work entitled 



Ahsan al-Siyar the 4th volume of which he found at the Nawab 

 of Kampurs library. He says that it contains much informa- 

 tion about Babur, and will clear up some disputed points. 



In his note on a Buddhist Sculpture from Kandv, Ceylon 

 ur. vogel gives an account of a sculpture which came into the 

 possession of a British officer at the capture of Kandv in 

 1815 a.d. and now belongs to His Excellencv Lord Carmichael. 

 the sculpture, which represents the eight principal events in the 

 fliiift 1S su PP° 8ed to hil ve been brought into Ceylon 



from Buddha Gaya about 1000-1200 a d 



*h* Bab " Rakhal Das Banerji contributed a paper containing 

 £™?T *?*' With translation, of the Talchcr Plate of 

 Oayacia-tungadeva, a plate which records the gift of a village 



hal 1 ? V1?a ,r t0 three Bf ^mans, one of whom is said to 

 fa ZhZ X «~m Varendra mandala, and another from Sravastr 

 m about the 11th century a.d. 



dm vm™k?' RoSS ' ? IJL ' an( * Mahamahopadhvava Satis Cbaa- 

 tLl^t™™' haVe edited * the Memoirs the well-knoun 



ahnnton.^ 7 -*-««g>ur ana translated into vju&"^ 



C^omlS I'' a ? b ^ the Sioulo-Hungarian Scholar Alexander 



funeral nSr S ' &? Dawa -S^-D«P in his paper on a Tibetan 



hvmn Ihilf PUbllSh ? the text and translation of a Tibetan 

 hymn winch is supposed tn h»™ k™ 1 t... t^~ Smn2 



