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tsan-gam-po in the 7th century a.d., and is now chanted on all 

 solemn occasions, fast-days and other holidays. In an account 

 of Taxila as a seat of learning, Babu Bimala Charan Law brings 

 together passages from Pali Jatakas to show that Taxila was 

 an important educational centre, in which three Vedas and 

 eighteen Vijjas were taught. 



In his note on the Bengal School. of Artists. Babu Surendra 

 Xath Kumar, while describing a stone-image from the district 

 of Burdwan, maintains that there was but one School of Art in 

 the whole of Bengal and Bihar, and that no proofs were avail- 

 able for the existence of a separate Eastern School of Artists. 

 Rai Monmohan Chakravarti Bahadur has contributed to our 

 journal several interesting papers which throw a good deal of 

 light on the History of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa during the- 

 Mahomedan period. In his note on the geography of Orissa in 

 the sixteenth century the Rai Bahadur discusses all geographi- 

 cal information available about Orissa in such books as Madala 

 Panjl and Ain-i-Akbari, while in his History of Mithila during 

 the pre-Mughal period he gives a fairly full account of the 

 Karnata dynasty and the dynasty of Karnes vara that ruled in 

 Darbhanga in the fourteenth and succeeding centuries. His 

 History of Navya Nyava rontains a list of Brahmanic writers on 

 Modern Logic with their approximate dates; and his contribu- 

 tions to the history of Smriti, of which two parts have been 

 published, furnish us with some useful information about the 

 Brahmanic law-givers that flourished in Bengal and Mithila in 

 the eleventh and succeeding centuries. 



Anthropology. 



Four short papers on ethnographical subjects were pu 

 lished in the Journal of the Society in 1916. They were: 

 North Indian Folk-Medicine for Hydrophobia and Scorpion - 

 Sting, by Sarat Chandra Mitra, M.A., B.L. ; On North Indian 

 Charms for Securing Immunity from the Virus of Scorpion- 

 Stings, by Sarat Chandra Mitra ; The Invention of Fire, by 

 H. G. Graves; Denion-Cultus in Mundari Children's Games, by 

 Sarat Chandra Mitra. 



Sir George Duff -Sutherland-Dunbar has published in the 

 Memoirs, as an appendix to his report on the Abors and Ga- 

 longs, a personal narrative of a visit to Pemakoichen. 



Zoology. 



Zoology, Botany, and Geology. 



Mr. Baini Parshad published an interesting essay on the 

 Seasonal Conditions governing Pond Life in the Panjab. The 

 material was chiefly obtained from natural freshwater ponds 

 or from pools left on the banks of rivers receding in autumn. 

 Observations were made on Hydra oligactis, Spongilla carteri, 



