xx Annual Address. [February. 1917. 



Two gold and nine silver coins were presented to the So- 

 ciety's cabinet during the year. The coins were received from 

 the Government of Assam; from the Archaeological Survey 



Circle : and from the Bombav Branch of the Royal 



Western 

 Asiatic Societv. 



♦ 



Lieut.-Col. Sir Leonard Rogers, Kt., President, delivered 

 an Address to the Society. 



Annual Address, 1917. 



As the report of the Council for 1916 is already in the 

 hands of the members I propose to follow the precedent I set 

 last year of only mentioning the salient features of our work, 

 and then to speaking on a subject which I hope may prove of 

 some interest. 



The work of our Society has made satisfactory progress 

 during the past year, our publications having been exception- 

 ally extensive and important, with the result that our expendi- 

 ture has exceeded our income by almost five thousand rupees, 

 the deficit having been met from our reserve fund. The philo- 

 logical and natural history sections have been particularly active. 

 Among the former the publication of Part I of Sir George 



Grierson's 



theca Indica, and in the latter the first of a series of memoirs 

 recording the results of Dr. Annandale's recent tour in the Far 

 East are especially worthy of mention. Good progress has 

 been made with the catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, a volume 

 of which is ready for publication. The work of Dr. Tessiton 

 on the Bardic and Historical Survey of Raj pu tana has been put 

 on a satisfactory footing by his salary for five years having been 

 sanctioned by the Government of India, and important support 

 having been secured from several of the Rajput States, while two 

 works on the subject will be published very shortly. Our rela- 

 tions with the Numismatic Society have been placed on a good 

 working basis, and three numismatic supplements have been 

 published during the last year, while further important papers 

 are in hand. We have "also published extracts of a larg e 

 number of papers read before the Indian Science Congress. 

 Three lantern lectures were delivered last year, two by f )l - 

 Annandale and one by Babu J. C. Chatterji. 



The number of new members just equalled the losses by 

 deaths and resignations, but in addition the Council have had to 

 remove the names of 34 members, who were greatly in area* 

 with their subscriptions, which accounts for the reduction in our 

 number during the year ; the loss being more apparent than real 

 The annual meeting of Fellows have recommended for e Iec r*J! 

 to the fellowship to-night Dr. Simpson. K.R.S.. Lt. -Colonel W ■ 

 Sutherland, I .M.S., and Dr. Gravel v. who have all done vai» 



