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Gupta, and ' Notes on the Arthuna (Sanskrit) Inscription," by Kaviraja 

 Syamal Das, have been read at our meetings and will be published 

 in the Journal, Part I. 



The Madras Journal of Literature and Science contains a ' Revised 

 List of Antiquities in the Ohicacole Taluq,' by the Rev. J. K. Hutchin- 

 son. 



I must not omit to mention the very valuable "general Index to the 

 Reports of the Archaeological Survey of India, Vol. I to XXIII " pre- 

 pared by Mr. V. A. Smith, which will be found most useful for reference. 



Geography and Surveys. 



Although the records of geographical work in India and the sur- 

 rounding countries during the past year appear to present no specially 

 brilliant achievements, much good steady work has been done by the 

 Survey of India in pushing on Surveys within our own territories and 

 the countries immediately bordering them, as well as by foreign explorers 

 in increasing our knowledge of the yet unexplored regions lying quite 

 beyond our boundaries, and several interesting publications of travels 

 and explorations carried out in former years have been issued. 



To commence with the operations of the Survey of India : — 



Geographical Surveys and Exploration, Survey of India. — The only 

 purely exploratory work done, during the year has been the extension 

 of the reconnaissance and approximate triangulation of Western Nepal, 

 eastwards from the Kumaon boundary to the Gandak river, in Central 

 Nepal, which completes the data for sketch maps along the whole 

 Southern frontier of Nepal from Kumaon to Sikkim. No attempt 

 was made to penetrate the Nepal country, and the greater part of the 

 work had to be done by fixing some of the more prominent peaks and 

 ridges from the tower Stations of the N. E. Longitudinal Series. 

 The sketch maps thus obtained are necessarily imperfect, but are valu- 

 able as a basis for maps of this hitherto unknown region. 



A complete report embodying a large amount of information regard- 

 ing Bhutan and Tibet, collected by various explorers, is now in the 

 press and will shortly be ready. 



Hukong Valley. — Mr. Ogle accompanied the expedition under Mr. 

 J. P. Needham, Political Officer at Sadiya, in his attempt to penetrate 

 the Hukong Valley from Assam. The exploring party left Dibrugarh 

 early in January 1888, and from Makum crossed the Patkoi range by the 

 route traversed by Colonel Woodthorpe in 1884-85. Thence they pro- 

 ceeded by a route usually followed by people going to Assam from 

 Namphai and places thereabouts, and after five days' marching arrived 

 at a small Singpho village on the Namyung river. Owing to diffi- 



