Annual Report. - (February, 1905 
of 1903 and Nos. 1—5 of 1904) containing 358 pages and 9 plates. 
The Index for 1903 was also published. 
Of the Journal Part III four numbers were published (Nos. 
1—4 of 1904) containing 77 pages and 4 plates. The Index for 
1905 was also published. 
The other publications issued during the year were the 4th 
fasciculus of the Catalogue of the Society’s Sanskrit Books and 
Manuscripts, and the 2nd fasciculus of the Catalogue of the 
Society's Arabic Books and Manuscripts. 
Proceedings. 
All important papers noticed in the Proceedings have appeared. 
in full in the various parts of the Journal, only small papers and 
abstracts of the important papers being published i in the Proceed- 
ings. The Rey. P.O. Bodding contributed a paper on Shoulder- 
headed and other forms of stone implements in the Santal Parganas. 
Of the implements those with square edges are supposed to be very 
rare in India. Mr. H. H. Walsh described certain stone implements 
found in the Darjeeling District, which are locally believed to be 
the weapons of gods and to possess various protective and 
medicinal powers. Mr. C. Little contributed two papers, 
one on the Himalayan Summer Storm of September 24th 
1903, and the other on the Cyclone of 13th November 1903 in 
the Bay of Bengal; both have been published in the Journal with 
maps. Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Sastri exhibited two 
Bengali documents obtained from Rai Jadunath Mozumdar Baha- 
dur of Jessore, in which the executant purported to sell himself 
and his family into slavery. One was executed during the later part 
of the Emperor Aurangzeb’s reign and the other during the great 
famine of 1176 B.S. Among other exhibitions one may be 
mentioned by Pundit Yogesa Chandra S‘astree of two important 
copper-plate grants from Rajputana and Guzerat and a beautiful 
image of Manjunath, a Buddhist deity, brought from Lhassa. 
Major P. R. T. Gurdon, 1.A., contributed Notes on the Khasis, 
Syntengs, and allied tribes mhabiting Khasia Jaintia hill district 
in Assam. These tribes are matriarchal; and among them the 
youngest daughter inherits from the mother; failing daughters, the 
property passes to the youngest niece; and failing a niece, to the 
youngest female cousin. Babu J..M. Dass in his paper ‘“‘ Notes on 
the titles used in Orissa” said that the Oria people are very fond 
of titles, which they accept not only from the Raja of Puri but also 
from great landlords and even from uber castemen, while new titles 
are still being invented. 
Journal Part I. 
Five numbers were published during the year under review, 
namely, No. 2 of Vol. UXXII and Nos. 1-4 of Vol. LXXIII. The 
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