Annual Report. [ February, 1905. 
headed ‘“‘ A Forgotten City ” deals with Nagarchain, the halting-sta- 
tion or villa of the Emperor Akbar, a few miles from Agra, which 
rose to be a city in the early part of his reign but was lost sight of 
before his death, and can with difficulty be identified at the present 
moment. 
“The Mints of the Mughal Emperors,” by Mr. Burn, gives a 
list of the mint towns of the Mughal Emperors arranged 
in alphabetical order and divided into chronological sections. 
Mirza Mehdy Khan criticised the translation of the Quatrains of 
Baba Tahir by Mr. Heron-Allen and gave an edition of these. Mr. 
H. R. Nevill’s paper on Mahals in Sarkar Lakhnau and Maulavi 
Abdul Wali’s paper on the Antiquity and Traditions of Shahzad- 
pur, throw some light on obscure points of Mohammedan history. 
Coming to modern History, Babu Gerindranath Dutt’s history 
of the Hutwa Raj is an important contribution on the struggles 
which the English Government had in the revenue settlement of 
the Provinces of Lower Bengal for 30 years or more from the 
date of the Diwani. When. writing in our Proceedings, for 1888 
on the Dutch hatchments in Chinsura Church, Mr. Beames left some 
initials undeciphered. The late Dr. C. R. Wilson studied Dutch 
heraldry and identified these names. His paper is to be found in 
vol. LX XIII, No. 3. oe 
Of the linguistic papers the most important is that by Major 
P. R. T. Gurdon on the Morans, a tribe inhabiting the hills in the 
Assam valley. By a comparison of the words in their language 
with those of Kacharis, Bodos and Dimasas, Major Gurdon says 
that they are allied to the Kacharis. Babu Gerindranath Dutt’s 
paper on the Bhojpuri dialects spoken in Saran is a revised edition 
of the notes supplied by him to the Linguistic Survey. : 
Of the Tibetan papers, those by Mr. EH. H. Walsh have already 
been noticed in the last Report. The only interesting additional 
paper received during the year under review is by Rey. A. H. 
Francke entitled “A Language Map of West Tibet with notes” 
prepared for the benefit of the students of his Ladaki Grammar. 
There has unfortunately been some irregularity in the issue 
of the Society’s Journal, Part I, and it has now been decided 
to issue the Journals promptly, publishing such material as is 
available, and at least quarterly. 
Journal Part II. 
The past year has been one of great activity in the Natural 
History section of the Society, no less than six numbers of Part IT 
of the Journal having been issued with 358 pages and nine illustra- 
tive plates, this quantity being more than three times as much as 
in the preceding year.’ This is due partly to the fact that some 
papers read during 1903 were published during the past year, and 
partly to the greater efforts that have been made to publish papers 
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