1904] Annual Beporf. 17 



that the Licchavis were foreigners, coming from Nisibis, is. to say the 

 least, startling. The same author also contributed a paper on the Mixed 

 Castes, mentioned in the Sanskrit Law Books, in which he discussed 

 the Ethnological meaning and probable derivation of all those caste 

 names. 



Chirand, a place of archaeological interest in the district of Saran, 

 which Dr. Hoey recently tried to identify with Yaisali, has been des- 

 cribed in a note by Babu Nundo Lai Dey. Mr. Edward O'Brien, De- 

 puty Commissioner of Kangra, contributed a grammar of the modern 

 vernacular of the Kangra valley, with a glossary of words peculiar to 

 that dialect. 



Finally, as regards Tibet, we have ready for immediate issue two 



articles by Mr. E. H. C. Walsh, I.C.S. One deals with the Tibetan 



Dictionary by Rai Sarat Chandra Das Bahadur. The value of the 



work, as a Dictionary of the literary language, according to Mr. Walsli 



is of a high standard, but it misses at the same time the necessary 



completeness as regards the colloquial language, and he suggests the 



compilation of a purely colloquial Dictionary. The other article gives 



an interesting list of Tibetan books, collected by a Japanese Buddhist 



scholar in Tibet. 



Journal, Part II. 



During the last year three numbers of Part II of the Journal have 

 been issued containing a number of interesting papers. The Zoological 

 side has been well represented by papers on the Aleurodidae, a family 

 of insects closely allied to the scale insects and very common in India, 

 by Mr. H. W. Peal, illustrated by five plates each containing numerous 

 figures, together with two other shorter papers by the same author. 

 The papers of interest by Mr. E. P. Stebbing illustrated by a plate relate 

 to a beetle (Thanasimus) which appears to be an active agent in des- 

 troying certain insects which damage forest trees, and on a parasitic 

 insect of the spruce firs, while Captain H. J. Walton contributes a note 

 on the occurrence of rare birds near Calcutta. 



The botanical papers include a description of some new Scrophu- 

 larin83 by Major D. Prain. Among the papers on general subjects is 

 an interesting comrnunication on two rain-bursts in Bengal by Mr. C. 

 Little, and one on an ancient Eastern Medicine by Mr. D. PTooper, while 

 Dr. P. C. Ray contributes two articles on some mercury salts. 



Journal, Part III. 



Two numbers of this Part were issued during the year, comprising 

 106 pages. There were nine separate papers, and with each number 

 were issued -.a Supplement. This last is an innovation suggested by 



