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from his house. I have recently been there myself, and also send four 

 drawings (Plate II) taken from the band of carving on its exterior. 

 It is interesting to find there the double triangle as well as the Cross 

 and the Svastika, and I am in hopes that now attention has been 

 called to this subject in the minds of some of the permanent employes 

 and residents, more researches may give still further results as regards 

 the former and the present practices and beliefs of the people of''" the 

 Happy Valley." The conquests of Alexander and his armies, would 

 seem to have left their impress on many of the countenances' of the 

 Mahomedan population of Kashmir, for we not unfrequently meet with 

 a pure Greek type of features amongst these people ,v the way also, 

 in which some of the peasants when driving their cows home or out 

 to pasture drape themselves with their Shawl or Chuddar, in every 

 particular recalls certain bas-reliefs in the Museums at Athens,'illustrat- 

 ing the same occupation and scene. 



I remain dear Sir, 

 Srinagar : Yours faith-fully, 



November lOth, 1896. Harriet G. M. Murray- Aynsley. 



Rai 9arat Candra Das Bahadur, CLE , exhibited the full size 

 portrait (in oils) of a Tibetan Princess taken from life (an Ethnological 

 type), also a drawing of the Grand Monastery of Tashi-lhunpo and a 

 picture of the Buddhist Pantheon of Tibet. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. An account of travels on the shores of Lake Yamdo- Croft. —By 

 Rai ^arat Candra Das Bahadur, CLE. 



2. Note on the identity of the Tsangpo of Tibet with the Dihonq o 

 Assam. — By Rai pARAT Candea Das Bahadur, CLE. 



3. Nadir Shah and Muhammad Shah.— By William Irvine, Late 

 of the Bengal Civil Service. 



The papers will be published in the Journal, Part L 



4. Noviciae Indicae, XV. Some additional Leguminosae (Papilio- 

 naceae). — By D^. D. Pratn. 



The paper will be published in the Journal, Part II. 



5. The Antiquity of the Poet Ndgarl Das and of the Poetess Basik 

 Bihari alias Bam Thani.—By Pandit Mohanlal Yishnulal Pandia 

 M.A.S.B., M.R.AS., M.G.V.S., late Prime Minister of the Pratabgarh 

 State in Rajputana. 



The paper will be published in the Journal, Pnvi I. 



