1895]. G. A. Grierson — Bangixli version of the Lord's Prayer. 91 



my article. Father Heinrich Roth, S. J., attached to the Goa Mission ^ 

 journeyed from Goa to Agra about 1650-1660. About 1665 he re- 

 turned to Rome, and drew up for Athanasius Kircher, S. J., five 

 plates for the latter's China Illustrata (published at Amsterdam in 

 1667). The first four of these plates contain the alphabet and elements 

 (in the Devanagari character) of Sanskrit, explained in Latin, and the 

 fifth Our Lord's Prayer and an Ave Maria in Sanskrit and Latin, to 

 serve as an exercise for beginners. According to Constable, these are 

 the first specimens of Sanskrit ever printed or engraved (as for a book) 

 in Europe, or indeed anywhere. 



Abraham Roger was the first Dutch Chaplain (1631-1641 ) * at Puli- 

 cat. He died at Gouda in Holland in 1649. In 1670, his widow pub- 

 lished a work by him entitled, ^ La Porte ouverte, pour parvenir a la 

 Connaissance du Paganisme cache.^^ On pp. 29 & ff. of this book there is 

 printed a Dutch translation of Bhartrhari's Qatakas made by a Brahman 

 named Padmanabha the first translation from Sanskrit published in any 

 European language. 



Finally I may refer the reader to the Hindustani translation of 

 the Acts of the Apostles, dated 1748, to which attention was drawn by 

 Mr. W. Irvine in the Proceedings of the Society for Deer. 1893, pp. 174* 



& fe. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. On the Dogam Mint, — By Surgeon-Captain W. Vost, hidian 

 Medical Service. 



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



2. On Polarisation of Electric Bay by Double Refracting Crystals. — 

 By Professor J. C. Rose, b.a. (Cantab), b. sc. (Lond.). 



(Abstract). 



The following investigations were undertaken by the author to 

 find out natural substances which would polarise the Electric Ray. In 

 the present paper the author gives an account of the polarising action 

 of certain crystals on the transmitted ray. 



The apparatus used consisted of an Electric Radiation emitting 

 Electro-magnetic Radiation of short wave length, a Polariser, an 

 Analyser and a Receiver responding to incident radiation. 



The Polariser and Analyser are adjusted in a crossed position, and 



1 See Constable's Edition of Bernier's travels, pp. 329 n., 332 n. 



2 Constable's Bernier, p. 334 n. Preface to Bohlen's Bhartrhari, p. xii. and 

 elsewhere. 



3 Amsterdam, Jean Schipper, 1670, 



