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end of July, when he too resigned, and Mr. J. H. Elliott was appointed. 

 Babu Amrita Lall Das succeeded Babu Mohendra^ Chunder^ Mukerji as 

 copyist in May. 



Bibliotheca Indica. 



Eighteen fasciculi were published during the] year, fifteen in the 

 Sanskrit and three in the Arabic-Persian series. They belong to ten differ- 

 ent works, of which one is in the Arabic- Persian and nine are in the Sanskrit 

 series. Among the latter there are three new publications, ] viz., the 

 Pardsara Smriti, the Susruta and the SthavirdvaUcharita ; and one 

 among them, the Pdtanjala Yoga Sutra has been completed. All these 

 publications, with the exception of the Susruta and the Pdtanjala Yoga 

 Sutra, are text editions. Of the Pdtanjala Yoga Sutra both text and 

 translation have been published pari passu. 



A. Arabic- Persian Series. 



1. Of the Isabah or Biographical Dictionary of persons who knew 

 Muhammad, by Ibn Hajar, three fasciculi have been published by Maulvi 

 'Abdul Hai. This is a voluminous work of which manuscripts are only 

 with great difficulty procurable. When the work, in 1853, was com- 

 menced, no complete manuscripts appear to have existed, and in 1856 it 

 was dropped in the middle of the second volume for want of them. This 

 portion of the work, i. e., the first volume, completed in 1856, and part 

 of the second volume, was edited by the three Maulvis, Muhammad 

 Wajih, 'Abdu'l Haqq and Gholam Qadir. In 1864 it was determined to 

 complete the dictionary as far as possible, and the fourth volume was 

 published by Maulvi 'Abdul Hai, who finished it in 1873. In that 

 year, unexpectedly, three manuscripts of the second and third volumes 

 turned up in the possession of Maulvi Kabiruddin Ahmad. These are 

 now being published by Maulvi Abdul Hai, and there is every hope that 

 this important work will soon be completed. Of the three fasciculi pub- 

 lished during the year under review, two belong to the second, and one 

 to the third volume. Of the whole work, therefore, the Society has 

 issued volumes I and Uncomplete, and of volumes III and IV, seven and 

 five fasciculi respectively. The first volume comes down to the end of 

 j re, giving biographical notices of 2759 ' male witnesses ;' the seventh 

 fasciculus of the second volume to the beginning of ^ 'ay in ('Abdullah), 

 bringing down the notices to the 8939th " male witness." The third 

 volume, commencing with the middle of £ ('Amru) and with new serial 

 numbers, carries the notices down to nearly the end of <3 Kof (Qanan) 

 and contains 1249 " male witnesses." The fourth volume forms a dis- 



