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death of Babii Ramdas Sen of Murshidabad, known for his work on 

 Indian antiquities entitled Aitihdsik Bahasya, and his fine collection of 

 manuscripts. Also of Babu Rakhal Das Haldar, whose edition of the 

 Ndga Vatnsdvali of Beniram, a poet of Chutiya Nagpur, and papers on the 

 ethnology and antiquities of that District, form valuable contributions 

 to our knowledge of a little known tract. 



Fublications : — Journal. — For the first part of our Journal which is, 

 as you know, devoted to philology and literature, we have had, during 

 the year 1887, a number of papers which have either already been pub- 

 lished or will appear during the current year. Amongst them is one 

 on the ' Safwi dynasty of Persia ' by Mr. E. E. Oliver ; Kashmiri riddles 

 by the Rev. J. H. Knowles ; the ' era of Lachhman Sen', and ' the 

 Mother of Jahangir ' by Mr. H. Beveridge ; ' Materials for a literary- 

 history of India ' by Mr. G. A. Grierson ; ' On the couplets or ' halts ' 

 on the coins of Shah Niiru-d-din Jahangir ' by Mr. C J. Rodgers, and, 

 by the same author, some critical remarks on the notes on the coins 

 mentioned by Major Raverty in his translation of the Tahaqdt-i-Ndsiri. 

 Babu Sarat Chandra Das gives an interesting digest of the Tibetan work 

 on geography called the Dsam Ling Gyesha, and another on ' the sacred 

 and ornamental characters of Tibet.' Dr. Fiihrer publishes three 

 grants of Govindachandra Deva of Kanauj, dating from the twelfth 

 century, and also the Kudarkhot inscription of Takshadatta, and Dr. 

 Rajendralala Mitra, a donative inscription of Vidyadhara Bhanja, an 

 Orissa Raja. We have papers on the ruins at Nagari in Mevvar by 

 Kaviraj Syamal Das, describing a tower mentioned by Tod as ' Akbar's 

 lamp' : on Buddha's Shadow-cave near Prabhasa by Mr. Cockburn : 

 on the excavated temple at Niirpur in Kangra by Mr. C. J. Rodgers : 

 on the city of Hirat, by Captain Yate, and on ancient mounds in the 

 Quetta district by Major J. F. Garwood, R. E. Mr. W. H. P. Driver, 

 also, has given us ethnological notes on the Asuras, Birijiyas, Bir'hors 

 and Khariyas, aboriginal tribes of the Chutiya Nagpur division. 



In Part II of the Journal, we have a paper on the mammals and 

 birds collected by Capt. Yate during his service with the Afghan Boun- 

 dary Commission, prepared by Dr. Scully, and also one on the Chiroptera 

 of Nepal by the same writer. Mr. J. Baly describes a new phytophagous 

 coleopteron found feeding on rice in the Chittagong district, and Mr. 

 E. T. Atkinson continues his notes on Indian Rhynchota, the third part 

 of the catalogue of species falling under the sub-order Heteroptera 

 having been read. M. E. Simon gives us two valuable papers on 

 the Arachnida of the Indian Museum collected in Tavoy and the 

 Andamans. Dr. G. Giles has two others on Am^iMpoda from the Bay 

 of Bengal ; Mr. Wood-Mason, one on a new crustacean belonging to the 



