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Society. The ' Madras Journal of Literature and Science ' contains papers 

 by the editor, Captain E,. H. C. Tufnell, on ' Hints to coin-collectors in 

 Southern India,' by the Rev. M. Phillips, ' on the cosmogony of the 

 Vedas,' and the text and a translation of a Pallava inscription from 

 Amaravati, by Dr. Hultzsch. We have not received anything from the 

 Ceylon Branch of the Asiatic Society during the year, but in the Journal 

 of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society., there are some papers 

 of interest to us in India. One is an English- Sulu-Malay vocabulary, 

 another is 'on roots in the Malay language,' by Dr. Pijnappel, and a 

 third is Mr. E. M. Satow's paper on the bibliography of Siam. I would 

 also notice the second series of 'Miscellaneous papers relating to Indo- 

 China ' edited by Dr. R. Host, which have been reprinted for the 

 Straits Society from the Malayan ' Miscellanies,' the Transactions and 

 Journals of the Batavian Society, and the Journals of the Royal Geogra- 

 phical and Royal Asiatic Societies, and our own Journal. The Journal 

 of the China Branch of the Boyal Asiatic Society contains a further 

 instalment of Mr. G. Phillip's paper on the seaports of India and 

 Ceylon from Chinese sources. In the Journal of the Royal Asiatic 

 Society of London, I would draw attention to the papers by Mr. Senathi 

 Raja on ' the pre- Sanskrit element in ancient Tamil ' ; Major General 

 Haig, ' on Ibn Batiita in Sindh ' ; and Mr. G. A. Grierson ' on some 

 useful Hindi books'. Mr. F. Pincott continues his studies on the 

 metrical arrangement of the hymns of the Rig-Veda, and gives his 

 views on the peculiar system adopted in the first Mandala, and Mr. 

 H. G. Keene has an article ' on the revenues of the Moghul Empire.' 

 Dr. T. Duka furnishes an essay on the Braliui grammar of the late Dr. 

 Trumpp, in which he makes some valuable additions to our knowledge 

 of this little-known language. The note by the Rev. S, Beal on Fah- 

 Hien, the Chinese traveller, may be mentioned with his new transla- 

 tion of the life of Hieun Tsiang. 



Foreign Societies. — In America, under the auspices of the Ameri- 

 can Oriental Society, a goodly number of papers have been published of 

 interest to us in India. Professor Bloomfield gives us an article on ' two 

 hymns from the Atharva Veda,' and Professor E. W. Hopkins contributes 

 papers on ' the condition of Hindu women in the Mahabharata,' 'the 

 Vyuha or order of battle in the Mahabharata, ' Fire-arms unknown in 

 ancient India,' and a short critique on Professor Biihler's edition of Mann. 

 Dr. A. y. W. Jackson pursues his Zend studies, and has two papers on 

 ' Avestan similes,' and a translation with notes of the Afrigdn-Rapithwina 

 of the Avesta, whilst the Rev. J. S. Chandler gives an article ' on the 

 transliteration of Sanskrit proper names in Tamil,' and Professor 

 Avery has an essay ' on the relationship of the Kachari and Qaro Ian- 



