1887.] Address. 4,7 



Babu Sarat Chandra Das, who has lately been elected an Associate 

 member of this Society on acconnt of his contributions from Tibetan 

 literature, has in hand a list of the philosophical and other technical 

 terms in Tibetan and their equivalents in Sanskrit and in English. 

 For this purpose he has been allowed to make use of the very- 

 valuable manuscript* of Csoma de Koros in the possession of the Society, 

 and which contains the Tibetan terms with Sanskrit and English equi- 

 valents of a very large vocabulary of such words, all of which is in Cso- 

 ma's own handwriting. He has also had at his disposal a rare Burmese 

 manuscript on the same subject from our library. The work is a much 

 needed one, for these terms have hitherto proved more or less of a stum- 

 bling-block to Tibetan students and a collection like that proposed should 

 be of much service to them. 



The Burmese and Siamese manuscripts in the possession of the 

 Society have also been examined, and the former have been catalogued, 

 by a Burmese monk from Upper Burma. The list formed is in the press 

 and will be brought out under the supervision of Moung Hla Oung. 

 Our new Pandit is engaged on the completion of the catalogue of our 

 Sanskrit manuscripts, and a Maulvie from the Madrassah has similarly 

 been employed on the list of our Arabic and Persian manuscripts under 

 an arrangement made by Dr. Hoernle. I had hoped that the same 

 gentleman would have given us his long promised ' Catalogue raisonne ' 

 of the coins in our cabinet, but his absence from India has postponed 

 the completion of this very necessary work for the present. 



Notices of Sanskrit MSS.—I have to refer to another publication 

 which may be regarded as a fifth part of our issues, and that is the 

 ' Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts ' in private libraries in Bengal, 

 prepared by Dr. Mitra and published by the Society on behalf of 

 Government. Similar lists have been compiled in almost every Province 

 in India during the last eighteen years, and the time has now come 

 when they should be collated and consolidated. Our local list was 

 commenced in 1870, and, since then, 22 parts have been published, con- 

 taining 2,975 pages and notices of 2,963 manuscripts, mostly illustrated 

 by extracts from the originals. During 1886, some 74 pages contain- 

 ing 73 notices have been issued. 



Work outside the Society. — It would be impossible for me to attempt 

 an adequate description of the progress made outside our Society in 

 the subjects to which the attention of its members is directed. 

 These subjects embrace a wide, and as knowledge progresses, an 



* This manuscript is described at some length by Dr. Mitra in the Appendix, 

 p. 207, of Dnka's life of Csoma de Koros, which also contains mnch information 

 regarding that distinguished Tibetan scholar's connection with this Society. 



