100 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [No. 1. 



Journal. 



Seven numbers of the Journal have been published during the 

 year just closed. They contain a great variety of papers, many of 

 which were placed at the Secretary's disposal by order of the Most 

 Noble the Governor General of India, to whom the acknowledg- 

 ments of the Society are due. 



Oriental Grant. 



Marked progress has attended the change made in the mode of 

 publishing the Bibliotheca Indica ; no less than twenty -two Nos. have 

 been issued during the year under review. Of these 9 are Arabic and 

 the rest Sanscrit, and they include portions of the following works. 



1. The Uttara Naishada Charita by Sri Harsa, with the commen- 

 tary of Narayana, edited by Dr. Eoer, Fasciculi V. VI. & VII. 

 Nos. 46, 52, and 67. 



2. Chaitanya Chandrodaya, or the incarnation of Chaitanya, a 

 Drama in ten acts, by Kavikarnapura, with a commentary explanatory 

 of Prakrita passages, edited by Babu Eajendralal Mittra, Fasciculi 

 I. II. Nos. 47, and 48. 



3. Suyuty's Itqan or the exegetic sciences of the Koran. Edited 

 by Moulavees Bashurooddin and Nurool Haqq, with an analysis by 

 Dr. Sprenger, Fasciculi II. III. Nos. 49, and 57. 



4. Taittiriya, Aittareya, Swetas'watara,Kena,Isa,Katha, Prasna, 

 Mundaka, and Mandukya Upanishads, translated by Dr. Eoer, Fasci- 

 culus II. No. 50. 



5. Sanity a Darpana or Mirror of Composition, a Treatise on Li- 

 terary Criticism, by Viswanatha Kaviraja, edited by Dr. Eoer and 

 translated into English by Dr. J. Ballantyne, Fasciculi III. IV. V. 

 Nos. 53, 54, and 55. 



6. Lalita-Vistara, or Memoirs of the life and Doctrines of Sakya 

 Sinha, edited by Babu Eajendralal Mittra, Fasciculus I. No. 51. 



7. Fotooh Al Sham, being an account of the Moslim Conquests in 

 Syria, by Aboo Ismaail Mohummed 'bin Abd Allah al'azdid al Bacri. 

 Edited by Ensign "W. N. Lees, Fasciculi I. II. Nos. 56 and 62. 



8. The Conquest of Syria, commonly ascribed to Aboo Abd 

 Allah Mohammad B. Omar al Waqidi, edited with Notes by Ensign 

 W. N. Lees, Fasciculi I. II. Nos. 59 and 66. 



9. A Dictionary of the Technical Terms used in the sciences of the 



