(2). To be a medium of inter-communication within its 

 scope for officials and literary men in India and 

 the East. 



(3). To gather together those minute details which are 

 so necessary for the building up of useful generali- 

 sations on the structure of society in modern 

 India, and for the proper explanation of the 

 existence and forms of modern institutions, cus- 

 toms, and beliefs. 



The methods will be to admit : — 



(1). Notes and short articles, questions, and answers to 

 those questions, on all points connected with the 

 physical geography, ancient and modern topogra- 

 phy, antiquities, history, flora, fauna, and products 

 of India; with its people, their history, distribution, 

 languages, religions, castes, customs, trades, and 

 occupations. 



( 2 ). Also similar notes and queries bearing on any branch 

 whatever of practical administration or trade. 



{ 3 ). Any scrap, however trivial or familiar to the writer, 

 and it may be to the editors ; as no facts, connect- 

 ed with the country or the people, can be too 

 trivial or too familiar to be worth recording. 

 What is a mere common-place to the Anglo-Indian 

 is often a new revelation to the European scholar : 

 it is most important to discover in what other parts 

 of the country a cus'om known to be current in 

 one part does or does not prevail ; and minute 

 local variations of customs constitute valuable 

 material. 



(4). Any scrap from any trustworthy printed source, or 

 from any observer, however slender his attainments, 

 and however humble his sphere in life. 



(5). But under no circumstances any contribution which 

 can be interpreted as in any way criticising the 



