91 
1895]. G. A. Grierson— Bangall version of the Lord's Prayer. 
my article. Father Heinrich Roth, S. J., attached to the Goa Mission 1 
journeyed from Goa to Agra about 1650-1660. About 1665 he re¬ 
turned to Rome, and drew up for Athanasius Kircher, S. J., five 
plates for the latter’s China Illustrata (published at Amsterdam in 
1667). The first four of these plates contain the alphabet and elements 
(in the Devanagari character) of Sanskrit, explained in Latin, and the 
fifth Our Lord’s Prayer and an Aye Maria in Sanskrit and Latin, to 
serve as an exercise for beginners. According to Constable, these are 
the first specimens of Sanskrit ever printed or engraved (as for a book) 
in Europe, or indeed anywhere. 
Abraham Roger was the first Dutch Chaplain (1631-1641) 8 at Puli- 
cat. He died at Gouda in Holland in 1649. In 1670, his widow pub¬ 
lished a work by him entitled, '‘La Porte ouverte , pour parvenir d la 
Connaissance du Paganisme cache.' 1 3 On pp. 29 & ff. of this book there is 
printed a Dutch translation of Bhartrhari’s Qatakas made by a Brahman 
named Padmanabha the first translation from Sanskrit published in any 
European language. 
Finally I may refer the reader to the Hindustani translation of 
the Acts of the Apostles, dated 1748, to which attention was drawn by 
Mr. W. Irvine in the Proceedings of the Society for Deer. 1893, pp. 174 
& ft. 
The following papers were read :— 
1. On the Dogdm Mint.—By Surgeon-Captain W. Yost, Indian 
Medical Service. 
The paper will be published in the Journal , Part I. 
2. On Polarisation of Electric Pay by Double Befracting Crystals .— 
By Professor J. C. Bose, b.a. (Cantab), b. sc. (Lond.). 
(Abstract). 
The following investigations were undertaken by the author to 
find out natural substances which would polarise the Electric Ray. In 
the present paper the author gives an account of the polarising action 
of certain crystals on the transmitted ray. 
The apparatus used consisted of an Electric Radiation emitting 
Electro-magnetic Radiation of short wave length, a Polariser, an 
Analyser and a Receiver responding to incident radiation. 
The Polariser and Analyser are adjusted in a crossed position, and 
1 See Constable’s Edition of Bernier’s travels, pp. 329 n., 332 n. 
2 Constable’s Bernier, p. 334 n. Preface to Bohlen’s Bhartrhari, p. xii. and 
elsewhere. 
3 Amsterdam, Jean Schipper, 1670. 
