RECEIPTS. Beceived through Mr. A. T. Seymour (Hartford), the donations of L. P. McCarthy (San Francisco) £1... V. Jochooram (Bombay) Chingleput Branch A New York F. T. S. £ 100 ... ... Mr. W, Harnquist (Stockholm) £ 1-16-2 Mr. S. DeJostrzebski (N. S A.) 2s 6d ... ... Mrs. Brocklesby and Mr. Sydney E. Clarke (Hartford) £ 2... Mr. O. K. Kramer (New York) 8s. 3d. " G. B. Finch (Cambridge) £50 Dr. Vithaldoss Mr. Byramji Panday ... ... ... Masulipatam Branch Mr. Martanda Row Baboji Messrs C. Kotayya and Budruddin Kur... Dr. Pandurang Gopal... Mr. Manmohandass Dayoldass... 10 ... ... 10 20 10 10 Mr. A. D. Ezekiel, Drs. Fakirji Rutonji aud Abasali Rs. 5. each. Messrs. Vinayak Mukund, K. E, Pillai, P. R. Naidu, K. Shir ... Amount received in the Hall without names Do. from Mr. W. Q. Judge, General Secretary American Mr. W. Q. Judge 10 ... 5 15 25 " 3 10 .... .... 3 1:00 John Smith William Maine... J. H, Scotford... "No. 842" Mr. Albeit Targee Edward Leeds... Cash donation Mrs. M. J. Robbing 0:30 ... ... ... Ida B. Patch HYDERABAD THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. Meetings are held every Friday morning, and Vedantic subjects are explained. A series of interesting lectures on Hindu Theology was delivered by a local Pandit who was recently introduced into the Theosophical Society. A Brahmin Pandit is also engaged to read and explain the Upanishads, and in return for this service he receives a small remuneration from the Branch. The progress made during the year was chiefly due to the fact that the meetings were opened to the public, and the lectures on Vedanta were interesting. Bro. Bertram Keightley visited the Branch and a public meeting was held, in which he explained the wonderful progress Theosophy is making in Europe and America. Devan Bahadur P. Srinivasa Row also visited the Branch. Its financial condition is by no means discouraging. The anniversary of the Branch was held on the 21st November last. The Branch hopes that if the impression that "the Society's meetings are only of a private nature” is removed from the minds of those who happen to have formed such a notion, and if greater publicity could be given, it can get more people who might be benefited by hearing the lectures. THE COOCH BEHAR THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. A meeting to organise a branch of the Theosophical Soociety at Cooch Behar was held at the Jenkins' School premises on the 5th August, 1890, at 6 p.m. His Highness the Maharajah Bhup Bahadur of Cooch Behar, who was empowered by Colonel Olcott, the PresidentFounder of the Theosophical Society, in a telegram dated Adyar, Madras, the 2nd August, 1890, to organise a Branch Society here, presided over the meeting; the officers of the State, the zemindars, and the residents of the place were present. The meeting to initiate candidates and to appoint the Executive Committee of the Cooch Behar Branch of the Theosophical Society was held at the Palace on the 6th August, 1890, at 8 a. m. The candidates were duly initiated by His Highness and the following were then appointed members of the Executive Committee: President. His Highness Lieutenant-Colonel Maharajah Sri Naripendra Nara yan Bhup Bahadur, of Cooch Behar, G.C.I.E., F.T.S., &c. 1 Vice Presidents. Babus Priya Nath Ghosh, M. A., and Amrita Lal Sen. Members. Kumar Rangila Narayan, Babus Kunja Behari Majumdar, B. A., Harendra Narayan Chaudhuri, B. L., and Pashupati Nath Chatterji, F. T. S. Babu, Kedar Nath Majumdar, Treasurer. Kumar Gojendra Narayan, (Jr.) M. R. A. C., and Babu Santa Prasad Sinha, F. T. S., Secretaries; Babu Nagendra Nath Mitra, M. A., B. L., Assistant Secretary. THE FUTURE OF THE ORIENTAL LIBRARY. The following letter from the learned Indian Sanskritist author, Professor Dvivedi, was then read by the Secretary: GENTLEMEN, It is over four years since the day when our respected and beloved President-Founder performed the very noble ceremony of declaring open the Adyar Oriental Library. The results of the institution will, no doubt, be as far-reaching and universally beneficent as the idea of it, which has been conceived in the true spirit of universal brotherhood, originally intended. The endless topic of its inexhaustible advantages and benefits, individual, national, and universal,-has well-nigh been exhausted by our worthy President-Founder in his Inaugural address of 1886. It is now for us to see how far these aims and objects have been actually realised, and what remains for those interested in the revival of ancient literature to accomplish. And, the remark may be permitted, it is difficult to conceive not so much who are, as who are not, interested in such a revival. For such a revival means national regeneration, and moral and spiritual progress, not of any particular nation or community, but of the whole world. It has repeatedly been observed by intelligent and thoughtful men, here and abroad, that the ancient learning of India deserves a place, and perhaps the topmost one, even in the republic of modern advancement and research. None, but one whose eyes are entirely blinded by materialism, could fail to see the immense influence which the revival of Sanskrit literature has exercised on comparative philology and mythology, and therefore on the historical development of religion and metaphysics in general. And indeed the claims of ancient wisdom for recognition at our hands have been very well put on as neutral a ground as possible by our large-minded President-Founder. He says, "if the ancient books are as valuable as some allege, the sooner we prove it the better; if they are not, we cannot discern the fact too speedily." Either way a careful study of these books is extremely useful, to say nothing more. What we want at present therefore is such a thoroughly permanent footing for the library and its works as will ensure permanance to its future well-being and activity. The work before the institution is two-fold: the collection of fresh books and MSS. and the translation and publication of important works into English and subsequently into the several vernaculars. This is a question of funds, and competent co-operation. The library as it stands at present is unprovided for, though the work above alluded to, is just the one, without which the original object of the institution cannot be said to be fulfilled. It is therefore the duty of every native of India, from the richest prince to the poorest peasant, to contribute his mite towards this national work. It is truly national, inasmuch as it is a work, nay the work, most essential for national regeneration, accompanied with moral and spiritual exhaltation. It is in fact the only way to polish into nicety the various rough |