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sion of this ancient and exceedingly important treatise. The
items illustrate clearly some of the enormous advantages which
native Indianists have over us Indianists of the Occident.
He tells me that his article upon the material available for a
critical edition of this treatise (see Sanskrit Research, 1. 37-) has
brought fruitful replies from various parts of India: 1. Report
of a complete ms. of the text at Chidambaram (otherwise, Chil-
ambaram : South Arcot, Madras, a few miles south of Cuddalore) ;
2. Report of the discovery in Malabar of an almost complete ms.
of Abhinavagupta's commentary on the text; 3. Information as
to 93 fine images painted on the inner walls of a temple of the
XIII. century, illustrating the various dancing postures enumer-
ated in chapter 4, stanzas 33 to 53 of our treatise. What is more :
above each picture is a description of each posture, the descrip-
tion (in Grantha characters) agreeing word for word with those
given in our treatise, chapter 4, stanzas 99-. The pictures enable
us to understand Bharata clearly.
Charles R. Lanman
Harvard University
PERSONALIA
Dr. B. Laufer, curator of anthropology in the Field Museum
of Chicago, was elected an honorary member of the Finnish
Archaeological Society of Helsingfors on the occasion of the fif-
tieth anniversary of this Society on November 6, 1920, and a cor-
responding member of the Societe des Amis de l'Art Asiatique,
Hague, Holland. He was recently appointed also Honorary
Curator of Chinese Antiquities in the Art Institute of Chicago.
In commemoration of the labors of Prof. Friedrich Hirth,
of Columbia University, who attained the age of 75 years in April
of this year, a 'Festschrift fur Friedrich Hirth' is announced
by the Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Kultur und Kunst des fernen
Ostens (Oesterheld & Co., Berlin).
The Rev. C. H. "W. Johns, M.A., Litt.D., late Master of St.
Catharine's College, Cambridge University, and Assyriologist,
died in August.
Prof. Richard Gottheil, of Columbia University, is attached
to the University of Strasbourg for the present academic year.
Dr. Henry Schaeffer has become Professor of Old Testament
Exegesis in the Lutheran Theological Seminary, Chicago.
