File EWW/1/70 - Notes on Philology and Science

Description: Thin black hardbound notebook with unruled white pages, handwritten in ink. Some inserts.

Contents:

• "Headings of Sections of Shanamah from Macan's edition, Calcutta 1829"
• Pahlavi-transliterated-Persian words where some have folio and MS. numbers; short unorganized notes on Pahlavi and Persian grammar
• summary of article by Professor Terrein de Lacouperie in the "Academy" from 10 Oct. 1885, p.243-4 #
• notes on inscriptions and their locations in libraries
• notes on printing and correcting proofs calculations relating to the sun, moon, and the earth
• notes on different coins
• "Period of Gestation in Various animals, in days"
• short note and summary of different eras in different cultures according to different theories of creation
• notes from reading a "Review of History of India as told by its own historians" from 'Academy' 11 Sep 1886.

Inserts:

• Scraps of paper with a short glossary with word meanings in English and a note on the population of Parsis in different parts of the world
• transliteration of a Pahlavi excerpt
• Reading room request form