1894] Annual Report. 19 



Nos. 1 to 3 of 1893) containing 331 pages of letter-press and 9 plates ; 

 four numbers of the Journal, Part II (No. 3 of 1892, Nos. 1 to 3 of 

 1893) containing 264 pages of letter-press, and 13 plates ; two num- 

 bers of the Journal, Part III (Nos. 1 and 2 of 1893), containing 94 

 pages of letter-press ; an extra number of the Journal, Part I for 1892, 

 containing 64 pages of letter-press and 30 plates. Indexes to the Journal, 

 Parts I and II for 1892, were also published. 



Building. 



Although Rs. 2,428 was spent on the building in 1887, extensive 

 repairs were found necessary during the year. They were carried out 

 by Messrs. Mackintosh Burn & Co., at a cost of Rs. 9,674-1-3. 



Anthropology. 



In August 1892, the Monthly General Meeting resolved that a third 

 section dealing with Anthropology, Ethnography and Folk-lore, should 

 be added to the Society's Journal, and that the Council should be au- 

 thorized to enter into negotiations with the Government of Bengal in 

 order to obtain a grant in connection therewith. An application w^as 

 addressed to the Government of Bengal, and they were pleased to 

 sanction a grant of Rs. 2,000 a year for the purpose of enabling the 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal to add such a third section to their Journal. 

 During the year 1893, the Government of Assam sanctioned a grant 

 of Rs 1,000 a year and the Government of Madras Rs. 500 for the two 

 official yeai's 1893-94 and 1894-95, for the same purpose. 



Elliott Prize for Scientific Research. 



During the year 1892, the Hon'ble Sir Charles Elliott created 

 an endowment for the encoiu'agement of original research in Physical 

 Science in Bengal and for this purpose invested the sum of Rs. 5,000 

 in Government 4 per cent, promissory notes, yielding an annual return 

 of Rs. 200. The scheme proposed was that a prize should be awarded 

 from the annual sum received as interest, whether in cash, or partly in the 

 form of a gold medal and partly in cash, for any original essay giving 

 the result of original research or investigation in any branch of Physical, 

 Chemical, Mathematical or Natural Science. The Trustees appointed 

 to administer the property were the President of the Asiatic Society, 

 the Vice-Chancellor of the Calcutta University, and the Director of 

 Public Instruction, Bengal. 



The Council of the Asiatic Society have authorized the Pi'esident to 

 act as a Trustee, and have agreed to the prize being awarded at the 

 Annual General Meeting. 



