24 Aunual Tiepcrt. [Feb. 



Fund for preseut repairs and for the purpose of btaitiuj^ tlie proposed 

 " Repairs Fund." The proposal was submitted to the whole body of 

 ordinaiy membeis under rules &^{c), 6-iA and (35 and the votes recorded 

 were 111 " for " and I " against " the proposals. Messrs. Martin & Co. 

 submitted an estimate for repairing the Society's premises, which 

 was accepted as revised by the Repairs Committee, Rs. 6,000 being 

 assi<^ncd, and the work, which Avas taken np at once, has now made 

 considerable progress. 



On account of the marked improvement made in the tinancial 

 position of the Society during the past year, the Council thinks the 

 scheme for a Repairs Fund can this year bo definitely shaped, and that 

 we shall be in a position to devote the amount, lis. 1,200, now received 

 annually as rent for rooms leased to tlio Photographic Society, towards 

 keeping the premises in an onicient state of repair. The Council takes 

 this opportunity of thanking ISIr. Thornton for his assistance and 

 advice. 



On a report of an inspection of the Society's pictures kindly made 

 by Mr. E. B. Havell, and the Honorary General Secretary, Council 

 ordered the picture of a " Ghat at Benares " and the portraits of 

 D. J. Patterson, F. Stoliczka and Dwarkanath Tagore to be repaired 

 and varnished at a cost of Rs. 97. 



Exchange of Publications. 



Durin"" the last year, the Council accejited four applications for 

 exchange of publications with other Societies, viz., (I) from the Natur- 

 historische Gesellschaft, Niirnberg, the Society's Journal, Parts II and 

 III beino" exchanged for their Ahhandlangen, (2) from the Illinois State 

 fjaboiatory of Natural History, the Society's Journal, Part II, and 

 Proceedings being exchanged for its Bulletin, (3) from the Berliner 

 Eutomolooischer Verein, the Society's Journal, Part II, being exchanged 

 for their Journal, (4) from the Seminar fiir Orientalische Sprachen, 

 Berlin, the Society's Journal, Part I, and Proceedings being exchanged 

 for its Mittheilungen. 



Secretaries and Treasurer. 



There were two changes among the oilicers of the Society. Mr. 

 F. Finn resigned the office of Natural History Secretary in February 

 and !Mr. Tj. de Niceville was appointed. Lieut.-Col. L. A. Waddell 

 lequested to be relieved of the duties of Anthropological Secretary on 

 his transfer from Calcutta, aiid iMr. F. E. Pargiter, I.C.S., kindly 

 consented to undertake the work of editing Journal, Part III. The 



