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* Washington : — Smithsonian Institution. 



* : — United States Geological Survey. • 



I : — U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 



* Wellington : — New Zealand Institute. 



* Wiirttemberg — Natural History Society. 

 t Yokohama : — Asiatic Society of Japan. 



* : — German Oriental Society, 



* Zagreb : — Archaeological Society. 



Abstract of Council Proceedings during 1889. 

 January Slst, Ordinary Meeting. 



An application from the Geographical Society of Berlin for an ex- 

 change of publications was declined. 



It was ordered that Part I of the Society's Journal should be 

 continued to the Geographical Society of Paris. 



Intimation was received from the Royal Academy of Sciences, 

 Turin that tlie competition for the seventh Bressa prize of the value of 

 12 000 Italian lire commenced on 1st January 1887 and would close on 

 Slst December 1890, to be awarded to the scientific author or inventor 

 of any nationality who should have made the most important and useful 

 discovery, or published the most valuable work on Physical and Experi- 

 mental Science, Natural History, Mathematics, Chemistry, Physiology 

 and Pathology, as well as Geology, History, Geography and Statistics. 



The name of Pandit Chandrakanta Tarkalankara was added to the 

 list of distinguished persons who receive the Bibliotheca Indica, in re- 

 coo-nition of the services he has rendered to Sanskrit literature. 



Read a letter from the Government of India, Home Department, 

 received through the Government of Bengal, requesting that a report on 

 the progress made in the search for Sanskrit Manuscripts should be sub- 

 mitted after three years. 



Sanction was accorded for the purchase of a copy of an annotated 

 edition of the Padma Purana which was being published by the Hon. 

 Rao Saheb Vishvanath Narayana Mandlik. 



On an application from the Trustees, Indian Museum, enquiring 

 whether the Society would publish a list of Oriental Cicindelidoe, com.- 

 piled by Mr. E. T. Atkinson, as well as other lists on the same plan 

 from time to time, it was decided to publish them as a Supplement to 

 the Joui-nal, Part IT, and to supply the Trustees with 100 copies of each 

 list on poyment. 



