34 Annual Beport. [Feb. 



Telephone Company to the wall of the Society's componnd, the necessary 

 permission was granted. 



March 28th, Ordinary Meeting. 



The thanks of the Council were conveyed to Mr. T. R. Munro for 

 his presentation to the Society of two enlarged photographs of plans 

 Calcutta ; one, taken in 1723 or 1724, showing the palisaded enclosure 

 within which the Christian community resided, and the other taken 

 from a survey made in 1753 by Lieutenant Wills, in command of the 

 Artillery in Bengal. 



An application from the Ungarischer Karpathen Verein for an 

 exchange of publications was referred to the Natural History Secretary. 



It was resolved on a letter from Count Landberg, asking the 

 Society to delegate some of its members to the 8th International Con- 

 gress of Orientalists to be held at Stockholm and Christiania in 

 September next, that Mons. E. Senart should be invited to represent 

 the Society. 



Authority was given to sell from the reserve stock of the Biblio- 

 theca Indica publications certain Sanskrit works applied for by Dr. 

 Lanman, Professor of Sanskrit in Harvard College, Cambridge, U. S. A. 



It was decided on a proposal made by the President, to issue as 

 a Supplement to Part II of the Journal, a set of Metric Tables prepared 

 for the use of the Survey of India offices, provided the sanction of 

 Government could be obtained to the publication by the Society. 



The Secretary of the Theosophical Publication Fund Society at 

 Bombay having agreed to accept the conditions laid down by Dr. Mitra 

 for permission to reprint his translation of Patanjali's Yoga Sutra, was 

 informed that the required permission would be given on receipt of an 

 agreement duly signed. 



April 2bth, Ordinary Meeting. 



An exchange of publications with the Society of Naturalists, Kiev, 

 was sanctioned. 



An offer from Maulavi Sakhawut Hossein to make an Urdu trans- 

 lation of Beale's Oriental Biography, if the Society would publish the 

 woi-k at its own cost, was declined. 



Dr. A. Crombie was appointed a Member of the Council in place 

 of the Hon. A. Wilson, resigned, in consequence of leaving India on 

 furlough. 



A presentation was announced from Mr. J. T. Gladstone of a 

 photograph of the palm tree (Gorypha, sp. inc.) flowering in the 

 Society's grounds. 



