1890.] Anmcal Report. 35 



Mr. F. E. Pargiter was informed, in reply to an application that two 

 Mauusci'ipts of the Markandeya Furdna might be consulted and a list 

 of the various readings of importance be noted, that the Society would 

 endeavour to get the Manuscripts, but that he must make his own 

 arrangements for collating them. 



On the report of the Library Committee an offer of Rs. 40 was 

 made for a copy of Seebohm's work on Snipes, Plovers and Sandpipers 

 offered to the Society. The ofFer was accepted. 



It was decided, on a suggestion by the President, that a footnote 

 should be added to the investment account showing the different funds 

 to which the investments appertained. 



A copy of a Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts to be sold by 

 auction at Allahabad was referred to Dr. Rajendralala Mitra. 



May '30th, Ordinary Meeting. 



An application from the Academy of Sciences, Cracow, for an ex- 

 change of publications was declined. 



In reply to an enquiry by the Deputy Commissioner of Hurdui whe- 

 ther the Society could give a donation of its publications to the Colvin 

 Library lately opened at that station, it was ordered that a list of the 

 publications in the Bibliotheca Indica should be forwarded to ascertain 

 whether it contained any books that would be likely to be useful. 



A letter from Mr. F. E. Pargiter reporting that an old Muhammadan 

 resident of Maldah, had written an interesting account of that district, 

 with its ruins at Gaur and Panduah, and collected a number of rubbings 

 of the inscriptions there, was referred to the Philological Committee. 



On the report of the Natural History Secretary, the application 

 from the Ungarische Karpathen Verein for an exchange of publications 

 was declined. 



An application was made to the Government of Bengal to place 

 the name of the Strasburg University Library on the list of Institutions 

 to whom the Notices of Sanskrit Manuscripts are presented. 



The loan from the library of Keith Johnston's Physical Atlas was 

 authorized to a member for one week. 



J^^ne 27th, Ordinary Meeting. 



Read a letter from the Secretary, Theosophical Publication Fund 

 Society, Bombay, stating that the intention of reprinting Dr. Rajendra- 

 lala Mitra's translation of Patanjali's Yoga Sutra had been given up, 

 and that a new translation of the work would be made for publication 

 by the Society, 



An offer for the sale to the Society of a rare collection of Indian 

 views ill water colours by Indian artists, was declined. 



