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The purchase of tlie manuscripts of " TafsIr-i-GharIb " " Sharhu-s- 

 Sirajiyyah " and " Zakhlra-i-IskandaranI," price Rs. 40, was approved. 



At the request of Mr. L. de Niceville, a copy of Wallace's 

 "Darwinism" was ordered to be purchased for the Society's Library. 



The purchase of a copj of Elia's English translation of the 

 *' Tarikh-i-Rashidi," price 30 shillings was approved. 



Mr. Wilson having returned and resumed charge of General 

 Secretaryship from Dr. Ranking, the change was ordered to be reported 

 at the next Monthly General Meeting. 



On the recommendation of the Philological Secretary, the purchase 

 of a copy of Waddell's " Tibetan Buddhism," was sanctioned. 



August 1st, Ordinary Meeting. 



P^mission was granted to Mr. H. Beveridge to borrow the manu- 

 script of " Jawami-i-Ahkamu-n-Nujum " and a lithograph book entitled 

 " Hadaiqu-n-Nujum " from the Society's Oriental Library. 



The Librarian was ordered to subscribe for two copies of the 

 Journal and Text of the Buddhist Text Society of India. 



An order was given to purchase two copies of a new edition of 

 the Atharvaveda Sarhhita with the commentary of Sayanacarya edited 

 by the late Rai Bahadur faijkar Pand,urang Pandit, vols. I-IV. 



In reply to a letter from the Officiating Secretary to the Govern- 

 ment of India in the Home Department covering a proposal by Dr. 

 Grierson of a scheme for preliminary Language Survey of India and 

 asking if the Asiatic Society would give Government their advice as to 

 how the proposal could be carried into effect so far as Northern and 

 Central India were concerned and also whether the Society would be 

 willing to take charge of the necessai'y ojDerations provided that it were 

 assured of assistance from Government Officials and an annual grant, 

 the Government of India was informed that in the opinion of the Society, 

 the proposed Survey would be a work of the utmost utility, that it was 

 essential that the work should be entrusted to experts and that one or 

 more selected officers should be placed on special duty for that purpose 

 by the Government of India, that in the opinion of the Society, Dr. 

 Grierson was the fittest person to be placed in charge of the operations 

 provided that all District and Political Officers were requested to give 

 all necessary information and assistance, and that if the scheme was 

 carried out on these lines, the Society Avould be very glad, in order to 

 secure continuity in the event of change of officers, to undertake the 

 general control and supervision of the woi^k, and with this object, 

 the Society would place their library at the disposal of the selected 

 officer. 



