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Col. J. F. Tennant, proposed by Col. H. Hyde, seconded by 
Dr. F. Stoliczka. 
Dr. W. Waagen, proposed by Dr. F. Stoliczka, seconded by Mr. 
H. Blochmann. 
G. C. Farr, Esq., proposed by Mr. EH. Hyde, seconded by Col. 
H. Hyde. 
The following gentlemen have intimated their desire to with- 
draw from the Society, C. F. Amery, Esq., Capt. J. P. Basevi, R. E., 
T. Thomas, Esq., H. W. Seevens, Esq. 
The Council reported on the progress which has been made in 
the collecting and preservation of Sanskrit MSS., and communicated 
the subjoined correspondence on the subject. 
In laying this correspondence on the table the President observed, 
that inasmuch as the measures proposed and subsequently under- 
taken for the conservation of Sanskrit MSS., and the preparation 
of Catalogues, were communicated to the Society, in May 1869, the 
Council thought it right to inform the Society of the progress which 
had since been made in the matter. He referred to the original 
instructions of the Government, and the few alterations which have 
been suggested by the Society. The task was entrusted to Babu 
Rajendraléla Mitra, whom the Government had recommended for 
it. One instalment of the “ Notices &c.’’ had been published and 
was on the table before them. It would be seen that this was not 
in the tabular form which the Government at first contemplated, 
but the deviation from it had been sanctioned by the Govern- 
ment of Bengal in their letter, dated 22nd May, 1869, and 
whether or not every one would consider it judicious, there were 
certainly very substantial reasons to be urged in support of it. 
When these ‘‘ Notices’? were submitted to Government, no objection 
was taken to the form of the publication, but it appears that the 
advisers of the Government considered that it was defective in 
certain important points. The President quoted a passage to this 
effect from an official letter of the Government of India. He 
could not better explain the error into which the Government 
had here fallen, than by reading the answer which the Secretary 
of the Society had written in behalf of the Council. In conclusion 
