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eripts, valuable additions have also been made; there were 94 
Sanscrit manuscripts purchased or copied, and 6 Persian works 
were purchased. 
The Council regret that it has been beyond their power to make 
the Library as useful as the members have a right to expect it to 
be, and as the Council would earnestly desire to make it. The 
difficulty lies principally in the inadequate space now available 
for the books. It was chiefly on that account that the new con- 
templated edition of the Library catalogue has not been completed. 
The Council will, however, endeavour to remedy this growing evil at 
the earliest possible opportunity, but they cannot take any effective 
steps until the Natural History collections are removed from the 
Society’s house. 
The collection of MSS. has also been examined during last year. 
Maulavi Abdul Hakim, under the Secretary’s superintendence, 
checked the Arabic, Persian, and Hinddstani MSS., and Pundit 
Premchandra Choudhari examines at present the Sanscrit MSS. 
The Catalogue of the Punditis to be a catalogue raisonné ; he has 
analyzed about 500 works on grammar, lexicography, prosody, 
prose and poetry, rhetoric, mathematics, astronomy, and medicine. 
All MSS. received since the preparation of the old catalogues 
have been entered into the MS. catalogues of the Society. 
A list of the Societies and other scientific institutions, with which 
exchanges of publications have been made, is appended further on, 
PUBLICATIONS. 
The Council have anxiously bestowed continued attention upon the 
publications, as these constitute the truest indicia of active life in the 
Society, and they have now the satisfaction to announce that the 
49th volume of the Journal will very shortly be completed, and one 
volume of Proceedings was issued ; both will extend over more than 
1200 pages, accompanied by 36 plates. It has been the aim of the 
officers of the Society not only to insure the regularity of issue of the 
various numbers of the Journal and Proceedings, but also to intro- 
duce an improvement in the illustrations accompanying the papers. 
The value of the improvements effected is clearly indicated by the 
increasing applications for the various numbers of the Journal and 
