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Barclay Memorial Medal. 
terms of the rules for the award of the Barclay Memo- 
rial Medal, there was no award during the vear. 
In connection with the award for 1919, the following 
members were appointed to form a Special Committee to make 
recommendations to the Council :—F. H. Gravely, Esq., D.Sc.. 
F.A.S.B., Lieut.-Colonel W. D. Sutherland, M.D., F.A.S.B.., 
IM.S., Major D. McCay, M.D., F.A.S.B., 1.M.S., B. L. Chau- 
dhuri, Fsq., B.A., D.Sc., F.R.S.E., F.L.S., and H. G. Carter. 
Esq., M.B., Ch.B. 
Elliott Prize for Scientific Research, 
The subject selected for the Elliott Prize for Scientific 
Research for the vear 1918 was Mathematics and the notification 
appeared in the Calcutta Gazette, dated 4th July, 1917 and 13th 
February, 1918. Two essays by Babu Bibhutibhushan Datta, 
M.Se., were received in competition, viz. (1) On the figures of 
equilibrium of a rotating mass of liquid for Jaws of attraction 
other than the law of inverse squares, Part I, (2) On the motion 
of two spheroids in an infinite liquid along the common axis of 
revolution. The Trustees decided to award to him the Elliott 
Prize for 1918. In terms of the notification, the award of 
Rs. 210 will be made to him at the Annual Meeting of the Society 
on Wednesday, the 5th February, 1919. 
Finance. 
The accounts of the Society for the year ending 31st 
December, 1918, are shown in the Appendix under the usual 
nternational 
Catalogue of Scientific Literature’ and“ War Bond.’’ State- 
ment No. 21 shows the Balance Sheet of the Society and of the 
different funds administered through it. 
The credit balance at the close of the year is Rs. 1,96.833-3-3, 
against Rs. 1,88,429-10-6 at 3lst December, 1917. Of this 
amount Rs. 1,68.500 belongs to the Permanent Reserve, the 
working balance—exclusive of funds administered for Govern- 
ment—being Rs. 28,333 as against Rs. 20,650 at the end of 1917. 
This increase is chiefly due to the transfer of Rs. 5, 
the Anthropological Fund to the Society’s Fund. The Anthropo- 
logical grant of Rs 2,000 has now been made available by 
the Government of Bengal for the publication in the Journal 
of papers not necessarily relating to anthropology. 
The Society has received the usual grants from the Gov- 
ernments of Bengal and India, including the Oriental Publi- 
cation Fund No. 2, which has been received for a further period 
of 5 years from April, 1917. The amounts received were as 
follows :— 
