February, 1913.] Annual Report. ix 
Khan Bahadur Shaikh Ahmed Husain, Taluqdar of Pary- 
awan, Partabgarh, a member of the Society, offered Rs. 100 
to the Library Fund; the Council has accepted with thanks 
his generous gift. With this money, a volume of Turki MSS. 
consisting of a collection of fifteen Turkish works by the cele- 
brated Mir Ali Shir was purchased for the Library. 
copy of the Kanarak Album containing about 250 
bromide photographs, price Rs. 300, was also purchased for the 
ibrary. 
t has been proposed to prepare a catalogue of the serial 
publications dealing with Natural Sciences that are available in 
Calcutta, and a small Sub-committee has been formed to work 
out the scheme. Various libraries and institutions possessing 
scientific periodicals have been asked to co-operate, and there 
will be a meeting of the Sub-committee shortly to consider the 
matter further. ; 
In addition to Rs. 600 granted to the Rev. H. Hosten, 
S.J., during 1911, the Council has sanctioned a further sum of 
Rs. 400 towards obtaining photographic facsimiles of historical 
documents referring to the Mogul Empire, Tibet, Bengal an 
Pegu (Burma). 
Mr. J. H. Elliott has continued as Assistant Secretary 
throughout the year. 
Pandit Balai Lal Dutt, B.A., has been appointed pandit of 
the Society in the place of Pandit Nava Kumar Lahiri, B.A., 
and Babu Ramesh Chandra Chatterji has been confirmed in the 
ost of ist. , 
The Council has decided to dispense with the services of 
Munshi Ahmad Hosain from the 3lst January, and to appoint 
an English-speaking Maulavi on Rs. 50 per mensem, in his 
place. 
International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, 
Messrs. I. H. Burkill and F. H. Gravely acted as joint 
secretaries of the Regional Bureau until Mr. Burkill’s retirement 
from India, when the Natural History Secretary took over his 
work, _ : 
The Bureau suffered in efficiency during the year by “ge 
recurring illness of the clerk in charge, and only 387 index slips 
were despatched. Arrangements have now been made, however, 
for expediting the she aes 
Two hundred and seventy-six V 
£147-7-6 was remitted to the Central Bureau. 
lumes were distributed and 
The cost of 
of the indexing of scientific literature pu 
taken over by a Regional 
timated its assent. 
