xii Annual Report. [February, 1909. 
Regional Bureau for the Royal Society’s International 
atalogue of Scientific Literature. 
The Bureau was maintained during the year at a cost of :— 
1d. We 
Staff <i es 461 13 0 
Postage, freight, etc. ead bc OayS 
Stationery, etc. 2 Mano Coe BD 
TOTAL «o> O24. 10:.6 
at the expense of the Government of India. 
Two thousand one hundred and forty-seven index slips were 
prepared and sent to the Central Bureau, 227 volumes dis- 
tributed, and subscriptions to the amount of £230-8-5 collected 
and remitted to London. A nearly equal sum is ready to be 
remitted to London as soon as Exchange is favourable 
e slips were prepared, in chief part, by the Bureau’s 
clerk, and checked or corrected by one or other of the following 
gentlemen, most of them members of the Society, who have 
given freely their services :— 
Dr. N. Annandale. H. Maxwell-Lefroy, Esq. 
I. H. Burkill, Esq. B. B. Osmaston, Esq. 
Prof. J. A. Cunningham Capt. W. 8. Patton, I.M.S. 
Rev. Fr. E. Francotte, S.J C. W. Peake, Esq. 
Capt. A. T. Gage, I.M.S. Major L. Rogers, I.M.S 
D. Hooper, Es E. Thurston 
The output of the Bureau has i 
much has been done in adopting devi 
On the recommendation of the Trustees for the Elliott Prize 
for Scientific Research, the Elliott Gold Medal for the year 
1907, together with Rs. 109.7-8 in cash, was awarded to Babu 
aie ar of Mymensing, for his essay on 
Composition of Colours 
Elliott Gold Medal for the 
»” and no essays have been 
