February, 1907.] A^ziiual Heport. 



XI 



Society's Premises and Property. 



Messrs. Mackintosh Bum & Co. liave substituted steel joists 

 for all the wooden beams on the ground floor. Tlie proposed 

 thorough repairs and structural improvements in the building 

 have been postponed for the present, but repairs to cracks in the. 

 walls of the main building caused bj changing the beams, and 

 removing earthen roof-spouts and substituting iron pipes have 

 been sanctioned. 



At the request of the Calcutta Corporation, certain altera- 

 tions, in connection with re-modelling the outside latrine arrange- 

 ments for the menial servants, have been cai-i-ied out. 



In order to make the Society's General Meetings more in- 

 teresting, a lantern has been purchased which will be woiked bv 



electricity. 



Exchange of Publications. 



During 1906 the Council accepted thirteen applications for 

 exchange of publications, viz : — (1) From the Australian Museum, 

 Sydney, the Society's Journal and Proceeding!? and Memoirs in 



exchnnge of their Records. 



Journal 



Tropical Veterinary Science, Lahore, the Society's Journal nnd 

 Proceedings and Memoirs for his Journal. i3) From the Director 

 of " Anthropos," (Modling, Austria), the Society *s Jourfial and 

 Proceedings and Memoirs for his Periodicnl. (4) From the Missouri 

 Botanical Gardens, St. Louis, the Society's Journal and Proceediiiys 

 for their Reports. (5) From the Editor of '' Dr. A. Petermann's 

 Geographische Mitheilungen," (Gotha), the Society's Jottn^aZ and 

 Proceedings and Memoirs for his Periodical. (6) From the Faraday 

 Society, London, the Society's Joiiriial and Proceedings \n\d Memoirs 

 for their Transactions. (7) From the Universitats-Bibliothek in 

 Basel, the Society's Journal and Proceedings ^ud Memoirs for their 

 Verhandlungen. (8) From l5cole Speciale des Langnes Orientales 

 vivantes, Paris, the Society's Journal and Proceedings and Memoirs 

 iov the publication of their School. (9) From the ilining and 

 Geological Institute of India, the Society's Jonrnal and Proceedingg 

 and Memoirs for their Transactions. (10) From the Queen's 

 College, Belfast, the Society's Jaiirwa? and Proceedings nnd Memoirs 

 for the publications of their College. (11) From the United States 

 National Museum, Washington, the Society's Journal *au(\ Proceed- 

 inoH and Memoirs for the publication of the Museum. (12) From 



Wi 



Memoi 



ten. (13) From the Univei^sity of California, the Society's Journal 



an 



d Proceedings and Memoi 



sity. 



Publications. 



There were published during the year tliirtpon numbers of 

 the Journal and Proceedings (Journal and Proceedings Nos. 9 to 10 

 and Extra Number of 1905 and Journal and Proceedings Nos. 1 to 10 

 1906) containing 1,100 pages and 11 plates. 



