viii Annual Report. [February, 1916. 



has agreed to take over the work now done by the office of the 

 Director of Public Instruction, Bengal, in connection with the 



award of the Elliott Prize. 



Finance. 



The appendix contains the usual statements showing the 

 accounts of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for the year 1915. 



Statement No. I contains receipts and expenditure. 



Statements Nos. II and III show how the money of Orien- 

 tal Publication Funds Nos. 1 and 2 has been spent. These 

 funds of Rs. 9,000 and Rs. 3,000 respectively are adminis- 

 tered by the Society for the Government of Bengal. 



In Statement No. IV will be seen the amount spent during 

 the year from the special grant given by the Government of 

 Bengal for printing an English translation of the Akbarnama. 



Statement No. V shows how the yearly grant of Rs. 3,200 

 from the Government of Bengal towards the Sanskrit MSS. 

 Fund has been used. 



Statement No. VI shows how the Government of India's 

 grant of Rs. 5,000 for the Arabic and Persian MSS. Fund has 

 been used. 



In Statement No. VII is shown the money spent in con- 

 nection with the work of the proposed Bardic and Historical 

 Survey of Rajputana, including Dr. Tessitori's salary of 

 Rs. 6,000 granted by the Government of India. 



Statement No. VIII shows how we have used the grants 

 for the purchase of anthropological books and the publication 



of anthropological papers. 



Statement No. IX refers solely to the salary of the officer 

 in charge of the Bureau of Information. 



Statement No. X shows the state of the Barclay Memorial 



Fund . 



Statement No. XI gives an account of amounts due to and 

 from the Society for subscriptions, books, manuscripts and 



contingent expenses. 



Statement No. XII contains an account of the Society's 

 investments in Government Securities which are held in deposit 

 by the Bank of Bengal. We hold 3J % Government Promissory 

 Notes of the face value of Rs. 2,48,700. They cost Rs. 2,45,564, 

 the average purchase price being Rs. 98-12. The market price 

 at the time of writing this report is nominally Rs. 79-8. 

 Besides the above we have invested Rs. 10,100 in 4% Govern- 

 ment Terminable Loan of 1915-16 at par. In addition we have 

 3|% Government Promissory Notes of the face value of Rs. 500. 

 belonging to the Barclay Memorial Fund. 



Statement No. XIII shows the sums invested in Govern- 

 ment Promissory Notes known as the Trust Fund, the interest 

 of which is applied to the payment of pensions to old servants of 

 the Society. 



