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February, 1908.] Annual Report. 1x 
books and MSS., the Sanskrit Library has been separated from 
that of the Arabic and Persian, and the two libraries are now 
located in different rooms. 
Mr, J. cae Elliott. has continued Assistant Secretary through- 
out the yen 
abn Ritoairandl Kumar was appointed Librarian on Ist 
January, 1907. 
International Catalogue of Scientifie Literature. 
Work in the a Bureau during the past year has been 
uninterruptedly carried « is increasing as one would expect 
art pasxsu with the increase » of scientific staffs in India, and the 
increasing energy of scientific investigators. The Regional 
Bureau prep red and sent 1,189 index slips | to the Central Office in 
London ; this number of slips bas never been approached before. 
The 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 for this good work :— 
N. Annandale, Esq., D.Sc. 
I. H. Burkill, Es 
iJ. A: Cunningham. 
L. L. Fermor, lsq. 
Capt. J. W. D. Mevaw, I.M.S. 
H. Maxwell- meg sq. 
B. B. Osmaston, Esq. 
Capt. W. S. ese LM.S. 
C. W. Peake, Esq. 
Major L. Rogers, I.M.S. 
E. !hurston, Exq. 
G. H. Tipper, Esq. 
E Vr ae Ksq. 
Capt. F. W. Wall, I.M.S. 
The expenses of maintaining the bureau for the year have 
been :— 
Stati 
Staff 
ea, a freight, ete. 
sat 
Rs. = F. 
506 0 
220 i 10 
34° 05.9 
Total 2. 7002 2-0 
—_———_—_—_—_—_ 
hey were met - of the grants made by the Government 
i 
of - oe the pur 
g the Sie we a ae distributed in India for the Central 
Office no arin a 554 v ome: 
Sth annual issu 
subscribers, ree think it a ae 
the volumes went should, henceforward. be witho 
being parts of the 3:d, 4th and 
t the loss of two or three 
that the teaching centres whither 
ut these reference 
volumes. Moreover, the financial aid that the subesaptions meant 
to the undertaking was valuable. 
