February, 1918.] Annual Report. v 
Indian Museum, 
No presentations were made to the Indian Museum. 
During the year there has been no change in the Society’s 
Trusteeship, the Hon’ble Justice Sir Asutosh Mukhopadhyaya, 
Kt., C.8.1., D.Sc., F.R.A.S., F.RB.S.E., continuing to be a mem- 
ber of the Board of Trustees on behalf of the Society under the 
Indian Museum Act X of 1910. 
e Trustees presented through the Government of India, 
a sum of Rs. 2,500 to enable the Society to publish the Cata- 
logue of Scientific Serial Publications available in Calcutta, 
recently compiled by Mr. S. W. Kemp. 
Indian Science Congress. 
The Fourth Indian Science Congress was held in Bangalore 
on January 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th, 1917, under the presidency 
of Sir Alfred Bourne, K.C.1.E., D.Sc., F.R.S. The meetings were 
attended by about 270 members, and some 70 papers were com- 
municated, abstracts of which have been published in our Pro- 
ceedings, Vol. XIII, 1917, pages cxli-ccix. 
was arranged that the Fifth Indian Science Congress 
Meetings. 
The Society’s General Meetings have been held regularly 
very month with the exception of the recess month of Septem- 
t. Under Council Order, the meeting for the recess month 
of October was held on Wednesday, the 3rd October 1917-at 
5-30 P.m., instead of at 9-15 P.M. 
Lecture, 
_ Dr. A. H. Meerwarth of the Academy of Science, Petrograd, 
delivered a popular lecture on “ Bhasa and his Dramas” in 
the Society’s rooms on the 6th July, 1917. This was the only 
lecture delivered during the year. 
Agencies, 
_ _ Mr. Bernard Quaritch has continued as the Society’s Agent 
in Europe. 
