xii Annual Report. (February, 1911. 
veyed, as instructed, the Society's promise to conduct the 
Regional Bureau for India and Ceylon, and our Indian Govern- 
ment’s promise to maintain the Bureau. 
Many matters were discussed at the Convention and may 
be read of inits report; but among them was one of outstanding 
importance, namely, the increasing difficulty of getting together 
the titles of all published scientific papers because of the obscure 
places in which so many are published. It behoves authors 
who publish scientific papers in India and Ceylon to help the 
Regional Burean in this difficulty by sending to it copies of 
their papers that they may be indexed by the staff, unless 
they have been printed in one of the Journals named. below. 
Those who consult the Catalogue may have noticed how 
greatly the size of some volumes in 1907 and 1908 increased : 
this was owing to the inclusion of omissa from the preceding 
years picked up by the Bureau as it becomes more perfectly 
organized. 
The Regional Bureau for India and Ceylon sent 2770 index 
slips to the Central Bureau in the year under review. This is a 
slight increase on the number sent in the preceding year. Its 
upkeep cost Rs. 610-7-6. £279 15s. 10d. were sent to London 
at a cost of Rs. 4,164-5-6, being subscriptions collected for 
ae Three hundred and fifty nine volumes were distri- 
The following gentlemen helped the Bureau by checking 
the index slips :— 
Dr. N. Annandale, Mr. H. Maxwell-Lefroy. 
Mr. I. H. Burkill. Capt. D. McCay. 
. Cotte . 
Prof. E. P. Harrison. Mr. G. H. Tipper. 
Mr. D. Hooper. Mr. E. Vredenburg. 
The following is a list of scientific periodicals published in 
India and Ceylon which the Regional Bureau will always y 
index in the first place. Authors publishing in them may rest 
assured that the titles of their papers will be forwarded without 
delay to the Central Bureau. Authors publishing elsewhere 
are hen to submit reprints in order to call attention to their 
work. 
Societies. 
Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 
Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 
Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 
Official, —M eteorology. 
aareend Summary of the Indian Weather Review. 
ndian Meteorological Memoirs, Calcutta. 
