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February, 1922. | Annual Report. CO, 7 
made, and no prize for 1921 will therefore be presented at the 
annual meeting of the Society in February 1922. 
The subject selected for the Elliott Prize for the year 
1922 is Mathematics. This notification will be published in the 
Calcutta Gazette in January 1922. 
Finance. 
The Appendix contains the usual statements showing the 
accounts for the year 1921. Statement No. 19 shows the 
Balance Sheet of the Society and of the different funds admin- 
istered through it. 
The credit balance at the close of the year is Rs. 2,14,171- 
0-4, against Rs. 2,04,902-6-5. Of this amount Rs. 1,71,600 be- 
longs to the Permanent Reserve, the working balance, exclu- 
sive of funds administered for Government, being Rs. 42,571 
as against Rs. 33,902 at the end of 1920. 
__ The Society has received the usual grants of Rs. 20,800 
and Rs. 5,000 from the Government of Bengal and India re- 
spectively :— 
From Government of Bengal— Rs. Vide Statement 
Anthropological Fund r¢ 2,000 MO, 3 
Bureau of Information a 1,200 ” 5 
Oriental Publication Fund No.1 —- 9,000 peed 
No. 2 3,000 Pee 
oO. oO. 
Sanskrit MSS. Fund for catalogu- 
ing and preservation of MSS... 5,600 gee 

TOTAL .. 20,800 

From Government of India— Rs. Vide Statement 
Arabic and Persian MSS. Fund.. 5,000 No. 12. 
Statement No. 13 contains an account of the Society's 
investments in Government Securities which are held in de- 
posit by the Imperial Bank of India. We hold 3}% Govern- 
ment Promissory Notes of the face value of Rs. 2,74,200 
They cost Rs. 2,73,206-3-10, the average purchase price being 
Rs. 96-1-6. The market price at the time of writing this 
report is nominally Rs. 59-4. We also hold 4% Government 
Terminable Loan of 1915-16 of Rs. 10,100 purchased at par. 
Statement No. 16 gives an account of the amount due to 
and from the Society by way of subscriptions, publications 
and contingent charges. a with 
In statement No. 17 is shown the sum reserved, 
