cxiv Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [November, 
The Chairman announced that the Council ne appointed 
Mr. G. H. Tipper asa a of Council and General Secretary 
in the place of Mr. T, H. D. La Touche, proceeded on tour, and 
D. Hooper as Tieaanee in the place of Mr. J. A. Chapman, 
resigne ed, 
The Chairman laid on the table the following :— 
. A report by Dr. G. A. Grierson on the Linguistic Survey 
of India presented by him to the Fifteenth International Congress 
of Orientalists held at Copenhagen on 14th to 20th August 1908. 
The Linguistic Survey of India has made satisfactory progress 
since I had the honour of submitting a report to the Fourteenth 
International Congress of Orientalists. I laid eee that Cahetees 
our sections of the work, viz, :— 
Vol. II. Mon-Khmer and Tai fam 
Vol. ILI. Part III. Kuki-Chin med Burma Groups of 
the Tibeto-Burman family. 
Vol. VY. Parti. Bengali and Assamese; and Part II. 
Bihari and Oriya 
The following is the proposed list of volumes of the Sur- 
vey :— 
Vol. I. Introductory. 
Vol. II. Mén-Khmér and Tai families. 
Vol. I. Part I. Tibeto-Burman languages of the 
Himalaya and North Assam 
Part II. Bodo, Naga, and Kachin Groups of 
the Tibeto-Burman languages 
Part (If. Kuki-Chin and Burma Groups of 
Vol V. Indo-Aryan languages, Eastern Group 
Part I. Bengali and As 
re . Bihari and Oriya. 
Vol Mi patty cee oe mediate group (Kast- 
ern H 
Vol. VIL. eer: languages, Southern group 
(Marathi). 
Vol. VIII. Indo-Aryan languages, North-Western group 
(Sindhi, Lahnda, Kashmiri, and the 
‘* Pisaca ” languages), 
Vol. IX. Indo-Aryan Aneue.stenci Central group. 
Part I. Western Hindi and Faaeh 
rtIV. Himalayan languages. 
Ve. ek. enste family. 
oe a XI, “Gipsy” languages and supplement. 
t has been found necessary to divide Vol. IX into four 
ranted of three iets cect, owing tothe fact that to have included the 
