February, 1!)17.| Annual Report. v, 



the State Council of Bikaner, through the Resident of th« 

 Western Rajputana States, Jodhpur. 



The Council, acting on the suggestion of Lieut. -CoL Sir 

 Leonard Rogers. Kt. T has approved the transfer of all Medical 



Journals to the library of the School of Tropical Medicine, on 

 the understanding that all expenditure incurred by the So- 

 ciety, on the purchase or binding of these works, shall be 

 refunded. The amount recovered from this source will be spent 

 on completing other scientific serials in the Society's library. 



The form of indemnity bond to be used in connection with 



the loan of manuscripts, drawn up by Mr. H. C. Kesteven, has 

 been approved by the Council. New rules have been p. sed 

 regarding the lending out of Government manuscripts. 



The manuscript of the Catalogue of Scientific Serial Publi- 

 cations available in Calcutta is almost ready, but no part has 

 yet been sent to press owing to lack of funds 



The Society's library is open to members daily from 10 a.m. 

 to .1 p.m. and on Wednesdays, until 7-30 p.m. 



Publications. 



Nine numbers of the Journal and Proceedings (Vol. XI, 

 Xos. 7-11 and Vol. XII, Nos. 1-ft) were published during the 

 year, contain Ing 776 pages and 18 plates. 



Four numbers of the Memoirs were published (Vol. IV, 

 Xo. 2; Vol. V, No. 4; Vol. V, Extra No., pages 93-113; and 

 Vol. VI, pages 1-74). containing 3(H) pages and 4 plates. 



Manuscripts of the Indexes to the Journal and Proceedings 

 (Vol. VIII, 1912 and Vol. IX, 1913) are nearly ready for press 

 and it is hoped that they will be published at an early date. 



In order to expedite the publication of papers in the 

 Journal, the Council has resolved to publish a feu- separate 

 copies of each paper as soon as it is ready, instead of waiting 

 till sufficient matter for a full number is in hand. The Proceed- 

 ings are now being published in larger batches at longer inter- 

 vals, and the practice of identifying the various numbers of 

 the Journal with the months of the Proceedings published with 

 them, having proved misleading and inconvenient, has been 

 abandoned. 



A revised edition of the Society's Rules and Regulations 

 has been published. 



Exchange of Publications. 



During the year, the Council accepted three applications 

 for exchange of publications, viz. (1) from the Ohio State Uni- 

 versity, Columbus; the Society's Journal and Proceedings and 

 the Memoirs to be exchanged for their periodical "The Ohio 

 Journal of Science"; (2) from the Bihar and Orissa Research 

 Society ; the Society *s Journal and Proceedings and the Memoirs 



