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February, 1905. ] Annual Report. 
during the year to the expense of a in the distribution 
of the Catalogue being met from the grant. 
Owing to the illness of the clerk oe sar be months of the 
year a number of index slips were left o these after being 
| Bred by the experts will be despateied shely, The number 
71. 
of slips sent to seat was 
Mr. W. D. Wri was appointed Clerk attached to the Regi- 
onal Bureau of ‘the Royal Society in the place of Mr. J. B. Richard- 
son, resigned. 
Elliott Prize for Scientific Research. 
A sum of Rs. 1,000 out of the accumulated interest on account 
of the Elliott Prize Fund in the hands of the Accountant General 
of engal has been invested in 34 per cent. Government securities ; 
and the Council has decided to reserve the power to make use 
of this investment, if required by the Trustees, in awarding the 
prize. 
Barclay Memorial Medal. 
n connection with the Barclay Memorial Medal, the following 
gentlemen were appointed to form a special Committee to make 
the award during 1905—Captain L. Rogers, I.M.S., the Natural 
istory Secretary; Mr. N. Annandale, Captain A. 2 Gage, 
IMs, Mr. H. H. Hayden, and Major F. J. Drury, IM. 
The Society’s Premises and Property. 
he Council met several times to consider a letter from the 
Secretary to the Trustees of the Victoria Memorial, suggesting 
the loan of certain portraits and other objects of interest to the 
ictoria Memorial Hall, and, on the matter being referred to the 
general body of members, under rule 64A, it has been decided ° 
to lend certain specified objects for exhibition in the Victoria 
oo al Hall, namely, the following portraits and other 
ects :— 
Two portraits of the ey s founder Sir William Jones 
(one of him asa youth and the other in middle age) 
(Nos. 67 and 41); 
the portrait of Warren Hastings (No. 65) ; . 
the bust of James Prinsep (No. 19) ; 
a Ms.-of the Gulistan (No. 114 
a Ms. of the Badshah-nama (No. oT ; 
three old copper-plate inscriptions (No. 126, found 
cee : No. 135, found in the Sambalpur district ; 
d No. 136, found at Angasi) ; 
a nis edict of King Agoka (No. 25) ; 
at 
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