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* Sydney : — Linnsean Society of New South Wales. 



* Tokyo : — Imperial University^of Japan. 



* Toronto : — Canadian Institute. 



* Trieste : — Societa Adriatica di Scienze Naturali. 



* Turin : — Reale^AccadeniiajIelle Scienze. 

 t Ulwar : — Ulwar Library. 



* Vienna : — Antliropologische Gesellschaft. 

 — K. K. Akademie der Wissenschaften. 



— K. K. Central-anstalt fur Meteorologie und Erdmagnetismus 

 — K. K. Geologische Reichsanstalt. 

 — K. K. Zoologisck-Botaniscke Gesellschaft. 

 — K. K. Naturhistorichen Hof-Museum. 



* Washington : — Commissioners of the Department of Agriculture. 



* — : — Smithsonian Institution, 



§ : — U. S. Army Signal Service. 



* : — United States Geological Survey. 



§ :— IT. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. 



* Wellington : — New Zealand Institute. 



* Wiirttemberg : — Natural History Society. 



* Yokohama : — Asiatic Society of Japan. 



* : — Deutschen Gesellschaft fiir Natur-und Volkerkunde 



Ostasiens. 



* Zagreb : — Arkeologickoga Druztva. 



Abstract op Proceedings op Council during 1888. 

 January 26th, Ordinary Meeting. 



A copy of the Orientalische Bibliographic, a new publication in place 

 of the Literature Blat fiir Orientalische Philologie, the publication of 

 which has been discontinued, was subscribed for. 



An offer from Professor Cowell to revise the translation of the 

 Muntalchab-ut-Taivdrikh was accepted, and he was authorised to postpone 

 the translation of Khafi Khan. 



Read a letter from Mr. F. E. Pargiter stating that he will be happy 

 to complete the translation of the MdrJcandeya Purdna without notes, 

 but will add such notes as may suggest themselves in the course of the 

 work. 



The Government of Bengal was informed, in reply to an enquiry 



made by the Government of India whether the entire cost of purchasing 



a complete set of the Tangyur from Tibet could not be met from the 



Government grants made to the Society, that the charge for ihc purchase 



could only be met from the Oriental Publication Fund, and that in the 



