1889.] Annual Report. 43 



On an enquiry from the Government of India, Home Department, 

 whether the literary qualifications of Monsieur S. Levie, of the School 

 of High Studies at the Sorbonne, Paris, were such as to entitle him to 

 be j)laced on the list of Savants to whom copies of the Catalogues of 

 Sanskrit Manuscripts are sent, a reference was made to the French 

 Consul at Calcutta. 



In reply to a letter from the Engineer to the Calcutta Corporation 

 stating that the water channels across the new entrances to the Society's 

 premises could not be improved without altering the levels of the road- 

 side channels, and building at least one new gully pit, at a cost of Rs. 

 60, which the Society would be called upon to pay, he was asked whether 

 the ordinary iron gateway tubes could not be supplied at the Society's 

 expense. 



The Literary and Historical Society of Quebec having expressed a 

 wish, through the Government of India, to exchange publications with 

 Societies in India, a number of each part of the Journal was sent, and 

 specimen copies of their publications asked for in return, to decide 

 whether an exchange should be made. 



An exchange of publications (Journal, Part II) with the Entomo- 

 logical State Museum, Stockholm, was sanctioned. 



Permission was accorded to the Theosophical Publication Fund 

 Society of Bombay to reprint the English translation of 12 Upanishads 

 originally published in the Bibliotheca Indica series, which had been out 

 of print for some years. 



The Baptist Mission Press was authorised to make an extra charge 

 of one anna per page for " doing up " Tibetan works, in addition to the 

 rate of Rs. 3-8 per page for printing previously sanctioned. 



On the recommendation of the President a visiting Committee was 

 formed, consisting of the officers and one or two members of Council, to 

 meet whenever necessary for the inspection of the Office, Library, 

 Stock, &c. 



It was decided that there was no necessity to revive the election of 

 Corresponding Members at present. 



An offer from Professor Duncan to undertake the determination 

 and description of the collection of the Ophinroidea and Echiuoidea, 

 recently dredged up on board the " Investigator," was accepted. 



Authority was given to Mr. V. A. Smith to use the negatives of 

 the plates attached to his paper on Gupta gold coins published in the 

 Journal, Part I, for 1884, and to reprint so much of the text as might 

 be necessary in preparing a comprehensive Monograph of all the Gupta 

 coins, on which he was engaged. 



The Baptist Mission Press was directed to revert to the use of 

 blue paper for the cover of the Society's Proceedings. 



