46 Annual Report. [Feb. 



An exchange of Part II of the Journal was sanctioned -with the 

 following Societies : Entomological Society " Iris," Dresden, Gesell- 

 schaft des Naturforschenden Freunde, Berlin. 



The Baptist Mission Press agreed to supply, without extra charge, 

 paper weighing 20Ibs. to the ream for printing the Bibliotheca Indica 

 publications. 



The following estimates were sanctioned : 



For renewing beams and burgahs, &c, on the ground floor and general 

 repairs to the building, Rs. 3,855-8. 



For thorough repairs to the out offices, Rs. 343-10-6. 



For putting wire netting to the windows of some of the rooms on 

 the ground floor, fitting brass bolts with hasps to all the windows and 

 supplying padlocks, Rs. 172-8. 



September 27 th, Ordinary Meeting. 



The subscription of ten guineas to the Pali Text Society was 

 sanctioned for a further period of six years, but a proposal from the 

 Secretary to the Society to exchange advertisements with the Royal 

 Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland was declined, 



A letter was read from the Societe d' Anthropologic, Paris, intimat- 

 ing that the Society had been assigned a place in the Exposition of the 

 Minister of Public Instruction in 1889 and asking all persons who de- 

 sire to take a part therein to communicate with the Committee of Orga- 

 nisation. 



An application from Dr. L. G. Wirth, of Alexandria, to be admitted 

 a Member of the Society without paying any fee was declined. 



A letter from the Government of the N -W. P. and Oudh offering 

 46 photographic plates of Archa3ological remains in the Jhansi district 

 on condition of receiving two copies of each photograph struck off, was 

 referred to the Trustees of the Indian Museum. 



The Collector of Hooghly was authorized to have a copy made of 

 an old Dutch plan of Hooghly from a book in the Society's Library. 



The Geographical Society of Paris was furnished with the names 

 of certain persons in India to whom invitations might be sent to attend 

 the Geographical Congress to be held at Paris in 1889. 



An offer from the Microscopical Society of Calcutta of an Honorary 

 Membership in that Society to the President of the Asiatic Society of 

 Bengal was accepted. 



An additional expenditure of Rs. 39 for half terracing the roof of 

 one of the godowns, for which no provision had been made in the esti- 

 mate, was sanctioned. 



