February, 1905. | Annual Report. 
during the year to the expense of postage in the distribution 
of the Catalogue being met from the grant. 
Owing to the illness of the clerk during three months of the 
year a number of index slips were left over; these after bemg 
checked by the experts will be despatched shortly. The number 
of slips sent to London was 71. 
Mr. W. D. Wright was appointed Clerk attached to the Regi- 
onal Bureau of the Royal eae 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 Bengal has been invested in 35 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. 
In 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.S8., the Natural 
History Secretary; Mr. N. Annandale, Captain A. T. Gage, 
IM.LS., Mr. A. H. Hayden, and Major F. J. Drury, I.M.S. 
The Society’s Premises and Property. 
The 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 
Victoria 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 
Memorial Hall, namely, the following portraits and ° other 
objects :— 
Two portraits of the Society’s founder Sir Wilham 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) ; 
the old cannon of Mir Jumlu (No. 2) ; 
a Ms. of the Gulistan (No. 114) ; 
a Ms. of the Badshah-nama (No. 118) ; 
three old copper-plate _inscriptions (No. 126, found at 
Amgachi ; No. 135, found in the Sambalpur district ; 
and No, 136, found at Angasi) ; 
a stone edict of King Asoka (No. 25) ; 
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