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ceedings have been carried on by Captain Waterhouse during the year, with 

 the exception of the months of October, November, and December, when 

 Mr. Blochmann acted as General Secretary during his absence. 



The Office of Treasurer and Oeneral Secretary has been held by Colonel 

 J. E. G-astrell and, during his absence, by Captain J. Waterhouse and Mr. 

 Blochmann. 



BlBLIOTHECA INDICA. 



The progress made in the publication of Oriental works in the Bihliotheca 

 Indica has on the whole been satisfactory. The rapid issue of fasciculi 

 during 1872 and 1873 necessitated a decrease for 1874, especially in the 

 Persian Series. The issue, during those years, of indexes to several Histori- 

 cal works and the completion of several editions that had heen commenced 

 many years ago, absorbed the greater portion of the annual allowance for 1874, 

 so that in the latter half of last year all printing had to be stopped. In 1875, 

 the issue of fasciculi will proceed as usually. Notwithstanding the tempo- 

 rary stoppage during last year, there were published thirteen fasciculi, viz. 

 four in the Persian, and 9 in the Sanskrit series. The four Persian fasciculi 

 include two numbers (Nos. III. and IV.) of Major Gr. H. Raverty's transla- 

 tion of the Tahaqdt i Naqiri ; and among the Sanskrit numbers there is one 

 fasciculus in Hindi. 



Maulawi Zulfaqar 'Ali edited two fasciculi (Nos. X and XI.) of the 

 Farliang i Hashidt ; but as he left Calcutta in June last, the remaining 

 portion of the work was entrusted to Maulawi 'Aziz urrahman, of the 

 Presidency College, who will complete the edition during the present 

 year. 



Owing to press of official and other work, Mr. Beames was obliged, 

 the Council regret to state, temporarily to stop the printing of the first 

 portion of Chand's poems, which he had undertaken. The second portion of 

 the poems from Canto XXII. was taken in hand by the Rev. Dr. A. F. R. 

 Hoernle, but soon after the publication of one fasciculus he was under the 

 necessity of proceeding home. Dr. Hoernle is using his stay in Europe to 

 collate several MSS. of Chand, and is expected to return to India in another 

 year when he will resume his labours. 



Of the works in the Sanskrit Series, the Chhanda Sutra has been com- 

 pleted. It is the oldest treatise extant on Sanskrit versification, and it has 

 been very carefully edited and explained in elaborate foot notes by the 

 editor. The other works are all in a forward state, and the Council expect 

 that most of them will be completed in the course of the present year. Dr. 

 Eggeling's edition of the Katantra, which is being printed in England for 

 the Society, is nearly ready for issue. 



