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ting Rai Bahadur Sarat Chandra Das, an associate member, to take out 

 books, &c., from the Society's Library as allowed to a full member, he 

 was informed that the Council found that they could not under the 

 rules continue to permit him to take out books unless he became an 

 Ordinary Member. 



Ajpril 29th, Ordinary Meeting. 



A letter from the Secretary, Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee 

 of the K/oyal Society, and Royal Astronomical Society, London, con- 

 veying their thanks to the Society for the valuable information con- 

 tained in the Meteorological Note and copies of Correspondence on the 

 subject of the Total Eclipse of the Sun of January, 3898, was recorded. 



Dr. D. Prain being unable to accept a seat on the Council, it was 

 approved, at the President's proposal, to ask the Hon. Mr. H, H. Risley 

 to join the Council. 



A letter from the Assistant Secretary, Government of India, Home 

 Department, stating that the Governor-General in Council was pleased, 

 to withdraw the conditions imposed in Home letter No. 448 of the 9th 

 September, 1882, under which copies of parliamentary papers and returns 

 relating to India were at present supplied to the Asiatic Society of 

 Bengal and to regard the past Blue Books as the property of the 

 Society, was recorded. 



250 copies of the Descriptive Catalogue of the Paintings, &c., in 

 the Society's Rooms were ordered to be printed. 



On the recommendation of the President, a copy of William 

 Ramsay's Gases of the Atmosphere, the History of their Discovery, 

 was ordered to be purchased for the Society's Library. 



The purchase of a copy of the Interchangeable Index book and 500 

 slips, for numismatic purposes, was recorded. 



On the recommendation of the Anthropological Secretary, a copy 

 of Hamilton's Art and Workmanship of the Maori Race in New 

 Zealand, was ordered, to be purchased for tiie Society's Library. 



May, 2*7 th. Ordinary Meeting. 



It was agreed to purchase the manuscript of " Diwani Buba 

 Fughani of Shiraz," and a work entitled " Miratul Tarikh " from 

 Munshi Jwala Nath Pandit of Calcutta for the Society's Library. 



The acceptance by the Hon'ble Mr. H. H. Risley of a seat on the 

 Council of the Society was recorded. 



The resignation of Colonel J. Waterhouse of the offices of Vice- 

 President and Member of Council of the Society was recorded. 



Read a letter from the Chief Secretary to the Government pf 



