34 Annual Beport. [Feb. 



Messrs. Mackintosh, Burn and Co.'s approximate estimate of 

 Rs. 5,340-8-6 being cost of repairing damage caused by tbe earthquake 

 to the Society's buildings was accepted, and they were asked if the 

 skylight over staircase could be altered and to submit plans for altering 

 the same. 



Mr. Charles Saunders was elected a Member of the Society. 



On a note by the President on the subject of the draft Rules under 

 which persons other than Members of the Society may be permitted to 

 consult books and manuscripts in the Society's Library, Rai Surat 

 Chandra Das was informed that tlie Council were willing to favourably 

 consider his request to work in the Asiatic Society's Library, but that 

 he must first return to the Library all the books and manuscripts 

 in his possession belonging to the Library, so that the matter may be 

 disposed of at the next Council Meeting. 



Certain books were purchased for the Society's Library. 



September 2Srd, Ordinary Meeting, 



A letter from Rai Bahadur Sarat Chandra Das stating that he 

 will settle the question of books and manuscripts out with him when 

 he returned to Calcutta in December next, was recorded. 



Pandit Satyavrata Samacrami was supplied at his request with 

 notices of Sanskrit manuscripts from Vols. I to X, Part I. 



Babu Sarat Chandra Mitra was elected an Ordinary Member of the 

 Society. 



A letter from the President on the subject of Archaeological ex- 

 ploration in the Nepal Terai, was recorded. 



A copy of Abel-Remusat's History of Khoten (in French) was 

 ordered for the Society's Library. 



The selling price of Mr. Wilson's Descriptive Catalogue of the 

 Paintings, Statues, framed Prints, Copper-plates, &c., in the rooms of the 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal was fixed at Re. 1 per copy. 



October 28th, Ordinary Meeting. 



On an application from the Meteorological Reporter to the Govern- 

 ment of India, an exchange of the Society's Proceedings and Journal^ 

 Part II for the publication of the Meteorological Department was 

 sanctioned. It was ordered to send them the back numbers as far as 

 could be managed. 



The thanks of the Council were conveyed to Dr. Grierson for his 

 brief account of the Proceedings of the International Congress of 

 Orientalists held at Paris in last September, and he was informed that 

 his report would be laid before next General Meeting and printed in 

 the Proceedinus. 



