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Mr, Kiichler was also elected a Trustee in the place of Mr. Little 

 resigned. 



On the recommendation of the Council, the meeting day was 

 changed to Friday instead of Thursday. 



Copies of Boulger's Central Asian Question, Hellwald's Russians 

 in Central Asia, and Bonvalot's Through the Heart of Asia, were 

 purchased for the Society's Library. 



At the suggestion of the Secretary, the two Travelling Pandits in 

 search of Sanskrit Manuscripts were allowed travelling allowance as per 

 Travelling Allowance Code and not double Intermediate Railway 

 fare. 



The Report having been read, the President invited its acceptance. 



Mr. R. D. Mehta proposed and Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad 

 pastri seconded that the Report be approved. 



Mr. C. Little proposed as an amendment " but that the Council 

 arrange during the coming year to prevent expenditure on the Journals 

 exceeding the amount allowed by the Society in the estimates and 

 report at the next annual meeting." 



Mr. F. J. Rowe seconded the amendment, which was carried by a 

 majority of one (eleven against ten). 



The President then announced that the Trustees of the " Elliott 

 Prize for Scientific Research " had awarded the prize for the year 1897 

 to Babu Sarasi Lai Sarkar, and laid on the table the following 



Report on the "Elliott Prize for Scientific Research" for 1897, 



The Trustees have received Essays from the following competitors 

 for the prize : — 



1. " ^n Investigation of the Properties of Numbers: and on Some 

 Propositions relating to the Theories of Congruences and of Quadratic 

 Residues.'" — By Sarasi Lkh Sarkar, M.A. 



2. The Theory of the Half -tone dot. — By Upendrakisor Koy Chow- 

 DHURY, B.A. 



3. Stylography of the English Language. — By Brojonath Shah a, 

 L.M.S. 



4. An improvement of the New Method of solving Quartics by 

 Radicals, published in the Calcutta University Magazine, June, 1896. — By 

 Nripendra Nath Chatterji. 



5. Bhuvanesa Yantra Prakas, — By Lal Trilokinath Singh. 



