26 Annual Report. [Feb. 



11. Taittiriya Samhita, the Samhita of the Black-Yajur Veda was 

 undertaken in the year 1860. It changed hands several times and is 

 now under the editorship of Pandit Satyavarta Sania9rami. The Text 

 atid the Commentary have been completed. The indices yet remain to 

 be done. 



12. Tattva Cintamani, the Standard work of the Naiyayikas of 

 tlie Bengal School has advanced by three fasiculi, namely, Part IV, 

 Vol. I, Fasc. V, and Part IV, Vol. II, Fascs. I and II. 



13. Ttdsz Satsaz, edited with a short Commentary by Pandit 

 Viharilal Chaube has been completed with a table of contents and a 

 Hindi preface, Fasc. V. 



(C) Tibetan Series. 



1. Two fasciculi of the Sher Phyin or the Tibetan translation of 

 the patasahasrika Prajnaparamita has been published by Babu Pratapa 

 Candra Ghosa being fasciculi III and IV of the third volume. 



2. The Avadana-Kalpalata with its Tibetan translation under the 

 joint editorship of Ray f arat Candra Das, C. I. E., and Pandit Hari- 

 mohan Vidyabhusana has advanced by one fasciculus only, namely, Vol. 

 II, Fasc. V. ' 



Abstract of Proceedings of Council during 1897. 

 January 29(;h, Ordinary Meeting. 



Permission was granted to the Manager, Indian Art College^ 

 Calcutta, to print and publish selected papers from the ^^ Asiatic 

 Researches " which were now out of print, and they were asked to pre- 

 sent two copies to the Library of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 



On an application from the Librarian, Berlin Anthropological 

 Society, an offer was made of the Society's Proceedings and Journal^ 

 Parts I and III, in exchange for their " Verhandlungen." 



On the representation of the Master, Her Majesty's Mint, Calcutta, 

 it was ordered that the original die of the Barclay Memorial Medal 

 should be hardened and polished. If it cracked, the Society was willing 

 to bear the cost of Rs. 100 for a new die. 



The application from Maulvie Mirza Ashraf Ali, soliciting per- 

 mission to prepare Indexes to Vols. I-III of the Isabah, was referred 

 to the Philological Committee. 



A letter from the Honorary Secretary, Buddhist Text Society, 

 proposing the affiliation of the Buddhist Text Society, with the Asiatic 

 Society of Bengal, together with a memorandum by Dr. Hoernle suggest- 

 ing a scheme, were ordered to be circulated to the Members of Council. 



The Budget of the expenses of the Bibliotheca Indica, drawn up -,by 

 the Philological Committee for the year 1897, was approved. 



