22 Annual Report* [Feb, 



London Agency. 



The number of copies of parts of tlie Journal, of the Proceedings, and 

 of the Bihliotheca Indica, sent to Messrs. Luzac and Co., during the year 

 1897, for sale, were 715, 317, and 739, valued at £98-5-0 and £12-1-9, 

 and E/S. 516 respectively. Other, books were sent for sale amounting 

 to £1-10-0. 



Twelve invoices of books purchased and of publications of various 

 Societies sent in exchange, were received during the year. The value 

 of the books purchased amounted to £55-19-11. 



Continental Agency. 

 The number of copies of parts of the Journal, of the Proceedings and 

 of the Bihliotheca Indica sent to Mr. Otto Harrassowitz, the Society's 

 Continental Agent, during 1897, for sale, were 40, 59 and 511 valued 

 at £6-15-0, £2-18-0 and Rs. 295, respectively. Other books were sent 

 for sale amounting to Rs. 13. 



Library. 



The total number of volumes, or parts of volumes added to the 

 Library during the year was 2,713, of which 1,087 were purchased 

 and 1,626 presented or received in exchange for the Society's publica- 

 tions. 



In the report for 1894, it] was stated that the books were being 

 checked with the present catalogue. This work has been accomplished. 

 The slips are now being arranged and it is hoped before the close 

 of the year the new edition of the Society's Library Catalogue will 

 be published. 



Publications. 



There were published during the year twelve numbers of the 

 ''Proceedings'' (Nos. 7, 9 and 10 of 1896, and JSTos. 1-9 of 1897), contain- 

 ing 239 pages of letter-press and 2 plates ; six numbers of the " Journal," 

 Parti (Nos. 3 and 4 of 1896, and Nos. 1-4 of 1897), containing 523 

 pages of letter-press and 51 plates ; an Extra N'o. 3 of 1892 consisting of 

 121 pages of letter-press and 7 plates, being the completion of Major 

 H. G-. Raverty's Mihran of Sind and its Tributaries ; also another Extra 

 No. of 1897 consisting of 74 pages of letter-press, being Shaw's 

 History of the Khojas of Eastern-Turkistan summarised from the Tazhira- 

 i-Khwajagan of Muhammad Sadiq Kashghari, edited with Introduction 

 and Notes by N. Elias ; four numbers of the " Journal," Part II (No. 4 of 

 3896 and Nos. 1-3 of 1897) containing 634 pages of letter-press and 5 

 plates ; a Special No., Part III for 1896, containing 113 pages of 

 letter- press, being the Rev. M. A, Sherring's Index to Hindu Tribes and 



