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Agencies. 



Our London Agency is still in the hands of Messrs. Lnzac & Co. 

 Owinof to the death of Mr. 0. G. Luzac and the unsettled condition of 

 the firm, we will probably have to change their London Agency. They 

 have submitted a statement of sales during 1902 and 1903. The value 

 of the publications sent to them during the year amounts to £75-4-6 re- 

 presenting 702 copies of the various issues of the Journal and the Pro- 

 ceedings, and Rs. 415-12-0 representing 723 fasciculi of the Bibliotheca 

 Indica. The proceeds of the sale of the Journal and the Proceedings 

 and of the Bibliotheca Indica during 1902 and 1903 were £17-16-6 

 and Rs. 53-14-0, respectively. From them we have received books and 

 papers of the value of £23-5-5. 



Our Continental Agent is Mr. Otto Harrassowitz, to whom we have 

 sent publications valued at £32-6-6 and Rs. 368-14-0, of which £29-9-4 

 and Rs. 356-11-10 worth have been sold for us. From him we have 

 received periodicals of the value of £1-5-6. 



Library. 



The total number of volumes or parts of volumes added to the Li- 

 brary during the year was 2,426, of which 685 were purchased and 1,741 

 presented or received in exchange for the Society's publications. 



In remodelling the new edition of the Society's Library Catalogue, 

 the titles of numerous books had to be revised and as the number of slips 

 prepared were too many to be inserted in the manuscript catalogue com- 

 piled by Mr. H. B. Perie, it has been found necessary to cut up the 

 whole of the manuscript catalogue in order to arrange it for press. The 

 work is close upon completion, and the manuscripts will be sent to press 

 very shortly. 



During the year there were several Meetings of the Library Com- 

 mittee relative to the proposed rejection of books from the Society's li- 

 brary. A number of books have been set aside, and the Council have de- 

 bided to circulate a list of these among those members of Council who are 

 not members of the Library Committee for their consideration, after 

 which the lists will be laid before a General Meeting. Meanwhile these 

 books are kept apart for inspection. 



As an experiment, the Council have allowed the Imperial Library 

 to borrow books from the Society for the use of its readers for three 

 months. During the period from 28th October 1903, to 27th January 

 1904 only 4 works have been thus borrowed. 



On the recommendation of the two Philological Secretaries, Babu 

 Mahendra Nath Mukerjee was appointed Pandit for the Oriental Libra- 

 ry in the place of Babu Charu Chandra Bhattacharya, resigned. 



