32 Annual Bepori. [Feb., 



An exchange of publications was sanctioned with the Comit^ Geolo- 

 gique, St. Petersburgh. 



A letter was read from Professor J. Jolly, promising to send, at an 

 early date, the MS. of his edition of the Selections from the Commen- 

 taries of Mann. 



An application from the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic So- 

 ciety, for permission to republish Selections from the Asiatic Researches 

 and the Society's Journal, was sanctioned. 



It was resolved to subscribe for 2 copies of the " Punjab Notes and 

 Queries" and of the Popular Edition of the Asiatic Researches. 



An offer from Mr. J. P. Fleet to purchase one of the six copies left 

 in stock of the Rajatarangani was accepted. 



It was resolved that the report of the Centenary Meeting and of the 

 Speeches at the Centenary Dinner be published in a Special No. of the 

 Broceedings and also in the Centenary Review. Also that the three 

 parts of the Review be bound together, and that each Editor receive 20 

 copies of the bound volume. 



The Annual Report was read and approved ; and the annual ac- 

 counts for 1883 with the estimate of Receipts and Expenditure for 1884i 

 were laid on the table. 



Mr. J. Westland and Major J. Waterhouse were appointed Auditors 

 of the annual accounts. 



February 6th. Special Meeting. 



The annual accounts for 1883 and the Budget Estimate of Income 

 and Expenditure for 1884 were submitted and passed. 



Mr. Bion, the Assistant Secretary, was granted seven months' leave 

 from 1st April, provided the Catalogue and the Centenary Review were 

 then satisfactorily completed. 



February 2Sth. Ordinary Meeting. 



Read a letter from the Meteorological Reporter to the Government 

 of India, stating that he believed that the first part of " Die Temperatur 

 Verhaltnisse der Russischen Reiches," intended for his department, had 

 by mistake been addressed to the Asiatic Society. It was ordered that 

 the volume be transferred to the Meteorological Office Library. 



At the suggestion of Messrs. Triibner and Co., it was resolved that 

 all foreign periodicals should in future be sent through them instead of 

 direct from the publishers. 



The various Committees for the ensuing year were elected. 



The Honorable H. J. Reynolds was elected a Trustee of the Indian 

 Museum, on behalf of the Society, vice Mr. Eliot, resigned. 



It was ordered that 100 copies of the Special Number of the Cen- 

 tenary Proceedings be printed separately for sale. 



