1878.] Annual Be^ort. 43 



EXPEI^DITURE. 



Publications, ... ... ... Es. 7,400 



Establishment, Library, ... ... ... 1,800 



Do. Secretary's office, ... ... ... 2,200 



Contingencies and petty charges, ... ..» ... 2,294 



Building, ... ... ... ... 500 



Furniture, ... ... ... ... 500 



Coin Fund, ... ... ... ... 500 



Library, ... ... ... ... 3,000 



Taxes, ... ... ... ... 750 



Es. 18,944 



The cost of the publication of Part I of Mr. Moore's papers on Mr. 

 Atkinson's Lepidopteo^a and of the new Library Catalogues will have to be 

 met from vested funds. 



The London Agency. 



Messrs. Triibnerand Co.'s half yearly statement of accounts with the 

 Society (1st July 1876 to 1st January 1877) shewed a balance of £118-2- 

 lOi d. due from the Society, which on subsequent examination was reduced 

 to £108-16 and duly remitted to Messrs. Triibner and Co. 



According to Messrs. Triibner and Co.'s statement, the sale of the 

 Society's publications from 1st July 1876 to 1st January 1877, amounted 

 to Es. 246 and that of the Bibliotheca Indica publications to Es. 78-12-0. 

 This sum, representing £26-8, was placed to the credit of the Society and 

 0. P. Fund respectively. 



Ten Invoices, consisting of publications of scientific Societies, presented 

 to and subscribed for by the Society, books purchased and books on inspec- 

 tion, were received from Messrs. Triibner and Co. during 1877. The 

 money value of these consignments amounted to £167-18-9, from which 

 the sum of £8-11 has to be deducted for the value of books returned, 

 leaving a balance of £159-7-9. 156 copies of both parts of the Journal, and 

 192 copies of the Proceedings were despatched to Messrs. Triibner and Co. 

 for sale ; representing respectively a money value of £28-12 and £10-8. 

 Of the Bibliotheca Indica publications 864 copies, valued at Es. 771-0 were 

 sent for sale. 



Library. 



The additions to the Library during the year comprise in all 1,235 vols, 

 and parts of vols. Of these 658 were received as presentations from 

 Government, from Authors and by exchange, and 577 were added by 

 purchase, which is considerably in excess of the additions made in the same 

 way to the Library in past years. 



As it was found that the Catalogue of the Library prepared by the 



