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late Assistant Secretary was very imperfect, steps were taken to prepare an 

 entirely new one, and for this purpose the Council sanctioned the employ- 

 ment of Mr. S. D'Cruze, who, with the Assistant Secretary, under Mr. Bloch- 

 mann's close supervision, has made great progress in cataloguing and arrang- 

 ing the Library, and it is hoped that the new Catalogue may be ready for 

 publication during the current year, and this long-felt want supplied, 



Reference was made in the last report to the progress made in prepar- 

 ing an analytical Catalogue of the Sanskrit MSS. in the Society's Library, 

 Owing to the repairs of the house, much interruption was caused to this 

 work during the past year, and the Pundit employed on it could examine 

 and catalogue only 200 MSS. The Pundit has also compiled Indices of 

 works in the following branches of Sanskrit Literature, to be appended to 

 Catalogues hereafter to be published : — Kosha, Kavya, Ch'hando, Alankara, 

 Jyotisha, Yaidyaka. In the meanwhile Dr. R. Mitra carried through 

 the Press the first part of the work, comprising detailed notices of all the 

 works on Sanskrit Grammar available in the Library. Annexed to this 

 volume is a list of all works on the subject known to exist. 



The Council are glad to announce that considerable progress has also 

 been made in the printing of Dr. Mitra's analysis of the valuable collection 

 of Sanskrit Buddhist MSS. presented to the Society by Mr. B. H. Hodgson. 



The Books and Book-cases in the Library have been properly arranged 

 and numbered. 



The Photographic collection has received the following additions, both 

 presented by the Home Department of the Government of India. 



1. A set of Photographs of the paintings at the Ajanta Caves. 



2. A set of Photographs of the Kantanagar Temple in Dinajpur. 



Publications. 



The Publications of the Society issued during the year compare favour- 

 ably with those of former years, and comprise 10 numbers of the Proceedings 

 consisting of 274 pages of text, with 3 plates. The Meteorological Observa- 

 tions, hitherto issued from the Surveyor General's Office, have been discon- 

 tinued from March, and do not therefore appear in the Proceedings from 

 that month. 



Four numbers of the Journal, Part I, have been issued, containing 468 

 pages of text, illustrated by 13 Plates. Of Journal Part II, 3 numbers have 

 also been issued, consisting of 314 pages of text illustrated by 1 plate. 

 The fourth number is in preparation and will be issued soon. 



The Council have made arrangements for publishing the descriptions 

 by Messrs. Moore and He wit son of the new species of Indian Lepidoptera 

 in the collections of the late Mr. W. S. Atkinson. They will be in three 

 parts, quarto form, similar to the transactions of the Zoological Society 



