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tion to the erection of a small Government Post -Office, on a piece o£ their 

 waste ground, and reported that the Finance Committee recommend the 

 acceptance of Mr. Gribble's offer. 



The letter was circulated to Members of the Council for an expres- 

 sion of opinion. 



A request from Dr. F. Kielhorn, of Poena, for the loan of a MS. from 

 the Society's collection, to assist him in j)reparing a critical edition of the 

 Mahabhashya, was granted. 



March 1st. Ordinary Meeting. 



A letter was read from T. W. Gribble, Esq., Post Master General of 

 Bengal, stating, in reply to the Society's letter No. 62, dated 13th February, 

 1877, that the Director General of Post-Offices in India had authorized 

 him to offer Rs. 100 a month for the use of the Post-Office it was pro- 

 posed to erect on a waste piece of the Society's ground. 



The Secretary was requested to ascertain the cost of a building such as 

 required by the Post Office, and to inquire whether the Post-Office would 

 take it on a repairing lease for 14 or 21 years. 



A letter was read from V. Sresnevesky, Esq., Secretary of the Impe- 

 rial Russian Geographical Society, St. Petersburgh, accepting the proposed 

 exchange of publications with the Society. 



The publications of the Society were ordered to be sent from 1870. 



The Secretary reported that under the Museum Act, 22 of 1876, ano- 

 ther Trustee on behalf of the Society had to be apjDointed. 



Mr. T. S. Isaac was asked to accept the post. 



The Minutes of the Society's Trustees of the Indian Museum on the 

 state of the Zoological and Ethnological collections made over by the Asia- 

 tic Society to the Indian Museum were read, and a letter ordered to be 

 addressed to the Government on the subject. 



The Minutes of the Members of the Natural History Committee on a 

 proposal from Mr. Grote regarding the publications of descriptions of a por- 

 tion of the entomological Collections, left by the late Mr. W. S. Atkinson 

 were read, and it was agreed to publish an extra number of the Journal 

 containing descriptions of the collection, and that the cost of coloured 

 plates should be ascertained. 



March 2^th. Ordinary Meeting. 

 A letter was ^ead from the Officiating Post Master General of Bengal, 

 in reply to the Society's letter No. 140, dated 6th March 1877, stating that 

 the rough plan of the Post Office submitted would suit, and that there was 

 no objection to a long repairing lease on the terms proposed : but asking 

 for a detailed plan of the building in order to specify certain small internal 

 fittings. 



