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of the Society they should be sent to the Secretary at least a week before- 

 hand. 



July 25th. Ordinary Meeting. 



A request from the Triplicane Society of Madras, asking to be supplied 

 with the publications of the Society gratis, was declined. 



A letter was read from the Assistant Secretary, asking for a room in 

 the Society's House, which was sanctioned. 



Dr. Rajendralala Mitra submitted a copy of a Catalogue of the Socie- 

 ty's MSS. (Grammar) and proposed that the usual number of cojDies be 

 sent to Government ; that it be sold at Rs. 2 per copy ; that copies be 

 presented to all Institutes with which the Society exchange ; that 20 copies 

 be given to the author, and that the sale proceeds be applied to the publi- 

 cation of the subsequent volumes. These proposals were sanctioned. 



August 30^^. Ordinary Meeting. 



The following gentlemen, proposed as Members of the Society at the 

 last Monthly General Meeting, were duly elected by the Council under 

 Rule 7. 



Babu Pratapa Narain Sinha, Babu Jnanendra Chandra Ghosha, Babu 

 Kedarnatha Datta, Captain H. W. Clarke, R. E. 



A re-exchange of publications was sanctioned with the American Orien- 

 tal Society. 



The Minutes of the Council were read, on Mr. Grote's letter about the 

 papers by Messrs. Moore and Hewitson, the Secretary reporting that he 

 had not remitted to Mr. Grote the £50 ordered at the last meeting, 

 from want of funds, and asking permission to sell out Government Secu- 

 rities for the amount required. 



It was ordered that Mr. Grote be asked to kindly give an estimate of 

 the number of quarto plates required to illustrate these papers to the 

 same extent as the octavo plates already sanctioned, and the cost of 

 drawing, printing and colouring 325 copies. 



On the recommendation of the Finance Committee a sum of Rs. 1,500 

 was ordered to be sold out of Government Securities, to refund advances 

 from current revenue, to meet charges for repairs, &c. 



Dr. Rajendralala Mitra submitted specimen sheets of his Analysis of 

 the Hodgson collection of Buddhist MSS. and stated that the publication 

 would cost Rs. 1200. 



It was ordered that the cost of publishing be defrayed out of the Con- 

 servation of Sanskrit MSS. Fund. 



