B^ Annual Report. [Feb. 



£12-10-G, and Rs. 291-12-0, respectively; other books were sent for sale 

 amounting to £2-5-0. 



Nine invoices of books purchased, and of publications of various 

 Societies sent in exchange, were received during the year. The value 

 of the books purchased amounted to £99-16-3. 



Continental Agency. 



The number of copies of parts of the Journal., of the Proceedings, 

 of the Annual Address, and of the Bibliotheca Indica sent to Mr. Otto 

 Harrassowitz, the Society's Continental Agent, during 1896, for sale, 

 were 35, 80, 5, and 341, valued at £5-6-0, £3-11-3, £0-7-6, and 

 Rs. 202-8-0, respectively. Other books were sent for sale amounting 

 to Rs. 11-8-0. 



Library. 



The total number of volumes, or parts of volumes added to the 

 Library during the year was 1,932, of which 516 were purchased and 

 1,416 presented or received in exchange for the Society's publications. 



The compilation of a new edition of the Society's Library Catalogue 

 is far advanced and it is hoped before the close of the year the Cata- 

 logue will be published. 



Publications. 



There were published during the year nine numbers of the " Pro- 

 ceedings" (Nos. 9 and 10 of 1895, and Nos. 1-6 and 8 of 1896), contain- 

 ing 172 pages of letter-press and 8 plates ; four numbers of the Journal^ 

 Part I (Nos. 3 and 4 of 1895 and l^Tos. 1 and 2 of 1896), containing 421 

 pages of letter-press and 11 plates ; four numbers of the Journal, Part 

 II (No. 3 of 1895, and Nos. 1-3 of 1896), containing 801 pages of 

 letter-press and 10 plates. The Annual Address of the President was 

 printed separately from the Proceedings and contained 77 pages of 

 letter-press. Indexes to the Journal, Parts I and II, for 1895, and 

 Part III for 1893, were also published. 



Barclay Memorial Fund Medal. 



During the year 1896, Dr. G. Bomford, on behalf of the Surgeon- 

 General, Indian Medical Service, offered to make over to the Society 

 the Barclay Memorial Fund Medal, together with a sum of about five 

 hundred rupees belonging to the Fund. 



The Council resolved to accept the Medal. The conditions under 

 which the Medal should be awarded were referred to a Sub- Committee, 

 consisting of Colonel Waterhouse, Dr. Cunningham, and Dr. Alcock. 



The Sub-Committee considered that the Medal should be in bronze 



