4i2 Annual Ueport. [Feb. 



Messrs. Luzac & Co. were informed that any orders received direct 

 from England would, in future, be referred to ttem. 



Professor Jacobi was supplied with certain numbers of the Bihlio- 

 theca Indica. 



A copy of the Society's Library Catalogue was presented to the 

 British Museum, London. 



A copy of Tavernier's Travels in India, translated with notes 

 by Valentine Ball, in 2 vols., was ordered to be purchased for the Society's 

 Library. 



With reference to a letter from the Master, Her Majesty's Mint, 

 Calcutta, acknowledging the receipt of a pair of dies for the Barclay 

 Memorial Fund Medal and stating that the reverse die was very much 

 rusted, it was ordered that a new die should be prepared at the cost of 

 Rs. 350. 



With reference to a proposal by the Philological Secretary, to pub- 

 lish a very elaborate Grammar of the Ka9miri language, written some 

 years ago by the late Pandit I^varakaula, it was resolved to apply 

 to the Government of the Punjab and to the Kashmir Durbar, enquiring 

 whether they would be disposed to give any assistance to this useful 

 work. 



The Sub- Committee appointed to consider the correspondence from 

 the Royal Society, London, on the subject of the proposed Catalogue of 

 Scientific Literature, submitted the following resolutions for confirma- 

 tion : — 



1. That the Asiatic Society of Bengal write to the Royal Society 

 giving cordial support to the scheme. 



2. That the Asiatic Society of Bengal suggest that the scientific 

 publications of each country shall, in the first place, be catalogued by 

 some institution or institutions in that country who will undertake to 

 send in the portions of the catalogue so prepared to a central office or 

 bureau in London. 



3. That the Asiatic Society of Bengal offer to undertake this work 

 for the countries under the Government of India. 



4. That a Committee of the Council be formed to superintend this 

 work, each member taking a section of the work to include a certain 

 group of sciences. 



6. That the catalogue should contain the titles of all scientific 

 publications appearing in the countries under the Government of India, 

 whether published in periodical form or independently arranged, not only 

 according to the author's name but also according to subject matters. 



6. That if the cost of clerical assistance for the work is small the 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal will be willing to defray it, but if it is at all 



