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large the Asiatic Society of Bengal will apply to tbe Government of 

 India for assistance. 



7. That if the catalogue should take tlie form of a card catalogue 

 to be sent to London, the Society will keep a copy of the list so formed 

 and publish it in its Proceedings. 



8. That it is unnecessary to submit any more detailed scheme till 

 further communications have been received from the Royal Society. 



It was accordingly ordered that the report of the Sub-Committee 

 be appi-oved, and a reply sent on the lines suggested. 



The Sub-Committee appointed to consider the question of the 

 Barclay Memorial Medal, recommended that the medal should be in 

 bronze and that arrangements should be made to have it struck at the 

 mint, and that the dies should be sent there at once for safe keeping. 

 They also considered that it should be given for the most important 

 piece of work done in research in any one year in Zoology or Botany, 

 specially relating to India. It was accordingly resolved as follows : — 

 That the report of the Sub-Committee be accepted, that the award of tbe 

 medal be announced every year at the Annual Meeting of the Society, 

 and that the question of the award be brought up in the December meet- 

 ing of Council each year. 



Dr. Grierson having intimated that he would not be able to carry 

 on the duties of the Philological Secretary as he was permanently 

 transferred from Howrah to Bankipur, but that if there was any diffi- 

 culty experienced in finding a successor, he would be happy to continue 

 the editing of the Journal, Part I., the Council resolved to accept Dr. 

 Grierson's offer to continue the editorship of the Journal for a year. ' 



A Committee was formed consisting of the President, Dr. Cunning- 

 ham, Dr. Alcock, Mr. Holland and Dr. Mahendra Lai Sarkar, with 

 power to add to their number, to invite subscriptions and take such 

 steps as they considered necessary to further the purpose of the Huxley 

 Memorial. 



The Essay on the transformation of hypochlorites into chlorates by 

 Jyoti Bhusan Bhaduri, the recipient of the Elliott Prize for Scientific 

 Research on Chemistry in 1895, was ordered to be read at the next 

 meeting and published in the Journal. 



On the recommendation of the Secretary, copies of Hunter's 

 Orissa, and of Hunter's Annals of Rural Bengal, were ordered to be 

 purchased for the Society's library. 



March 26^^, Ordinary Meeting. 



The Superintendent, Baptist Mission Press, was allowed an extra 

 charge of two annas per page throughout the translation of " Al- 



