44 Annual Eeport. [Feb. 



Badaoni " as a special case, ia consequence of the unusual number of 

 notes in small type. 



The Huxley Memorial Committee having submitted a report to the 

 effect that circulars had been sent out to some 100 persons, that already 

 E/S, 152 had been subscribed and Rs. 202 promised, and that the 

 subscriptions received would be advertised in the Indian Daily News, it 

 •was ordered that steps should be takea to get the matter noticed in 

 leading Baropean and Native newspapers. 



A letter from General Tennant asking the Society to take steps to 

 collect information in anticipation of the total eclipse of the sun on the 

 21st January 1898, was referred to a committee consisting of the Presi- 

 dent, Colonel Waterhouse, Mr. John Eliot, and Babu Pratapa Candra 

 Ghosa with power to add to their number. 



The Council resolved to thank the Agent, East Indian Railway, for 

 his courtesy in granting a free pass for the conveyance of the Philologi- 

 cal Secretary's box between Bankipur and Calcutta and vice versd, and 

 to send him a copy of the Society's Journal Part I, free of charge, as 

 long as the arrangement continued. 



The Council agreed to an extra grant of Rs. 450, for the Proceed- 

 ings for the printing of four plates illustrating Mr. Caddy's article '* On 

 two unrecorded sculptures in the Ananta Cave, Khandagiri." 



On the recommendation of the Secretary, copies of Orme's Histori- 

 cal Fragments of the Mogul Empire, and of Petrie's Ten Year's Digging 

 in Egypt, were ordered to be purchased for the Society's library. 



April SOth, Ordinary Meeting. 



A letter from the Under-Secretary to the Government of Bengal, 

 General Department, forwarding copy of a letter from the Assistant 

 Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department, conveying 

 the approval of the Government of India to the name of Nagari Pra- 

 charini Sabha, Benares, being included in the list of societies to whom 

 catalogues of Sanskrit Manuscripts are sent, was ordered to be recorded 

 and the decision communicated to the Sabha. 



Dozy's Historia Abbadidarum praemissis Scriptorum Arabum de ea 

 dynastia locis nunc primum editis, Vols. II and III, price 8 florins, 

 6 cents, was ordered to be purchased for the Society's Library. 



In reply to a letter regarding the proposed exploration of certain 

 archeeological remains on the Ratnagiri Hill in Orissa, the Under- 

 Secretary to the Government of Bengal, Public Works Department, was 

 informed that the Council were of opinion that the remains were worth 

 exploration and suggested that Mr. Caddy be employed to supervise the 

 work. 



