1897.] Annual Be^ort. 45 



In reply to a letter about increased accommodation, the Secretary, 

 Photographic Society of India, was informed that the Council were 

 willing to grant the- increased accommodation^'asked for at Rs. 40 a 

 month, on condition that proper lease should be drawn and executed for 

 the whole four rooms occupied, that the agreement should be termi- 

 nable on six months' notice on either side,'and that the'^Photographic 

 Society should provide a separate water-supply for their^own use. 



Pandit Harimohan Yidyabhusan, the pandit of the Society, was 

 granted further leave of one year from May 1896. 



On the recommendation of the Secretary, a copy of the'translation 

 of the Memoirs of Zehil-ud-din Muhammad Babar, Emperor of Hindus- 

 tan, was ordered to be purchased at a reasonable.'price, for the Society's 

 Library. 



Dr. Alcock consented to look to any urgent work during Mr. 

 Wilson's absence. 



It was agreed to allow Rupee 1-12 a page instead of the sanctioned 

 rate of Rupee 1 a page for the compilation of the index to the Tabaqat- 

 i-Nasiri. 



May 28^Zt, Ordinary Meeting, 



Mr. C. J. Rodgers' report on the Sangla Tibba in the Gujranwala 

 District, in connection with the question of quarrying that hill for the 

 purpose of supplying ballast for the Wazirabad-Lyallpur Railway, was 

 ordered to be published in the Proceedings. 



The exchange of the Society's Journal, Part III. for the publications 

 of the Anthropological Society of Australasia was sanctioned. 



Permission was granted to Dr. Priedrich Schwally to retain the 

 manuscript of " Kitabul-Mashasinwal Masawi " for] another three or 

 four months. 



A letter was recorded from the Under-Secretary to the Govrernment 

 of Bengal, Public Works Department, stating that Mr. A. E, Caddy 

 was at present away on deputation and that the work of exploring the 

 archaeological remains on the Ratnagiri Hill in Orissa, would have to 

 wait till next cold season, when perhaps Mr. Caddy would be available 

 or a regular archaeological officer appointed to the Province, or to the 

 Indian Museum. 



The Natural History Secretary was ordered to report at the next 

 General Meeting, that Rs. 884 had been collected for the Huxley 

 Memorial Fund, and to remit the same to England. 



June 2bth, Ordinary Meeting. 

 On the recommendation of the Joint Philological Secretary, it was 

 agreed to purchase Dutt's English translation of the primadbhagavatam. 

 Book II, and subsequent volumes for the Society's Library. 



