46 Annual Report. [Feb. 



A letter from tlie Under-Secretary, Government of Bengal, in 

 charge Foreign Office, enquiring if the Society wonld undertake tlie 

 publication of the History of the Khojas of Eastern Turkistan sum- 

 marised from the Tazkaru-i-khwajagan of Muhammad Sadek,Kashghari, 

 by the late Robert Barkley Shaw, edited with Introduction and Notes 

 by N. Elias, was referred to Dr. Grierson. 



The Photographic Society of India having accepted the terms offered 

 them for the lease of two additional rooms on a monthly rental of Rs. 100 

 for the entire premises occupied by them, the lease to commence from 

 the 1st August 1896, the arrangement was approved. 



The offer of the Manager, Khadga Yilas Press, Bankipur, to print 

 the edition of Iswara Kaula's Kashmiri Grammar at Rupee 1-10 a page, 

 royal octavo, was approved. 



The proposal of Surgeon-Leiut-Col. G. Ranking to translate 

 *' Ahsunu-1-tagasim fi manifate-1-Agatim," for the Bibliotheca Indica, 

 was agreed to. 



J'uly 20th, Ordinary Meeting. 



A letter from Messrs. Robarts, Lubbock and Co., London, acknow- 

 ledging the receipt of £ 51-4-1, on account of the Huxley Memorial 

 Fund through the Asiatic Society of Bengal, was recorded. 



An exchange of publications from 1896 was sanctioned with the 

 Field Columbian Museum, Chicago. 



A donation of Rs. 250 by His Highness the Maharajah Scindia 

 for printing certain plates to illustrate Mr. C. Maries' paper on coins 

 of the Native States, was acknowledged with thanks and ordered to 

 be announced at the General Meeting. 



The resignation of Mr. F. Finn as Anthropological Secretary of 

 the Society was accepted, and the council appointed Mr. L. de Niceville 

 to the vacant post. 



With reference to a letter from Monsieur E. Senart on the subject of 

 the Oriental Congress to be held in Paris, 5th-12th September, 1897, it 

 was resolved to form a Sub-Committee consisting of Dr. Hoernle, Babu 

 Pratapa Candra Ghosa and Pandit Haraprasad pastri, to comply as far 

 as possible with the requests contained in Monsieur Senart's letter. 



The draft lease of the rooms proposed to be rented by the Photo- 

 graghic Society of India, was ordered to be engrossed, executed, and 

 registered. 



With reference to a letter from the Under-Secretary to the Govern- 

 ment of Bengal, in charge Foreign Office, forwarding the History of 

 the Khojas of Eastern Turkistan by the late R. B. Shaw, edited with 

 introduction and notes by N". Elias for publication in the Society's 



