1897.] Annual Report. 4*7 



Journal, it was resolved to ask the Government of India to assist in the 

 publication. 



It was agreed to thank Mr. John Eliot for the great trouble he had 

 taken in drawing up a note in order to give the chief meteorological 

 features of the tract of country in India through which the Solar 

 Eclipse of January 1898 will pass. 



In reply to a letter on the subject of a proposed journey to discover 

 the sources of the Irrawady asking for certain assistance, Lieutenant 

 Eldrid Pottinger was informed that the Society was not in a position 

 to help pecuniarily. It was, however, resolved to write to the Govern- 

 ment of India to recommend that sanction be given to Mr. Pottinger's 

 proposed journey of exploration. 



August 27t7i, Ordinary Meeting. 



On an application from the Chief Librarian, Royal University of Up- 

 sala, it was agreed to send that University, Notices of Sanskrit Manus- 

 cripts, Yols. I-X, Journal, Parts I-II from 1893 and Proceedings and 

 Journal, Part III, from 1896, in exchange for its publications. 



The purchase of a copy of Whitehead's Exploration of Mount Kin a 

 Balu, North Borneo, price £2-17-6, for the Society's Library was 

 sanctioned. 



Permission was ^iven to Mahabir Prasad to republish Dr. Mitra's 

 translation of the Yoga Bhashya by Vyasa on the usual conditions, 

 viz : — that the name of the translator be prominently mentioned with the 

 fact that it was originally published by the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 

 that no alteration be made in the body of the text and that if alterations 

 are to be made they are to be given in foot-notes. 



September 26th, Ordinary Meeting. 



An exchange of publications with the Museo de La Plata, was 

 agreed to. 



It was resolved f o prepare a copy of the manuscript of " Baudhayana- 

 grhyasutra" and send it to Dr. W. Caland of Breda. 



Dr. Alcock, having resigned the oflSce of Natural History Secretary, 

 it was ordered that the thanks of the Society be given to him for the 

 valuable work he has done for the Society and that Mr. Finn be ap- 

 pointed in his place. 



The question of buying a second copy of Munshi Mohamed Padshah's 

 Arabic and Persian Dictionary, in 3 vols., was referred to Dr. Ranking. 



A letter from the Deputy Secretary to the Government of India, 

 Foreign Department, stating that it had been decided after full consider- 

 ation that the permission asked for by Lieutenant Pottinger regarding the 



