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proposed exploration in the direction of the Bor Kampti country and 

 the sources of the Irrawady could not be granted, was recorded. 



October 29th, Ordinary Meeting. 



The request of Pandit Nilmoni Mukerji to be allowed to borrow more 

 tban two manuscripts at a time for the purpose of re-writing certain 

 manuscripts in the Library of the Sanskrit College, was agreed to, with 

 a limit of a total of five at a time. 



A letter from the Assistant Secretary to the Grovernment of India, 

 Home Department, stating that the Government of India had pleasure 

 in allowing the Society to print the summarised translation of the 

 Tazkaru-i-khwajagan by the late Mr. R. B. Shaw with an introduction 

 and notes by Mr. Ney Elias at the office of the Superintendent of 

 Government Printing, India, free of cost on the understanding that the 

 edition was limited to five hundred copies and that as many of these as the 

 Governor General in Council might require were to be reserved for his 

 use, was recorded. 



The selling price of " Padumawati " was fixed at Rs. 2. 



November 2Qthy Ordinary Meeting. 



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

 ment of Bengal, Revenue Department, forwarding copy of a letter from 

 the Assistant Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department, 

 requesting that the name of Mr. Kashinath Pandurang Paral of Bombay 

 might be added to the list of persons to whom catalogues of Sanskrit 

 Manuscripts are distributed and that he might be supplied with copies 

 of all past reports and catalogues so far as they could be conveniently 

 spared, it was ordered that Mr. Paral should be supplied with all the 

 notices of Sanskrit Manuscripts available. 



Dr. Grierson having resigned the editorship of the Journal, Part I, 

 stating that Dr. Hoernle had consented to take up the work as a 

 temporary measure till other arrangements are made, the council by a 

 resolution expressed their regret at Dr. Grierson's resignation and 

 thanked him for the work he had done for the Society. 



On the recommendation of the Anthropological Secretary, the 

 purchase of a copy of Roth's Natives of Sarawak and British North 

 Borneo, Vols. 1-2, price 60 shillings, was sanctioned. 



Owing to the high price of grain, the menial servants who drew 

 less than Rs. 8 a month except the duftries, were allowed an extra 

 rupee from 1st November till further orders. 



On the recommendation of the Secretary, the purchase of a copy of 

 the " Memoir of the Life and Correspondence of John Lord Teignmouth " 

 by his son Lord Teignmouth, Vols. 1-2, price Rs. 15, was sanctioned. 



