1900.] Annual Report. 15 



Oar Continental Agent is Mr, Otto Harrassowitz, to whom we have 

 sent publications valued at £ 40-12-6 and Hs. 435-14-0, of which 

 £ 29-14-2 and Rs. 106-6-10 worth have been sold for us. 



Library. 



The codified additions will be found as an appendix to the December 

 issue of the Froceedings ; they number 2545, of which 748 were pur- 

 chases and 1797 donations or exchanges. 



The extent and importance of our exchanges should appeal to those 

 members who are inclined to advocate retrenchment in our publications. 



A new edition of the Library Catalogue has been energetically 

 taken in hand, and some provision has been made in the Budget Esti- 

 mate of 1900 for proceeding to publication. 



All the books, except those in the Oriental Library, have been 

 thoroughly cleaned and poisoned against insects. 



Publications, 



Of the Proceedings ten numbers were published, namely, No. 11, 

 (Index and Title-page) of 1898, and Nos. 1-9 of 1899. Among other 

 matters of interest they contain reports of the sub-committees appointed 

 to reprint the Society's Kules and to consider the resumption by the 

 Society of its original title, and the scheme proposed by Mr. R. D. 

 Oldham for establishing a Standard Time for the whole of India. 



Of the Journal^ Part I, four numbers were published ; namely. 

 No. 4 of 1898, and No. 1, and Extra Numbers 1 and 2 of 1899. The 

 first Extra Number consists of Dr. Hoernle's report on A Collection 

 of Antiquities from Central Asia, and is illustrated by a Map and 19 photo- 

 etched plates, all of which were paid for by the Government of India. 

 The second Extra Number is Dr. M. A. Stein's Memoir on Maps illus- 

 trating the Ancient Geography of Kashmir. This, though it was delivered 

 by the Press in July last, has not yet been distributed, owing to the 

 fact that the Society seems to have been, in some irregular way, pledged 

 several years ago not to issue the Maps to which the Memoir relates 

 until th.e same author's edition of Kalhana^s Uajatarangini, which it 

 appears the Maps are also intended to illustrate, should be published by 

 Messrs. Constable & Co. The new regulations for the control of papers 

 by the Council as a whole will, if observed, prevent the reoccurrence of 

 irregularities of this kind. 



Three numbers of the Journal Part II, have been distributed, 

 containing several important papers on Zoology, and illustrated by two 

 lithographed plates. 



Of the Journal, Part III, only one number has been issued. 



