16 Annual Beport. [Feb. 



The other publications of the year are a Catalogue of the Society's 

 Sanskrit Books and Manuscripts, Part I, and Catalogue of the Society's 

 Arabic Books and Manuscripts, Part I, and a new and revised edition of 

 the Society's Rules. 



The Proceedings were edited by the General Secretary, Major 

 A. Alcock, I. M.S., who also, under the new rules, was empowered to 

 give general advice to the other Secretaries. 



Part I of the Journal was edited by Dr. T. Bloch, who also had 

 charge of the Coin Cabinet and reported on all the Treasure Trove coins 

 sent to the Society. Mahamahopadhyaya Hara Prasad Shastri was Joint 

 Philological Secretary. 



Part 11 of the Journal was edited by Mr. F. Finn, and Part III by 

 Mr. L. de Nic^ville until the end of March and thereafter by Major 

 L. A. Waddell, I.M.S. 



Proceedings of the Council. 



One of the most important pieces of business accomplished by the 

 Council has been the appointment, at the request of the Royal Society 

 and of the Government of India, of a " Regional Bureau," or Com- 

 mittee, to assist in carrying out the magnificent scheme of an Interna- 

 tional Catalogue of Scientific Literature proposed by the Royal Society. 

 The Committee, whose duties will be to select and classify, from the 

 mass of material published in India and Ceylon, the data required for 

 the Catalogue, will act independently of the Council in tlieir dealings 

 with the "Central Bureau" in London, and will prepare their own 

 annual report. The Government of India have sanctioned an annual 

 grant of Rs. 1,000 towards carrying on the woik. 



Another matter of public importance, in which the Council was 

 engaged, was the advocacy of Mr. R. D. Oldham's scheme for establish- 

 ing a Standard Time for all India, after the continental manner. The 

 Society takes a special interest in this subject because it promises to 

 ensure precision in our meteorological and seismological observations, 

 and it was encouraged to take the initiative in recommending it to 

 Government in consequence of the success that attended its efforts of 

 the year 1876 to ensure some provision for zoological research in the 

 Hydrographic Survey of India. This time, however, the Government 

 did not see its way to approve the Society's proposal. 



Several matters of domestic interest have occupied the attention of 

 the Council. First among these is the Library Catalogue. For some 

 years past this Catalogue has been talked about : we have now arranged 

 with Mr. H. B. Perie, formerly Librarian of the Indian Museum, to 

 prepare it, in the convenient style of the Indian Museum Catalogue. 



