1900.] Annual Report. 17 



Mr. Perie has agreed to compile the catalogue and fo see it through the 

 press for an honorarium of Rs. 1,000. A permanent sub-committee, 

 consisting of Dr. Bloch, Mahamahopadhjaya Haraprasad Shastri and 

 Major Alcock, has been appointed to superintend the progress of the 

 work. 



A new and revised edition of the Rules of the Society has been 

 published, and for the first time the Library Rules and the Council's 

 Regulations regarding the submission of Papers for publication have 

 been added as appendices. 



The question of the Society's proper designation, which was raised 

 by Major L. A. Waddell, I. M.S., has given some occupation to a special 

 sub-committee. It appears from our Title-deeds that our original desig- 

 nation was " The Asiatic Society " and that for a great deal more than 

 half a century this was the name that we ourselves used and by which 

 we were officially addressed. The specific qualification ** of Bengal," 

 which ignores our Title-deeds, appears to have gradually established 

 itself, but without — so far as we can ascertain from our records — any 

 overt official sanction. In 1876 the Society was registered under the 

 Registration Act, as the " Asiatic Society of Bengal " but there is no 

 evidence on record that this change of name was formally proposed to 

 and sanctioned by tlie Members. The sub-committee therefore recom- 

 mended that the original name of " The Asiatic Society " should be re- 

 sumed, and the Council endorsed tlie recommendation, which wa^s then 

 submitted to the whole body of Ordinary Members under Rules 64c, 64A 

 and 65. More than a hundred voting-papers were returned, and 

 although a large majority were in favour of the recommendation of 

 the sub-committee a sufficient minority (under Rule 78) voted against 

 it. 



At the instance of Dr. G. A. Grierson the Council have arranged 

 for the publication, in the Bihliotheca Indica series of a Kashmiri 

 Dictionary. The work will be supervised by Dr. Grierson and will be 

 printed, under his direction, in England. 



On the recommendation of the Philological Committee, the com- 

 pletion of the late Professor Peterson's Edition of the TJpamiti-hhana- 

 prapancha-katha for the Bihliotheca Indica series was entrusted to 

 Professor Jacobi. 



The request of Dr. Sten Konow to retain the two Nepalese MSS. 

 Gunahdrandavyuha and Dvdvimgavaddna for a further period of one 

 year was agreed to by the Council ; and the Buddhist MS. SK^gatdvadana 

 was, on application, lent to the Librarian of the India Office for the use 

 of Mrs. Mabel Bode, 



