88 Committees for 1900. [July, 



Tlic Secretary reported the death of Pandit Rnjani Kanta Gupta. 



The Chairman annonnced : — 



(1) That Captain W. F. O'Connor, R.A., who had been elected a 

 member of the Society on the 6th December, 1899, having not paid his 

 entrance fee, his election has become null and void according to Rule 9. 



(2) That Messrs. F. Finn, John Bathgate, and S. C. Hill, had been 

 elected members of Council of the Society. 



The Secretary read the names of the following gentlemen who hnd 

 been appointed to serve on the various Committees for the present 

 year. 



Finance and Visiting Committee. 



Major A. Alcock, I.M.S , Dr. T. Bloch, Mr. L. de Niceville, Mr, 

 J. D. Nimmo, Mr. F. E. Pargiter, Mr. A. Pedler, F.R,S., Mr. H. H. 

 Risley, Mahamahopadhyaya Harapiasad Shastri, Dr. Mahendralal Sircar. 



Library Committee. 



Major A. Alcock, I.M.S., Dr. T. Bloch, Mr. L. de Niceville, Malia- 

 mahopadhyaya Haraprasnd Shastri, Mr. D. Hooper, Mr. E. Thornton, 

 Mr. C. W. McMinn, Mr. S. C. Hill, The Hon. Dr. Asutos^^ Mukerjee, 

 Mr. P. N. Bose. 



Philological Committee, 



Dr. T. Bloch, Mr. F. E. Pargiter, Mahamahopadli^^aya Haraprasad 

 Shastri, Dr. Mahendralal Sircar, The Hon. Dr. Asutosh Mukerjee, 

 Maulavi Ahmad, Babu Pratapa Chandra Ghosha, Mahamahopadhyaya 

 Nilmani Mukerjee Nyayalankara, Shams-ul-Ulama Shaikh Mahomed 

 Gilani, Mr. A. Venis, Lt.-Col. L. A. Waddell, I.M.S., Mr. J. G. Lorimer, 

 Bnbu ISTagendra Nath Vasu, Pandit Satyavrata Samasrami, Major D. C, 

 Phillott, I.S.C, Mahamahopadhyaya Cliandra Kanta Tarkalankara. 



Coins Committee. 



Dr. T. Bloch, Mr. F. E. Pargiter, Lt.-Col. D. S. E. Bain, I.M.S., 

 Mr. L. W. King, Mr. E. Thurston, Babu Panchanan Mukerjee, The 

 Hon. Mr. J. A. Bourdillon, Mr. V. A. Smith. 



The proposal to withdraw Rs. 10,000 from the Permanent Reserve 

 Fund for meeting the cost of i-epairing the Society's premises, and for 

 instituting a " Repairs Fund " for future contingencies, of which 



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