1896.] Annual Report. 25 



Proceedings of the Society, in addition to the Journal^ Part II, already 

 sanctioned, should be supplied in exchange for " Novitates Zoologicae." 



On an application from the Under-Secretary to the Government of 

 Bengal, Public Works Department, it was agreed, at a cost of £30, to 

 subscribe for one set of Mr. W. Giiggs's proposed portfolios containing 

 photo-collotype reproductions of photographs selected from a valuable 

 collection of negatives at the India Office, illustrating the architecture 

 of India. 



The purchase of several books for the Society's library was 

 agreed to. 



The exchange of certain coins with Dr. Hoernle was approved. 



The payment of Rs. 286 to Mr. L. de Niceville for drawings in 

 colour of Butterflies for plates I-V, of the Society's Journal, Part II, 

 of 1894, was agreed to. 



The proceedings of the Philological Committee, regarding the revi- 

 sion of the system of transliteration used by the Society, were read and 

 approved. 



Read the correspondence on the subject of the cataloguing the coins 

 of the Society by Mr. C. J. Rodgers of Amritsar. The Secretary's pro- 

 posal that Mr. Rodgers should be offered five annas a coin for writing 

 and editing a catalogue of the Society's coins was approved. It was 

 ordered that the coins should be sent to Mr. Rodgers in groups, as ar- 

 ranged by Dr. Hoernle, — one group to be returned before another was 

 sent. 



With reference to the Council order, dated 1st March 1894, it was 

 determined to retain the services of the assistant in charge of the stock- 

 room for another three mouths. 



The purchase of the manuscript of " Irshadu-z-Zeraat, " price 

 Rs. 20, from Bahadur Shah of Lahore, for the Society's library was 

 approved. 



Dr. Hoernle, Mr. G. A. Grierson, and Mr. C. Little were deputed 

 to represent the Society at the 10th International Congress of Oriental- 

 ists at Geneva in 1894. 



It was agreed that Mr. A. Pedler should officiate as Treasurer 

 during the absence of Mr. Little. 



It was agreed that a third set of the Society's Asiatic Researches^ 

 Journal^ and Proceedings should be bound for the Library. 



April ^Gth, Ordinary Meeting. 



The Librarian of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and 

 Letters, in reply to his letter offering Volumes III to IX of their 

 " Transactions," and asking for Journal, Part I, in exchange, was 



