1895.] Annual Report. 27 



On an application from the Provost of the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, an exchange of publications was sanctioned. 



The question of repairing the Society's pictures and re-gilding the 

 frames, as recommended by the Sub-Committee, was referred to the 

 Finance Committee for report. Tf funds were available, the work of 

 cleaning the pictures was ordered to be given to Mr. Palmer with in- 

 fitructions, that in cleaning he should not retouch any part of the picture 

 without reference to the Sub-Committee. 



The thanks of the Society were voted to Mr. Hoey for the presenta- 

 tion of a valuable copper-plate inscribed with A9oka characters. The 

 gift was ordered to be reported at the General Meeting. 



May Slst, Ordinary Meeting. 



The Council accepted the resignation of Dr. "Walsh as Anthropolo- 

 gical Secretary, and thanked him for his services. 



Lord Elgin's acceptance of the office of Patron of the Society was 

 ordered to be reported to the General Meeting. 



It was ordered that a reply should be sent to the Royal Society of 

 London, on the feasibility of compiling a catalogue of scientific papers 

 through International co-operation, to the e:ffect that there would be no 

 difficulty in co-ordinating the Society's publications with other periodical 

 publications in English, and that the Society would be prepared to make 

 a moderate contribution to the maintenance of a bureau when the 

 scheme took shape. 



On the recommendations of the Physical Science Committee, the 

 offer of Dr. Lawrence Fernandez to present the " Medical Reporter" 

 from 1892 to date, and future issues, to the Society's library was 

 accepted with thanks. 



It was agreed, on the recommendation of the Finance Committee, 

 that a sum of money up to a limit of one thousand rupees might, for the 

 present, be spent on repairing the Society's pictures. The question of 

 re-gilding the frames was deferred. 



Copies of Wright's Comparative Grammar of the Semitic Languages 

 and of Lacouperie's Western Origin of the Early Chinese Civilization 

 were ordered to be purchased for the Society's library. 



June 28th, Ordinary Meeting. 



The Honorary Central Secretaries, Indian Medical Congress, in 

 reply to their letter asking the use of the Society's building for the ac- 

 commodation of some of tlie sections of the Indiaa Medical Congress 

 which was to be held in Calcutta from the 24th to 29th December 1894, 

 were informed that the Society would be glad to put its rooms at the 



