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The minutes of the Council were read on a memorandum by the 

 Treasurer, on the subject of the compulsory conversion of the 4 per 

 cent, loan of 1842-43 and the optional conversion of the other 4 per 

 cent, loans of the Society's investments, in accordance with notification 

 in the Gazette of India, dated 30th June 1894. It was ordered that 

 the sum of Rs. 700 now held in the 4 per cent, loan of 1842-43 be 

 converted, but that no steps should be taken with regard to the loans 

 of 1854-55 and 1865. 



August SOth, Ordinary Meeting. 



A copy of Sir W. W. Hunter's Bengal MS. Records, Volumes I to 

 lY, price 30 shillings, was purchased for the library. 



With reference to Mr. H. Beveridge's suggestion on the subject 

 of publishing the translation of " Akbar-Namah," the Philological 

 Committee agreed that a revised and annotated edition of Lieutenant 

 Chalmers' translation of the " Akbar-N"amah " should be publislied. Mr. 

 Beveridge was requested to obtain the formal consent af the Royal 

 Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland to edit the MS. translation 

 of Lieutenant Chalmers which is in their possession, and to transmit 

 their consent to the Society. 



Council resolved that the entire investments held in the 4 per cent, 

 loan should be converted into the new 3f per cent. loan. 



September 27th, Ordinary Meeting. 



A copy of the portrait of the late Major- General Sir Alexander 

 Cuaningham was purchased for the Society. 



The offer of Mr. J. G. Delmerick of a copy of the manuscript of 

 ** Tarikh-Muzaffari " in exchange for Vols. II and III of Colonel Jarrett's 

 translation of the " Ain-i-Akbari," Major Raverty's " Tabaqat-i-Nasiri " 

 and translation of " Badouni," was approved. 



Pandit Harimohan Yidyabhusana, the Pandit of the Society, was 

 granted leave for one month owing to ill-health ; and as his substitute, 

 Pandit Annadaprasad Sarasvati was accepted. 



November 1st, Ordinary Meeting. 



On an application from the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadel- 

 phia, it was ordered that, as far as possible, the Society's publications 

 wanting in their set should be supplied. 



Several books were ordered to be purchased for the Society's 

 library. 



The acceptance of Messrs. Luzac and Co. of the Agency of the 

 Society on the terms offered to them was recorded. 



