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Letters were read from Mr. H. Beverley and Mr. C. H. Tawney 

 announcing their departure from India, and tendering their resignations as 

 members of Council and Trustees of the Indian Museum on behalf of the 

 Society. Major J. Waterhouse and Dr. H. W. M'Cann were appointed 

 their successors as Trustees of the Indian Museum. 



At the request of Mr. H. Rivett-Carnac, the stone carvings exhibited 

 at the meeting of the Society held in July, 1^79, were ordered to be trans- 

 ferred to the Indian Museum. 



A request from Mr. A. Grote that he should be allowed to exceed the 

 grant of £140, for Part Il'of Moore's "Descriptions of Lepidoptera," on 

 the understanding that the cost of Part III should be reduced by the 

 same amount, was acceded to. 



A Committee was appointed to arrange for a Conversazione to be held 

 during the 3rd week of February and a vote of thanks was passed to Sir 

 A. Eden, the President, for his generous offer to defray all expenses con- 

 nected with it. 



It was resolved to subscribe for two copies of each work published by 

 the Pali Text Society. 



The Annual Report was submitted and approved, and a special meet- 

 ing of the Council was ordered to be called for the 31st January to pass 

 the Annual Accounts. 



^Ist January, Special Meeting, 



The Annual Accounts were examined and passed. 



The Treasurer drew attention to the excess of expenditure over income, 

 and pointed out that it was mainly due to the expenses of publishing the 

 Society's Journal and Proceedings. It was resolved that the Finance 

 Committee should be requested to draw up rules for controlling the expen- 

 diture on publications. 



2^rd February. Ordinary Meeting. 



A letter was read from "the Secretary to the Government of Bengal, 

 forwarding a copy of a letter from the Secretary to the Government of 

 India, Home Department, and requesting that the Lieutenant-Governor 

 may be favoured with an expression of the opinion of the Asiatic Society 

 regarding the propriety of discontinuing the search for ancient Sanskrit 

 MSS. in Bengal. The correspondence was referred to the Philological 

 Committee for their opinion. 



On the recommendation of the Natural History Secretary, it was 

 agreed to exchange publications with the Soci^te des Sciences de Finlande, 

 and to exchange the Society's Proceedings for the Brunswick Natural His- 

 tory Society's " Jahresbericht." 



