82 Annunl Beporf. [Feb., 



Letters were read from Sir William Thomson, Professor R. v. Roth 

 and Dr. William Wright, thanking the Society for having elected them 

 Honorary Members. 



A List, supplied by the Foreign Department, giving the names of 

 native Chiefs to whom the publications of the Bibliotheca Indica might 

 suitably be distributed gratuitously, was submitted ; and it was resolved 

 that the Sanskrit works should be sent to the Hindu Chiefs and the Arabic- 

 Persian works to the Mahommedan Chiefs, and Dr. Hoernle and Dr. Mitra 

 were requested to select from the list Chiefs to whom both Series could 

 advantageously be sent. 



A recommendation from the Finance Committee that the decayed 

 beams and burgahs in the rooms downstairs should be renewed in accor- 

 dance with an estimate submitted by Messrs. Mackintosh, Burn and Co. 

 was adopted. 



A request from Eabu Tarini Prosad Neogy, that the Society should 

 help him in his project of publishing various obsolete Sanskrit MSS., was 

 referred to the Philological Committee. 



The Secretary reported that he had forwarded to the Secretary to the 

 Government of Bengal 5 copies of Dr. Mitra's Report on the progress 

 made in the discovery and preservation of Sanskrit MSS. during the 

 year 1880-81. 



Mr. A. Pedler was elected a member of the Council. 



The various Committees for the ensuing year were elected. 



The Secretary reported that the following resolution had been passed 

 by the Finance Committee with regard to the sum annually allowed for 

 publications : 



" The Finance Committee recommend that in future an annual sum 

 be assigned to each Secretary for the publication for which he is responsi- 

 ble, which sum is not on any account to be exceeded ; and that any saving 

 on this be set apart for the same Secretary's publication for the ensuing 

 year, and not appropriated to any otlier purpose. And that the sum of 

 Rs. 6300, the estimated cost of publications for the ensuing year, be assign- 

 ed as follows : 



" Rs. 1000 to go towards defraying the deficit in last year's accounts, 



" Rs. 1800 to the Journal Part I, (Philology, Antiquities &c.) 



" Rs. 2500 to the Journal Part II, (Natural History, &c.) 



" Rs. 1000 to the Proceedings." 



The resolution was adopted with the following addition to the general 

 principle : 



" That any special subscription for extra publications in either branch 

 be specially placed to the credit of that branch and not appropriated to any 

 other purpose." 



