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The Secretary reported that Mr. W. T. Blanford had compounded for 

 his future subscriptions by a payment of Rs. 160. 



\st June. Ordinary Meeting. 



An exchange of publications was sanctioned with the Soci^te Malaco- 

 logique de Belgique. 



A letter was read from the Under-Secretary to the Government of 

 Bengal stating that His Honor the Lieutenant-Governor approved of the 

 manner in which the Oriental Publication and Sanskrit MSS. grants had 

 been applied during the past year. 



A revised list supplied by the Government of India, of individuals and 

 institutions to whom the future Nos. of the notices of Sanskrit MSS, 

 should be sent, was submitted and the distribution of the future Nos. of 

 the " Notices" was ordered to be made in accordance with this list. 



On the recommendation of the Philological Committee, it was resolved 

 that the Government should be informed that the Society is of opinion 

 that the search for Sanskrit MSS. in Bengal should be continued for at 

 least five years longer. 



Eead the minutes of the Philological Committee on letters from Pro- 

 fessor Hermann Jacobi and Dr. E. Hultzsch, offering an edition of the 

 Parisishtaparvan and of the Kularnava respectively for publication in the 

 Bibliotheca Indica. It was ordered that Dr. Jacobi's work should be 

 accepted, and that Dr. Hultzsch's proposal should be again referred to the 

 Philological Committee. 



2Qth June. Ordinary Meeting. 



A letter was read from the editor of the Civil and Military Gazette, 

 Lahore, asking if the Society's publications could be sent to him for review. 

 The request was acceded to. 



A letter was read from Mr. A. Grote announcing the publication of 

 Part II of Moore's " Lepidoptera" and giving an account of the sums 



expended on it. 



A proposal made by the Musee Royal d' Histoire Naturelle de Belgi- 

 que, that the Society should send all its publications in return for a complete 

 set of the Museum's publications, was agreed to. 



The Philological Secretary enquired what was to be done with Dr. 

 Charles's manuscript translation of the*' Susruta," which had been returned 

 by Dr. Uday Chand Dutt as being *' utterly worthless" for his purpose. It 

 was resolved that Dr. D. B. Smith and Dr. R. Harvey should be communi- 

 cated with on the matter, and that they should be informed that the Society 

 already has a translation of the work, by Dr. U. C. Dutt, in the press. 



On the recommendation of the Finance Committee it was resolved 

 that the advertisement of the monthly meetings in the daily newspapers 



