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Home Department, stating that Government cannot give away any copies 

 of the Parliamentary papers and returns relating to India, nor can they 

 ask the Secretary of State to supply them except on payment, hut that 

 the Home Department can lend the Society a set of these papers on deposit, 

 on the understanding that they can call for any if required, or, if neces- 

 sary, recover the whole at any time. It was resolved that the loan of a set 

 of such papers should be accepted under these conditions. 



A letter was read from Colonel J. F. Tennant, Master of the Mint, 

 stating that the Government of India had sanctioned the grant to the 

 Asiatic Society of a set of specimens of the old coins struck at the Calcutta 

 Mint, and forwarding a set with a list. It was resolved that, in acknow- 

 ledging the receipt of these coins, Col. Tennant should be specially thanked 

 for obtaining sanction from Government to present them to the Society ; 

 and that a list of the coins should be published in the " Proceedings." 



The Philological Secretary was requested to engage a Maulvi for the 

 purpose of completing the catalogue of Arabic and Persian books and MSS., 

 payment to be made monthly according to work done. 



Dr. J. Scully was re-elected a member of the Natural History Com- 

 mittee. 



Mr. J. Wood- Mason, the Natural History Secretary having left for 

 England, it was ordered that Mr. R. Lydekker be asked to undertake the 

 duties of Natural History Secretary on his return to India. 



^th Novemler. Ordinary Meeting. 



A letter was read from Dr. Rajendralala Mitra submitting a copy of 

 bis work entitled " Nepalese Buddhist Literature." It was resolved that 

 Dr. R. Mitra should receive 30 author's copies, and that the work should be 

 sold at Rs. 5 per copy. Dr. Mitra and Dr. Hoernle were requested to select 

 from the gratuitous distribution list of the Bibliotheca Indica such Socie- 

 ties, Institutions and Individuals as might fittingly be presented with the 

 work. 



Parts I and II of Moore's " Lepidoptera of Cejlon" having been pre- 

 sented by the Home Department with the suggestion that the Society 

 should apply for the remaining Parts directly to the Ceylon Government, 

 it was resolved to make such application. 



Mr. H. B. Medlicott reported that only 6 proofs of fresh matter of 

 the Catalogue, each consisting of about a page, had been received from the 

 Britannia Press during the months of August, September and Qctober. 

 Mr. Medlicott was requested to make such arrangements for the satisfac- 

 tory completion of the Catalogue as he thought necessary. 



The Secretary reported that he had heard that Mr. Lydekker was not 

 returning to India and would therefore be unable to undertake the duties 



