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ler expressing their willingness to allow themselves to be nominated 

 Members o£ the Council for 1880. 



The Council sanctioned the recommendation of the Secretary that 

 Islam Khan's pension should be continued for life, and ordered that all 

 such pensions should be paid from the Piddington Pension Fund. 



The recommendation of the Finance Committee that one of the col- 

 lecting Sircars should be discharged, and that the other should be retained 

 on a commission of 5 per cent., was agreed to. 



The programme for the Annual Meeting and the Annual Report were 

 read and approved. 



February 26th, Ordinary Meeting. 



The Members of the Finance and other Committees were elected. 



Mr. C. H. Dreyer's offer to complete the Library Catalogue for 

 Es. 600 was accepted. 



Dr. A. F. It. Hoernle's proposals with regard to the rates paid for 

 printing and editing the Bibliotheca Indica were agreed to, with an amend- 

 ment proposed by Dr. Mitra, that the rate at which editing work is to be 

 paid for be fixed simply as it is difficult or easy. It was also directed that 

 Dr. Hoernle's memorandum on the subject should be printed for the use 

 of the Council and of the Finance Committee. 



The recommendation of the Finance Committee that 2 pairs of book- 

 cases should be purchased for Rs. 1,000 was ordered to be referred back to 

 the Committee for reconsideration with the annual accounts. 



April 1st, Ordinary Meeting. 



A letter was read from the Superintendent, Baptist Mission Press, 

 asking if the printing of the Isabah is to be continued ; also a minute by 

 Dr. Hoernle recommending that the work should be continued, and stating 

 that Mr. O'Kinealy had kindly offered to superintend its printing. The 

 minutes of the Council on a memorandum by the Philological Secretary 

 on the affairs of the O. P. Fund were also read. After a prolonged discus- 

 sion on the advisability of adopting the proposals made by the Philological 

 Committee for regulating the selection of works for publication in the 

 Bibliotheca Indica, it was resolved that formal sanction should be given 

 to the publication of nine works (the names of which have been given in 

 the Proceedings for May 1880), and that it should be left to the Philolo- 

 gical Secretary to determine the rate at which each should be published. 



An exchange of publications with the Stockholm Academy of History 

 and Antiquities was sanctioned. 



