34i Annua/ Report. [Feb. 



April 29th, Ordinary Meeting. 



On the resignation of Mr. J. Crawfurd, Mr. A. Pedler was elected 

 Member of Council, General Secretary and Trustee of the Indian Museum. 



A memorandum by the President on the advisability of increasing the 

 number of the Council was read, and the proposed alteration was agreed to. 

 The necessary modifications in the rules were ordered to be proposed at the 

 next meeting of the Society. 



An exchange of Part I of the Journal for the Zagreb Archaeological 

 Society's publications was agreed to. 



The Philological Secretary submitted a statement of rules and rates 

 connected with the publication of the Bibliotheca Tndica, Journal and Pro- 

 ceedings, which he had prepared for the press in accordance with the order 

 of Council. Fifty copies were ordered to be printed. 



The rates of remuneration at which the newly appointed editors of 

 the Bibliotheca Indica are to be paid were agreed upon. As Mr. C. H. 

 Tawney refused to accept any remuneration, it was ordered that he should 

 be presented with 30 copies of his work. 



The Philological Secretary, reported that he had made over the print- 

 ing of Mr. Dames's Baloochi Grammar to the Baptist Mission Press, and 

 that he had written to the Bombay and Punjab Governments asking for 

 aid in printing the work. 



The Philological Secretary was asked to institute an enquiry as to 

 whether it was necessary to have a person in charge of the vernacular 

 portion of the Library and to report at a future meeting. 



On the resignation of Mr. Beverley as Treasurer and Mr. H. F. Blan- 

 ford as Member of Council, Mr. J. C. Douglas was elected Member of 

 Council and Honorary Treasurer. 



May 29th, Ordinary Meeting. 



An exchange of publications with the Linnean Society of Bordeaux 

 and with the United Service Institution of India was sanctioned. 



Letters were read from the Secretaries to the Governments of Bombay 

 and of the Panjab subscribing for 5 and 50 copies respectively of Mr. 

 Dames's Baloochi Grammar. A letter was directed to be written to the 

 Secretary to the Foreign Department, Government of India, asking 

 Government to subscribe for copies of the same work. 



An order was passed that books from the Library should be issued on 

 the requisition of the officer in charge of the Surveyor General's Office, 

 Calcutta, on the same terms as to Members. 



A recommendation of the Finance Committee that in future their Meet- 

 ings should be held on the 4th of each month, except when that date falls 



