1881.] Annual Report. 35 



on a Saturday, Sunday or Monday, when the meeting should be held on 

 the following Tuesday, was agreed to. 



It was ordered that the Society's accounts should be kept according 

 to the plan suggested by Mr. Douglas, and a temporary clerk was appointed 

 on Us. 15 a month to help in preparing the accounts. 



July 1st, Ordinary Meeting. 



The Minutes of the Council were read on a memorandum by Dr. R. 

 Mitra on the state of the Oriental Library. A Committee was appointed 

 (1) to enquire whether MSS. and books to the extent indicated, in Dr. 

 Mitra's Memo, have disappeared and to ascertain, if possible, in what way 

 this loss has occurred, (2) to report how far the MSS. have been cata- 

 logued, and (3) to suggest u suitable arrangements for the safe custody of 

 the MSS. in the future. 



July 29th, Ordinary Meeting. 



A letter was read from the Secretary to the Government of India, 

 Foreign Department, subscribing for 40 copies of Mr. Dames's Baloochi 

 Grammar. 



A letter was read from Dr. T. R. Lewis tendering his resignation as 

 Member of the Council, and it was resolved that Mr. H. F. Blanford 

 should be re-appointed Member of Council in his place. 



A letter was read from the Private Secretary to the Viceroy, stating 

 that Lord Ripon accepts the post of Patron of the Society. 



An exchange of the Proceedings for the publications of the Cassel 

 Society of Natural History was sanctioned, and an application from the 

 Editor of the Zeitschrift fur Wissenschaftliche Geographie, for an ex- 

 change, was declined. 



The recommendation of the Oriental Library Committee to appoint 

 temporarily aMunshiand Pandit each on Rs. 35 per mensem, was agreed to. 



August 26t7i, Ordinary Meeting. 



Mr. R. W. Nicholson, Lt.-Col. M. G. Clerk, Babus Benod Behary 

 Mullick and Sib Chunder Nag and Khalif M. Hassan were elected ordi- 

 nary members of the Society. 



The Minutes of the Council were read on a letter from Dr. R. Mitra 

 forwarding 2 bills for the editing arid printing of his Catalogue of the 

 MSS. in the Library of H. H. the Maharaja of Bikaneer. It was ordered 

 that Dr Mitra's letter with the 2 bills should be forwarded to Government ; 

 and that, with reference to the paragraph in the preface of the Catalogue in 

 which Dr. Mitra states that he has worked with imperfect materials, Gov- 



