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ernment should be reminded that the correspondence on this subject has 

 already been before them. 



September 30th, Ordinary Meeting. 



Messrs. E. M. Sage, and R. O. Lees were elected Ordinary Members 

 of the Society. 



A letter was read from Dr. R. Mitra forwarding 10 copies of his 

 report on the Conservation of Sanskrit MSS. for the past year. 



A request from the Proprietor of the " Asian" that the Society should 

 subscribe for his paper was declined. 



Dr. G-arbe's edition of the text of the Apastamba Srauta Sutra was 

 ordered to be substituted, in the list of publications undertaken by the 

 Society, for Dr. Schroeder's Maitrayani Samhita. 



October 28th, Ordinary Meeting. 



A letter from Dr. T. E. Charles, offering translations of the Nidana 

 and Susruta which he has had prepared at his own expense, to the Society 

 if they will undertake to publish them, was ordered to be referred to the 

 Philological Committee. 



An application from the Natural History Society of Brunswick, for 

 an exchange of publications, was declined. 



The Secretary submitted the report of the Sub-Committee appointed 

 to investigate the condition of the Oriental Library, It was ordered to 

 be circulated to the Members of the Council. 



November 25th, Ordinary Meeting. 



An exchange of publications with the Royal Dublin Society was 

 sanctioned. 



On the recommendation of Mr. H. Rivett-Carnac it was ordered that 

 abstracts of the. proceedings at the meetings of the Society should be 

 published in the daily papers. 



Babu Thakur Dass Banerji was appointed on trial, on Rs. 30 per 

 mensem, to do the work of indexing the old records of the Society. 



It was agreed that all the Journals and Proceedings previously distribu- 

 ted though Messrs. Triibner & Co. should be sent direct by post for the 

 future. 



A pension of Rs. 15 per mensem was allowed to Babu Buddhinath 

 Bysack, the Society's old Cashier. 



December 20th, Ordinary Meeting. 



A letter was read from Mr. H. G. Keene announcing the near comple- 

 tion of Beal's Oriental Biographical Dictionary. 



