1882 ] Annual Report. 35 



Mr. V. Ball was appointed Treasurer in the place of Mr. J. Douglas 

 who had left for England. 



April 28^7^. Ordinary Meeting. 



A letter was read from the Under-Secretary to the Government of 

 Bengal, Revenue Department, stating that the Lieutenant Governor ap- 

 proves of the manner -in which the Government grants to the Oriental 

 Publication and Sanskrit Manuscripts Funds have been spent, and that he 

 accepts the suggestion made that the accounts of the latter fund should, 

 for the future, be submitted to Government once, instead of twice, in the 

 year. 



An exchange of publications with the North-China Branch of the 

 Royal Asiatic Society and the Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore was 

 sanctioned. 



On the resignation of Mr A. Pedler as Honorary Secretary, Member 

 of Council, and Trustee of the Indian Museum, it was resolved that 

 Dr. H. W. M'Cann should be asked to become a Member of the Council 

 and to take up the Secretaryship and that Mr. J. Eliot should be asked to 

 become Trustee of the Indian Museum on behalf of the Society. 



A vote of thanks was given to Mr. A. Pedler for his services as 

 Honorary Secretary, 



The Members of the various Committees for the year 1881 were 

 appointed. 



The aj)pointment of a copyist, on Rs. 15 a month, was sanctioned. 



May 2Qtli. Ordinary Electing. 



An exchange of publications with the Kais. Leopoldinisch-Carolinische 

 Akademie of Halle was sanctioned. 



At the request of the Superintendent, the casts of the inscri^Dtions 

 from the rock-cut Temples of Orissa were ordered to be made over to the 

 Indian Museum. 



A Report submitted by Mr. J. Westland and Col. J. Sconce, the 

 auditors of the Society's accounts for 1880, was ordered to be forwarded 

 to the Treasurer for circulation to the Council with any remarks he may 

 wish to add. 



Dr. A. F. R. Hoernle, Dr. R Mitra, Mr. J. Beames and Mr, C. H. 

 Tawney were requested to select two or three of the Jain MSS. in the 

 Library of His Highness the Maharaja of Bikaneer and to make arrange- 

 ments for having them copied with the assistance of the Maharaja's 

 Pandits, 



Read the Minutes of the Philological Committee on a letter from 

 Professor E. B. Cowell offering for publication in the Bibliotheca Indica 



