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July 2,St}i. Ordinary 3£eeting, 



A stone slab bearing an inscription, presented to the Society by Mr. F. 

 C. Black, was ordered to be acknowledged with thanks. 



Messrs. Mackintosh, Burn & Co.'s estimate for Rs. 850 for repairing 

 the road in the Society's compound and raising the gate, was accepted. 



August 26ih, Ordinary Meeting. 



Mr. H. M. Percival was elected an Ordinary Member of the Society. 



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

 Bengal conveying the Lieutenant-Governor's approval of the manner in 

 which the Government grants on account of the Oriental Publication and 

 Sanskrit Manuscripts Funds have been ap23lied. 



The Secretary reported that the bust of the late Mr. Blochmann 

 had been received, and requested instructions as to its disposal. The 

 Secretary was requested to ascertain whether the bust could with safety be 

 placed on the upper floor and to make enquiries as to the cost of a suitable 

 pedestal. 



An exchange of the Proceedings and Journal, Part II, for the Journal 

 of the K. Natuurkundige Vereeniging in Nederlandsch Indie was sanc- 

 tioned. 



A letter was read from Professor Wright of Cambridge expressing 

 his thanks to the Society for appointing him to edit the Naqaid of Jerir 

 and el Ferazdaq in the Bibliotheca Indica, but regretting that he will not 

 be able to do so for a year or two, owing to other engagements. The 

 Philological Secretary was requested to inform Professor Wright that the 

 Society had no objection to his commencing the work at his own con- 

 venience. 



Mr. C, J. Lyall's offer to edit for the Bibliotheca Indica the Arabic 

 poem Lamiyyet-el-Arab was accepted with thanks. 



A letter was read from Mr. E. B. Cowell, stating that Mr W H. Lowe 

 agrees to prepare a translation of the 2nd volume of Abdul-Kadir's Mun- 

 takhab-ul-Tawarikh and to publish the work in Calcutta, for a fee of 

 Es. 2 per page. This arrangement was sanctioned. 



Eead the Minutes of the Council regarding additions to be made to 

 the distribution list of the Bibliotheca Indica. It was resolved that the 

 extended distribution list should be used in the future ; and that the 

 Foreign Office should be requested to give such information as will assist in 

 framing a list of native Rajahs and Chiefs to whom the publications of 

 the Bibliotheca Indica may be distributed gratuitously. 

 Septemler 22nd. Ordinary Meeting. 



Mr. Chr. J. Bandow was elected an ordinary Member of the Society. 



A request of the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences that they 



