30 Annual Beport. [Feb. 



following charges for ** doing up " Supplements to the Journal, viz., 

 Rupees 5 for numbers not exceeding, or only slightly exceeding 100 

 pages ; Rupees 8 for numbers extending to 200 pages, or thereabouts ; 

 and Rupees 3-8 for numbers equal to an average Proceedings, or less. 



The sura of Rs. 2,500 was assigned to Part II of the Journal, and 

 Rupees 1,600 to Part I, as a provisional arrangement for the current year. 



It was decided that the Trustees of the Indian Museum should be 

 asked to pay one-third of the cost for printing the lists of Insects of 

 the Oriental Region in consideration of 100 extra copies of the lists 

 being supplied to the Trustees. 



The various Committees for 1890 were appointed. 



The Philological Committee having recommended that no new 

 works should be sanctioned for publication in the Bibliotheca Indica 

 for the present, an intimation to that effect was made to Pandit Satya 

 Vrata Samasrami with reference to his application to edit the Aitareya 

 Brahmana. 



A proposal by Babu Asutosh Mukhopadhyaya to publish certain 

 Astronomical works, was referred to the Philological Committee. 



Babu Gaurdas Bysack was informed with reference to his applica- 

 tion for aid in tracing the history of Calcutta to the earliest possible 

 period, that the Council, while sympathizing with his objects, were un- 

 able to materially forward his views. 



27th March, Ordinary Meeting. 



Permission was given to Dr. Gustav Oppert to purchase a copy of 

 all the Sanskrit works published by the Society at the same rate of dis- 

 count as allowed to Booksellers. 



The loan of the Persian manuscript TazJcirah-i-Al-i-Daud in the 

 Society's library was sanctioned to Dr. Oskar Mann of Berlin, through 

 the German Consulate General in Calcutta. 



Bdbu Saratchandra Das was allowed to take to Darjeeling two 

 Tibetan Xylographs for the purpose of getting them tabulated in con- 

 nection with the Tibetan Dictionary which he is compiling for Govern- 

 ment. 



The Government of India was informed that the Society was not 

 in a position to give an opinion as to the merits of Dr. Leitner's Hunza 

 and Nagyr Hand-book. 



An offer from Otto Harrassowitz of Leipzig to act as Commission 

 Agent to the Society for the sale of the Bibliotheca Indica publications 

 for Germany and the Continent was declined. 



An exchange of publications with the Geographical Society of 

 Leipzig was approved. 



