1891.] Annual Report. 33 



suggesting that the attention of the Editor should be drawn thereto, 

 was confirmed. 



July 31s^, Ordinary Meeting. 



The Photographic Society of India reported acceptance of the con- 

 ditions prescribed by the Council for renting the two rooms they had 

 applied for, and permission was given to make the necessary alterations 

 to suit the rooms to their requirements. 



Dr. Prain was informed in reply to a request to pay for the print- 

 ing of his paper on "An additional species of Ellipanthus," and the 

 plate to accompany it, that there would be no objection to his printing 

 the plate, but that the cost of printing the text would be borne by the 

 Society. 



It was decided on the report of the Philological Committee not to 

 express an opinion as to the character of the Sanskrit works published 

 by Mahadev Chinmaji Apte, but that copies of the works should be pur- 

 chased for the Society's Library. 



A recommendation by the Finance Committee to modify Rule 70, 

 so as to allow of Admission Fees being treated as ordinary income, 

 instead of being invested in the Permanent Reserve Fund, was referred 

 to Resident Members in accordance with Rule 64, (a). 



The Government Promissory Notes amounting to Rs. 1,20,000, 

 belonging to the Society standing in the 4^ per cent, loans of 1878 and 

 1879, which mature on 15th September 1893, were authorized to be 

 transferred to the 4 per cent, loan of 1854-55, in terms of the Notifica- 

 tion of the Government of India offering payment in cash of the ad- 

 ditional J per cent, interest up to date of maturity. 



August 28th, Ordinary Meeting. 



The Director of the National Society of Natural Sciences and 

 Mathematics, Cherbourg, was informed in reply to an application for 

 the Journal, Part T, which had not been received since 1886 that it had 

 not been sent, as it treats of Philology and Antiquities. 



Sanction was given to an expenditure of Rs. 35 for the purchase 

 of a copper plate inscription found at Ashraffpur in the Dacca district. 

 A description of the plate has been published in the Journal. 



It was resolved on the report of the Finance Committee to revert 

 to the old rates of changes for the Journals and Proceedings of the 

 Society, and that circulars of the Bibliotheca Indica publications should 

 be prepared in Urdu, Devanagri and Bengali characters in order to 

 make the works better known to the educated classes. 



A paper by Saratchandra Mitra on the " Diseases of Animals in 

 Captivity " was declined with thanks. 



