1891.] Aimual Report. 35 



An application from the Societe Botanique Bavaroise, Bavaria, for 

 an exchange of publications was declined with thanks. 



The thanks of the Council were conveyed to Mr. V. A. Smith for 

 his suggestion to obtain greater punctuality in issuing the Society's 

 Journals, and he was informed that arrangements to that effect were 

 being made. 



The report of the Sub-Committee appointed to revise the rules 

 relating to the procedure for collecting arrears of subscriptions and 

 payment of subscriptions annually in advance, was taken into considera- 

 tion. 



November 21th, Ordinary Meeting. 

 Applications from the Museo de la Plata, Buenos Aires, and the 

 Entomological Society of Ontario, for exchange of publications, were 

 referred to the Natural History Committee. 



It was decided to discontinue the publication of the Catalogues of 

 Oriental Insecta, which had been issuing as a Supplement to the 

 Journal, Part II. 



Read a letter from the Chancellor Imperial and Royal Austro- 

 Hungarian Consulate, Calcutta, forwarding at the request of the 

 Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Vienna, invitations for the second Inter- 

 national Ornithological Congress to be held at Budapest in May, 1891. 



Permission was given to the Photographic Society of India to store 

 their exhibition pictures in an unused room on the ground floor for a 

 short time whilst the building in which the exhibition is to be held is 

 being got ready. 



The Minutes of the Members of Council on a note by the President 

 proposing to invest a sum of Rs. 50,000 out of the Permanent Reserve 

 Fund of the Society in securities bearing a higher rate of interest were 

 taken into consideration, and it was determined to recommend to the 

 Society that the amount should be invested in Municipal or Port Trust 

 Debentures. 



The publication of the translation of Tuzuh-i-Jahangiriy which had 

 been undertaken by the Rev. W. H. Lowe of Cambridge, was ordered 

 to be stopped, only one fasciculus has been issued. 



Intimation was given to the Calcutta Public Library that the pre- 

 sentation of the Society's Journal and Proceedings wonld be discon- 

 tinued. 



Sanction was accorded to an expenditure of Rs. 30 for preparing 

 an index to the Catalogue of Insecta of the Oriental Region. 



December 18^A, Ordinary Meeting. 

 Read a letter from the Government of Bengal conveying the cordial 



