28 Annual Report. [Feb., 



On the recommendation of the Finance Committee, it was ordered 

 that at the close of every year the Sanskrit MSS., Oriental Publications 

 and other Funds should be each credited with a year's interest on the 

 minimum monthly balance in their favour during the year. 



March 29th. Ordinary Meeting. 



Read a letter from the Societe Imperiale d'Archeologie, Moscow, 

 asking for drawings and descriptions of all bronze implements, &c, found 

 in India, and offering to exchange publications. The letter was ordered 

 to be made over to the Trustees of the Indian Museum. 



A letter from the Revenue Department of the Government of Ben- 

 gal, asking for any information the Society may be able to furnish on the 

 subject of the distribution &c, of locusts, was referred to the Natural 

 History Secretary. 



A letter was read from the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences, 

 asking for a facsimile of the Kawi inscription mentioned at page 68 of 

 the Journal, Vol. XVII, and also of any other inscriptions in the Museum 

 which may be likely to refer to the history of the Malay Peninsula and 

 Archipelago. It was resolved that application be made to the Trustees 

 of the Indian Museum with a view to obtaining copies of the inscriptions 

 referred to. 



A letter was read from the Superintendent, Baptist Mission Press, 

 stating that owing to the length of time the printing of Dr. Mitra's 

 Nepalese Buddhist Literature had been in hand, some of the earlier forms 

 had been so injured that he could not complete the full number of copies 

 of the work, but offering to pay for the copies short of the full number 

 if the Council thought he should do so. Under the circumstances of the 

 case, the Council considered that the Baptist Mission Press should be 

 required to pay only half the cost of the copies short. 



A proposal made by Mr. G. A. Grierson and Dr. A. F. R. Hoernle 

 that a Congress of Orientalists should be held in Calcutta in connection 

 with the Centenary celebration was considered to be impracticable in the 

 present state of the Society's finances, and under the difficulties that 

 would arise owing to the forthcoming International Exhibition. 



Correspondence was submitted regarding a case of books despatched 

 to Messrs. Triibner and Co., per S. S. " Nottinghill," in August 1881, 

 and never delivered, and it was decided that the Society's Agents should 

 be instructed to decline to accept the proposed compromise of half the 

 claim ; but, if legal proceedings would be necessary to obtain the whole, 

 j of the sum could be accepted. 



The Treasurer reported that he had purchased Rs. 5000 of Govern- 

 ment 4% paper. 



