1884.] Annual Report. 29 



April 26tk. Ordinary Meeting. 



A letter from Major W. F. Prideaux suggesting that the Society 

 should support a recommendation to Government to obtain a series of 

 electrotypes of Indian Coins prepared from the originals in the British 

 Museum, for the Indian Museum in Calcutta, was ordered to be forward- 

 ed to the Trustees of the Indian Museum with the intimation that the 

 Council considered Major Prideaux's suggestion as practicable and use- 

 ful. 



Read a letter from Dr. D. D. Cunningham regretting that owing to 

 press of work he would be unable to take up the Natural History Secretary- 

 ship. Mr. Medlicott was requested to ascertain whether Babu P. N. 

 Bose would be willing to undertake the duties of Natural History Secre- 

 tary with special reference to the preparation of the account of the work 

 of the Society in Natural History and Physical Science in connection 

 with the Society's Centenary. 



The Secretary reported that, the Rules of the Society being out of 

 print, he had ordered a reprint of 300 copies, revised up to date. 



May 31st. Ordinary Meeting. 



A letter from H. E. Count Melchior de Longay, President of the 

 Hungarian Academy of Sciences, thanking the Society for having pre- 

 sented the Academy with the 3 original letters of Csoma de Koros, was 

 ordered to be read to the Society at its next meeting. 



A letter was read from Mr. Holwell of Quebec asking if the monu- 

 ment erected by his great-grandfather, Governor Holwell, to the memory 

 of the sufferers in the Black Hole was still in existence. Copies of the 

 numbers of the Journal and Proceedings containing accounts of Mr. 

 Bayne's excavations were ordered to be presented to Mr. Holwell. 



The Philological Secretary submitted a statement showing the ex- 

 penses incurred in the purchase of coins and suggested that the money 

 obtained by the sale of duplicate coins should be used for the purchase 

 of new ones. This suggestion was adopted. 



The minutes of the Council were read on a Memorandum drawn up 

 by Mr. J. Westland on the state of the Society's accounts and in accord- 

 ance with the order passed in circulation the Treasurer submitted a list 

 of old outstandings still shown in the Society's books and also a state- 

 ment drawn up by Mr. Bion showing the present state of the Society's 

 account with Messrs. Triibner and Co. All the old outstandings under 

 Rs. 10 were ordered to be written off, and all debts of more than 5 years' 

 standing to be cancelled. 



The publication in the Bibliotheca Indica of 5 new works, recom- 

 mended by the Philological Committee, was sanctioned. 



