30 Annual. Report. [Feb., 



Balm P. N. Bose was elected member of the Council and Natural 

 History Secretary subject to the approval of the next General Meeting. 



It was ordered that the 'alterations and changes made in the Rules 

 since the general revision in 1876 should be embodied in the text of the 

 reprint, with footnotes giving the dates of the changes. 

 June 28th. Ordinary Meeting. 



A letter was read from the Under-Secretary to the Government of 

 Bengal, Revenue Department, stating that the Lieutenant Governor 

 approves of the way in which the Government grants for Oriental Publi- 

 cations and for the Conservation of Sanskrit MSS. have been applied. 



A revised distribution list received from the Home Department 

 through the Government of Bengal for the Notices of Sanskrit manu- 

 scripts was ordered to be compared with the revised list submitted by the 

 Society and the result reported to the Council. 



With reference to a letter from the Superintendent of the Baptist 

 Mission Press stating that the proposed change of sewing instead of 

 stitching in the doing up of the Proceedings would involve an extra 

 charge of Re. 1 per 100, the Council was of opinion that the Proceedings 

 should be properly done up within the contract price. 



Read a letter from Mr. J. Beames complaining that whilst only a 

 brief notice of the contents of his paper on the History of Orissa was 

 published in the Proceedings, Dr. Mitra's criticisms were given in full, and 

 requesting that the MS. of his paper may be returned if the Society 

 does not intend to publish it. It was resolved that Mr. Beames's paper 

 should be published in full in the Journal with a postscript by the 

 author, at his option, in reply to Dr. Mitra's remarks. 



At the suggestion of Dr. A. Sprenger it was resolved that applica- 

 tion should be made for the loan of the copy of the Isabah in the Khedi- 

 vian Library at Cairo ; or, if this was not feasible, that enquiries be made 

 with a view to getting it transcribed. 



On the recommendation of the Philological Secretary, Colonel A. C. 

 Toker was elected a member of the Philological Committee and Mr. 

 Amir Ali a member of the History and Archeeology Committee. 



Permission was granted to Major J. Waterhouse to copy the paint- 

 ings of Sir William Jones and Warren Hastings to be reproduced by 

 heliogravure with a view to their being published in the Society's Cente- 

 nary Volume. 



July 26th. Ordinary Meeting. 



A letter was read from Messrs. Triibner and Co., stating that they 

 had been unable to recover the full value of the contents of the case of 

 books lost in the S. S. " Nottinghill" but that, acting under the instruc- 

 tions they had received, they had accepted f of the amount. 



