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A letter was read from the Maharaja of Shahpura asking why the 

 Society had sent him the Bibliotheca Indica. The Secretary reported 

 that, when the Bibliotheca Indica had first been sent to him, the Maha- 

 raja had acknowledged the receipt of the circular accompanying the books 

 explaining the circumstances under which they had been sent and had 

 thanked the Society for putting him on the distribution list. It was 

 ordered that the Maharaja's name should be struck off from the free 

 distribution list. 



The acceptance by the Philological Secretary of an offer made by 

 Pandit Ramnath Tarkaratna of the loan of a MS. of Parasara for the use 

 of the Editor of that work in the Bibliotheca Indica series, was sanction- 

 ed. 



At the suggestion of Dr. Mitra it was ordered that mention should 

 be made in the Proceedings that the Society was endeavouring to obtain 

 the loan or a transcript of the Cairo MS. of the Isabah. 



Read a letter from the Secretary to the Trustees, Indian Museum, 

 stating that the Museum authorities had resolved not to move in the 

 matter of the Kawi and Singapore inscriptions, asked for by the Batavian 

 Society of Arts and Sciences, till Mr. J. F. Fleet, the Government Epi- 

 grapher, visited Calcutta. 



The thanks of the Council were passed to Mr. J. Eliot for his services 

 as Treasurer on his tendering his resignation of that post, and it was 

 resolved that Mr. F. W. Peterson should be asked to take his place. 



At the recommendation of the Secretary, Mr. J. H. Elliott was ap- 

 pointed Assistant Librarian, on trial, in the place of Mr. A. D. Tiery who 

 had resigned. 



The Secretary reported that no meeting had taken place in the first 

 Wednesday in July as a quorum had not been present. The Secretary 

 was requested to send a circular to all Resident members drawing atten- 

 tion to the difficulty of obtaining a quorum. 



August 30th. Ordinary Meeting. 



In accordance with Rule 7, six gentlemen who had been proposed 

 and seconded at the last meeting of the Society were ballotted for and 

 elected Ordinary Members. 



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

 Bengal, Revenue Department, asking if the Society would be willing to 

 assist the Government by acting as a numismatic authority for the pur- 

 pose of advising the Government as to the value and interest attaching 

 to coins found in Bengal. It was resolved that the Government should 

 be informed that the Society will gladly assist with its advice in such 

 matters. 



With reference to a letter from the Society Giologique de Belgique 



