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stating that the books sent by the Society were very much damaged by 

 the quarantine authorities in disinfecting them, the Council ordered that 

 the despatch of the Society's publications to Continental Societies should 

 be suspended until the quarantine regulations were relaxed. 



Read letters from the Superintendent, Baptist Mission Press, stating 

 that the charge he would have to make for sewing instead of stitching the 

 Society's Journal would be Rs. 5 per 100 if the Journal were taken by 

 itself, and Rs. 4-8 per 100 for Journal and Proceedings, if the Journal and 

 Proceedings were taken together. The terms first mentioned were 

 accepted. 



With reference to a letter from Mr. Beames regarding Dr. Mitra'e 

 criticisms on his paper on the History of Orissa, it was resolved that Mr. 

 Beames's note in reply to Dr. Mitra's criticisms should be read at the 

 next meeting of the Society ; and that in future, in the case of an adverse 

 criticism on a paper, if the author be not present to reply to it, the 

 criticism should be sent to him with an invitation to send any reply 

 which he may wish to have published in the Proceedings. The Secre- 

 taries were also instructed to endeavour to obtain abstracts of papers from 

 the authors themselves for publication in the Proceedings. 



The names of Dr. Krishna Dhana Ghosha and Dr. E. Lawrie were 

 ordered to be suspended at the next meeting in accordance with Rule 38. 



Mr. F. W. Peterson was elected member of Council and Honorary 

 Treasurer, subject to the approval of the next meeting of the Society. 



The Secretary stated that he very much doubted whether he would 

 be able to find time to write the history of the Society for the Centenary 

 volume, and suggested that the task should be assigned to some other 

 member. At the request of Council, Dr. Rajendralala Mitra agreed to 

 give a short sketch of the general history of the Society to serve as a 

 preface to the Centenary volume. 



Mr. J. H. Elliott was confirmed in his appointment as Assistant 

 Librarian. 



September 27th. Ordinary Meeting. 



On the recommendation of the Natural History Secretary, an ex- 

 change of Part II of the Journal for the publications of the Vienna 

 Ornithological Society was sanctioned. 



With reference to a letter from the Secretary to the Executive Com- 

 mittee, Calcutta International Exhibition, asking if the Society would 

 exhibit some of its Sanskrit and Persian MSS., it was ordered that a 

 selection of MSS. should be made by the Philological Secretary, and that 

 these should be lent only on condition that they were exhibited in glass 

 cases under lock and key. 



Read a letter from Pandit Moheschandra Nyayaratna, Officiating 



