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St. Petersburg : — Imperial Library. 



: — Imperial Academy of Sciences. 



Stockholm : — Eoyal Academy of Sciences. 



Trieste : — Academy. 



United States, America : — Greological Survey of the Territories. 



Vienna : — Imperial Geological Institute. 



-Anthropological Society. 



-Zoological Society. ^ 



: — Imperial Academy of Sciences. 



Washington : — Smithsonian Institution. 



: — Commissioners of the Department of Agriculture. 



Absteact of Peoceedings oe the Council dtjeij^g 1876. 

 January 2^th. Special Meeting. 



A letter was read from the Hon. E. C. Bayley, C. S. I., regarding 

 certain proposals of Government for the grant to the Society of Es. 1,50,000 

 in lieu of the rooms assigned to the Society in the New Museum Building 

 under the Museum Act, and for the repeal of the Act in question, except in 

 so far as it provides for the representation of the Society on the Board of 

 Trustees, the separate notation of the Society's collections and the ultimate 

 reversion of the Society's collections to the Society in the case of the deter- 

 mining of the Trust. 



The Council agreed that Mr. Bayley be requested to communicate 

 with the Viceroy and express the general willingness of the Council to 

 accept the proposals of the Government, subject to further knowledge of 

 the. proposed changes when definitely settled. 



January 2*1 th. Ordinary Meeting. 



The Secretary reported that the Sub- Committee appointed by the 

 Finance Committee to ascertain approximately the cost of establishment 

 and of premises, that would be required for carrying out the object of the 

 O. P. Fund in an efficient manner, recommend that the present charges 

 for establishment should be continued, as the Secretaries were of opinion 

 that the work could not be efficiently carried on otherwise. 



The recommendation was approved. 



Colonel Gastrell suggested the discontinuance of the publication of 

 the Meteorological Observations of the Surveyor General's Office in the Pro- 

 ceedings as Mr. Blanf ord would publish them in his Meteorological Reports. 



The decision of the question was postponed pending the publication of 

 the returns by Mr. Blanford. 



February ^th. Special Meeting. 

 At this Meeting the draft of the New Museum Act was taken into 

 consideration and was approved by the Council on behalf of the Society so 



