1877.] Annual Beport. 41 



It was ordered that the question be referred to the Finance Committee 

 with a recommendation that Rs. 1,000 should be given to the Gardens, 

 should the funds admit, irrespective of all questions of privileges to be 

 accorded to the Society. 



A proposal of the Secretary to employ extra clerks for indexing the 

 records of the Society was sanctioned. 



The recommendation of the Finance Committee that the pay of the 

 Duftry Baber Ali should be increased to Rs. 12 per mensem was agreed to. 



April 27th. Ordinary Meeting. 



An exchange of the Society's publications with those of the United 

 States Geological Survey was sanctioned. 



Also with the Civic Museum of Natural History of Genoa. 



On an application from the Assistant Secretary for payment from the 

 Conservation of Sanskrit MSS. Fund for work done on account of the Fund, 

 it was ordered that the Government should be applied to for sanction to the 

 payment of Rs. 150 yearly to the Assistant Secretary on the above account. 



A Sub-Committee was appointed to take the necessary steps for obtain- 

 ing a Memorial of Dr. T. Oldham, late President of the Society. 



Mr. F. Beaufort, C. S., having expressed his wish to withdraw from the 

 Society on leaving India after 37 years' Membership, the Council agreed 

 as a special case, in consideration of the unusually long time Mr. Beaufort 

 had been a Member of the Society, to continue to send him the publications 

 of the Society free of charge. 



The recommendation of the Finance Committee that the consideration 

 of the question of giving a donation of Rs. 1,000 to the Zoological Garden 

 be deferred till it is known what the repairs of the Society's premises will 

 cost, was approved, and the Secretary requested to inform the Honorary 

 Secretary of the Zoological Garden Committee that the Council are unable 

 to give a donation at present as great expense will have to be incurred for 

 the repairs of the Society's premises. 



Messrs. R. Taylor and J. O'Kinealy were appointed Members of the 

 Sub-Committee on the Compounding Fee question in place of Messrs. 

 Geoghegan and Schwendler who had left Calcutta. 



On the recommendation of Mr. Blochmann it was ordered that the 

 publications of the Society should be supplied to M. Schefer who had been 

 appointed to fill the Chair of Oriental Literature in the University of Paris 

 held by the late M. Jules Mohl, an Honorary Member of the Society. 



June 2nd. Ordinary Meeting. * 



The offer of Mr. W. Macgregor to present the Society with 100 copies 

 of his pamphlet on the Prevention of Accidents from Lightning waa 

 accepted with thanks. 



