44 Annual Beport. [Feb. 



JVove7nher Srd. Ordinary Meeting. 



An offer o£ Professor E. Cowell of Cambridge to publish a translation 

 of the Sutras of Sandilya in the Bibliotheca Indica Series was accepted with 

 thanks. 



Mr. B. H. Hodgson having called the attention of the Council to the 

 neglected state of the MSS. collected by him in Nepaul during 1824 and 

 1827, and suggested that a catalogue raisonne should be made of them, Dr. 

 Eajendralala Mitra proposed the immediate employment of a pundit on 

 Es. 30 per mensem for the compilation of such a catalogue. 



It was ordered that a grant of Es. 300 should be made to Dr. Mitra for 

 the cataloguing of these MSS., leaving all arrangements to him. 



Eead a letter from the Secretary to the Trustees of the Indian Museum 

 forwarding a copy of an order of the Trustees to the effect that they agree 

 to accept as correct the lists of the collections made over to them by the 

 Asiatic Society as contained in the catalogues made in 1866 by Dr. Stoliczka 

 and Mr. Ball. 



It was ordered that the Trustees be informed that the Society agrees 

 to accept the lists as proposed, and that they be asked to return the So- 

 ciety's copy of the lists duly signed by the Trustees. 



Noisember 20th. Ordinary Meeting. 



Dr. Eajendralala Mitra's proposal that Professor Bala Sastri should 

 receive the Notices of Sanskrit MSS. in place of the late Pandit Eajaram, 

 was sanctioned. 



The Secretary was authorised to purchase furniture for the reading 

 room and to proceed with the immediate erection of the new range of 

 godowns. 



December 8tJi. Special Meeting. 



This meeting was held to consider Major Godwin- Austen's proposal 

 that the Society should give a grant-in-aid to a Zoological Exploration of 

 Tenasserim by Mr. Ossian Limborg — the results of the exploration being 

 published in the Society's Journal. 



The Council ordered that a sum of Es. 500, including the unexpended 

 balance of the Es. 300 granted to the Earth Current Committee, should be 

 placed at the disposal of the promoters of the Tenasserim Zoological Explo- 

 ration. 



On the motion of the Chaieman" the Eeport was unanimously adopted. 



Colonel Thuilliee said — He hoped he might congratulate the Society 

 on the state of its affairs as represented in the report the meeting had just 

 heard read. It was highly satisfactory to find that the finances were in 



