PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



For February, 1877. 



The Annual Meeting of the Asiatic Society was held on Wednesday 

 the 7th February, 1877, at 9 o'clock p. m. 



Col. H. L. Thttillier, C. S, I., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



According to the Bye-Laws of the Society, the Chairman ordered the 

 voting papers to be distributed for the election of Officers and Members of 

 Council for 1877, and appointed Dr. Cayley and Mr. Waldie Scrutineers. 

 The Chaibmajs" then called upon the Secretary to read the Annual Eeport. 



Annual Report for 1876. 



The Council of the Asiatic Society in submitting the Annual Eeport 

 for 1876, have the satisfaction of exhibiting an unprecedently prosperous 

 state of the Society's affairs. The year just passed has been one of the 

 most eventful and important in the history of the Society, and it is to be 

 hoped will mark a new era in its progress. 



Under an agreement made with Government, the Council, on behalf of 

 the Society, accepted the sum of Rs. 1,50,000 in lieu of the rooms originally 

 assigned to the Society in the New Museum Building, and on comjDletion 

 of the negotiations, arrangements were made for the immediate removal of 

 the Society's Collections to the New Museum. The Society's house is 

 therefore now free from the Museum collections, and for the fii'st time for 

 many years the whole space is available for the more immediate purposes o£ 

 the Society. This will enable the Council to assign proper space to the 

 Library, and to make for the comfort of Members other arrangements that 

 have hitherto been impossible. The house has been put in a state of 

 thorough repair, and many improvements have been effected, and the 

 Council feel assured that the arrangement under which the Society remains 

 independent and in possession of their own building will be greatly to the 



