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* Vienna: — K. K. Naturhistorichen Hof museum. 

 * : — Ornithologische Verein. 



* Washington : — Commissioners of the Department of Agriculture. 



* -^* : — Smithsonian Institution. 



§ ; — XJ. S. Army Signal Service. 



* : — United States Geological Survey. 



§ : — U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. 



* Wellington : — New Zealand Institute. 



* Wiirttemberg : — Natural History Society. 



* Yokohama : — Asiatic Society of Japan. 



* : — Deutschen Gesellschaft fiir Natur-und Volkerkunde 



Ostasiens. 



* Zagreb : — Arkeologickoga Druztva. 



Abstract op Peoceedings op Council during 1887. 

 January 27th, Ordiriary Meeting. 



The names of the five Trustees appointed by the Society under the 

 new Indian Museum Act, No. IV of 1887, were furnished to the autho- 

 rities of the Indian Museum with the information that the present list 

 remained unaffected by the new Act. 



On a report from Colonel Waterhouse on the probable cost of print- 

 ing the Photographs, Maps and Plans connected with Mr. Hoey's report 

 on the excavations and exhumations at Sahet Mahet, the estimate of 

 Rs. 1,050 for executing the work by Collotype, was accepted. 



On the recommendation of the President the Zeitschrift fiir Eth- 

 nologie was subscribed for. 



A letter from Syud Mahomed Karrar Husain enquiring whether 

 the Society would purchase any of the MSS. in his Library, a list of 

 which he forwarded, was referred to Dr. Hoernle and Maulavi 

 Kabiruddin. 



The work of supervising the publication of Atkinson's Lepidoptera, 

 undertaken by the late Mr. A. Grote, was entrusted to Mr. W. T. 

 Blanford, while the remittance made by the Society for the purpose was 

 made over in deposit to Messrs. Triibner and Co. 



Dr. Hoernle submitted a report of his attendance at the Interna- 

 tional Congress of Orientalists at Vienna on behalf of the Society. 



On a proposal by the Secretary that the Society asks for a Charter 

 enabling it to confer the title of Fellow of the Asiatic Society, Bengal, 

 upon its distinguished members, it was ordered that the old papers on 

 the question, when it was raised before, be brought out. 



On the motion of the President, a resolution was passed " that the 

 Society in its corporate capacity present an address to Her Majesty on 



