32 Aymual Beport. [Feb. 



May 26th, Ordinary Meeting. 



An exchange of publications (Proceedings and Journals) including 

 the back numbers from 1866 to 1886, as far as available, with the Zoolo- 

 gical and Anthropological-Ethnographical Museum of Dresden, was 

 sanctioned. 



An application from the Verein fiir Erdkunde zu Leipzig for an ex- 

 change of publications was declined. 



On Mr. L. De Niceville resigning his seat on the Council and on the 

 Natural History Committee, Mr. J. Beames was asked to accept a seat 

 on the Council. 



A request from Sirdar Lai Triloki Nath Singh that the Council 

 would be good enough to forward his work on Magic Squares, entitled 

 J3huvanesa-an7ca-praJcdsa, to Her Majesty the Queen, to whom he had de- 

 dicated the work, was declined. 



A suggestion by General Maclagan whether it would not be an ad- 

 vantage to revert to the former mode of issuing the Journal on a fixed 

 date, containing such papers as were ready, with the Proceedings, in- 

 stead of dividing the Journal into Parts I. and II., was declined. 



A proposal by Babu Asutosh Mukhopadhaya to adopt a new rule 

 in connection with the rule 24(X then under consideration, to the effect 

 that Foreign members who had compounded, on becoming Resident 

 members should, after payment of the usual annual contribution for 5 

 years, be exempted from any further payment, was declined. 



An application from Professor W. H. Lowe, Cambridge, to under- 

 take a translation of the Persian work Khafi Khan on a remuneration 

 at the rate of 2 shillings to the rupee was declined ; and it was resolved 

 that any proposal to pay for editing and other work done for the Society 

 for the Bibliotheca Indica Series in England, at the exchange of 2 shill- 

 ings per rupee, could not be entertained. 



On the General Secretary reporting the receipt from the Collector 

 under the Land Acquisition Act, of a notice regarding a strip of the 

 Society's land about to be taken up under Act X. of 1870 for widenino- 

 the foot-path in Park Street, it was resolved that the Secretary appear 

 before the Collector to defend the Society's position in the matter, and 

 to ask for an adequate remuneration to meet the expenses of patting up 

 a handsome iron railing. 



June SOth, Ordinary Meeting. 



Read a letter from Mr. J. Beames declining the offer of a seat on 

 the Council. 



Read a letter from the Secretary to the Government of Beno-al 

 acknowledging receipt of the statements showing the receipts and dis- 



