1888.] Annual Report. 35 



Read tlie minutes of the members of the Council, in circulation, 

 relating to the erection of an iron railing to replace that portion of the 

 wall of the Society's premises to be dismantled by the Municipality. 

 The General Secretary also submitted four tenders with designs re- 

 ceived in answer to an advertisement for putting up 160 feet of iron 

 railing and a pair of iron gates. Resolved that it would be desirable 

 to extend the railing along the entire frontage, ?.nd that a Sub- Com- 

 mittee consisting of Colonel Waterhouse, Mr. Pedler and the General 

 Secretary, be appointed to make the best possible arrangements to 

 secure this. 



Read the minutes of the Philological Committee, in circulation, on a 

 memorandum by Mr. Beveridge on the following points : (a) that an 

 Index should be prepared to Major Raverty's translation of the Tabaqdt- 

 i-Ndsiri (b) that the preface to the text of Khafi Khan had never been 

 written and (c) that there are errors in Professor Lowe's translation of 

 the MuntaJchah-ul-Taivdrikh. 



Read the minutes of the Philological Committee in circulation re- 

 garding the purchase of a complete set of Block-prints of the Tibetan 

 TangyuT in 225 volumes at a cost of Rs. 3,000, including cost of car- 

 riage from Tibet. Resolved that the Government of Bengal be applied 

 to for half the purchase money, and for permission to meet the second 

 half out of the Oriental Publication Fund. 



On the minutes of the Philological Committee, in circulation, 

 Colonel Jarre tt was asked to undertake a translation of the Ain-i-Akhari 

 at the rate of Rs. 3 a page. 



The Treasurer reported the receipt of a cheque for Rs. 2,116 from 

 the Collector under Act X of 1870 for the strip of the Society's land 

 taken up at the cost of the Municipality for widening the foot-path in 

 Park Street, being the amount of compensation accepted by the 

 Council. 



On the motion of Nawab Abdul Latif, a Sub- Committee was ap- 

 pointed to examine and report on the damage said to have been caused 

 to some of the MSS. by damp during the repairs. 



October ^Itli, Ordinary Meeting. 



An exchange of publications (Proceedings) with the Sociedacl 

 Cientifica ^''Antonio Alzate,'^ Mexico, was sanctioned. 



Read the minutes of the Philological Committee, in circulation, on a 

 memorandum by Mr. Beveridge pointing out defects in the arrange- 

 ments for publishing text editions of Persian works in the Bibliotheca 

 Indica. 



Read the minutes of the Philological Committee on the question of 

 the publication of the text of the BiyiU-ivsli-Saldtin by Ghuldra Husaiii. 



