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the erection of au iron railing : also, the General Secretary submitted 

 an estimate by a Contractor for Rs. 4,348 for putting up an iron 

 railing, two pairs of gates, a Durwan's lodge, and making a new carriage 

 roadway : Resolved that the Treasurer and the General Secretary be 

 empowered to contract at a rate not exceeding the above sum for the 

 whole work, as detailed. 



Maulavi Abd-ul-Haq Abid was appointed to edit the text of the 

 Biydz-ush-SaUtin, by Ghulam Husain. 



Professor Cowell's proposal to prepare a translation of Khafi-Khan 

 was sanctioned. 



Pandit Haraprasad Shastri was appointed to edit the BrUiaddharma 

 Tar ana. 



Babu Sarat Chandra Das was appointed to edit the Bodhisattvd- 

 vaddna Kaljjalatd in Sanskrit and Tibetan. 



A MS. of the lUydz-ush-sWuard — a history of Persian Poetry (iu- 

 complete) was purchased. 



An examination of the beams and burgahs on the ground floor was 

 ordered. 



December 29tli, Ordinary Meeting. 



An exchange of publications with the Linnean Society of New 

 South Wales was sanctioned. 



A copy of a forthcoming work by Dr. E. Bonavia on the cultivated 

 Orano-es and Lemons of India and Ceylon was subscribed for. 



An offer from the Gliih de Engenharia of Rio de Janeiro for an 

 exchano-e of publications was declined. 



A copy of a forthcoming work entitled BScJiercJies Anthropologiques 

 duns le Gaucase, was subscribed for. 



On a letter from Mr. F. E. Pargiter ofEering to resign the work of 

 translating the Markandeya Purana, on the ground that he would be 

 unable to furnish annotations as pointed out by the Philological Secre- 

 tary, it was resolved that Mr. Pargiter be asked to publish a translation 

 without notes. 



The University of Breslau was placed on the list of institutions 

 entitled to receive the Bibliotheca Indioa publications. 



The General Secretary reported the result of his enquiries as to 

 the rates charged for advertisements by other publishers. 



The Contractor's Bill for Rs. 2,428 as sanctioned in April last, 



was passed. 



The following amounts were ordered to be written off : — Rs. 9, 

 standing against the name of the late Babu Girijabhusan Mnkherji, 

 ordinary member : Rs. 90 and Rs. 77 standing against the names of 



