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First, the sales made by Messrs. Triibner and Co. in 1886, are only 

 about one-fifth of the usual amount, the total sum credited being only 

 £21-1-10, instead of annual average sale proceeds of about a hundred 

 pounds, but no explanation of this fact has been received. The expen- 

 diture side has also been largely swelled by the cost of plates for Part 



II. of the Journal, which has amounted to £88-9-0. 



The sales of the Society's Publications effected by Messrs. Triibner 

 and Co. in 1886 amounted to only £14-19-4^, against the sum of 

 £49-5-9 in 1885, while the sales of the Bibliotheca Indica only reach- 

 ed £6-3-6 in 1886, against the sum of £59-9-3 in 1885. 



The numbers of copies of parts of the Journal, of the Proceedings 

 and of the Bibliotheca Indica sent to Messrs. Triibner and Co. during 

 1887 for sale were 180, 240, and 483 respectively. 



Thirteen invoices of books purchased and of Publications of various 

 Societies sent in exchange were received in 1887. The value of the 

 books purchased in 1887, was £116-5-1. 



The amount of £129-8-9, the balance in the hands of the late Mr. 

 Grote on account of the publications of Atkinson's Lepidoptera, Part 



III, was made over to Messrs. Triibner and Co. in March 1887. 



Library. 



The total number of printed volumes or parts of volumes added to 

 the Library during the year was 2,171, of which 797 were purchased, and 

 1374 presented. 



Of the Catalogues of Manuscripts reported last year as in progress, 

 the Burmese Catalogue has been completed, and is in the press. 



A Manuscript of the Biydz-ush-Shuard, a history of Persian poetry, 

 was purchased at a cost of Rs. 40. 



Publications. 



There were published for the year ten numbers of the Proceedings 

 containing 275 pages of letter-press, and 4 plates ; three numbers of the 

 Journal, Parti, containing 173 pages of letter-press and 10 plates ; and 

 four numbers of the Journal, Part II, containing 376 pages of letter- 

 press and 15 plates. There was also published a fifth part of the Journal 

 Part II for 1886, after the report for that year had been issued. 

 There were also published during the year the Indexes to the Journal 

 Part II for the years 1884, 1885 and 1886. 



Building. 



The expenditure on the building during the year was Rs. 2,428, of 

 which Rs. 1,214 was for renewing decayed beams and burgahs in the 

 roof, and Rs. 1,214 for half-terracing the roof. 



