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London Agency. 



The statement furnished by Messrs. Triibner and Co. of their ac- 

 count with the Society for 1885, showed a debit Balance of £107-8-8f j 

 towards meeting which a remittance of £100 was made in Septem- 

 ber last. This unusually large and unfavourable balance was chiefly due 

 to payments made by Messrs. Triibner for Plates for the Journal, Part II, 

 amounting to £91-12-0. 



The sales of the Society's Publications effected by them during 1885 

 amounted to £49-5-9 ; and of the Bibliotheca Indica to £59-9-3. 



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

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

 1886 for sale were 481, 300, and 1,659 respectively. 



Eleven Invoices of Books purchased and of Publications of various 

 Societies sent in exchange were received during 1886. The value of the 

 Books purchased amounted to £106-19-3. 



Library. 



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

 the Library, during the year was 2,281, of which 895 were purchased and 

 1,386 were presented. 



A manuscript of the Tarikh-i-Firoz Shahi was presented to the 

 Society by the Royal Asiatic Society of London on behalf of the late Mr. 

 Edward Thomas. 



Four Catalogues of the Sanskrit, the Arabic and Persian, the 

 Tibetan, and the Burmese Manuscripts are in progress. 



Publications. 



There were published during the year ten Numbers of the Proceed- 

 ings containing 181 pages of letter-press ; three Numbers of the Journal, 

 Part I, containing 203 pages of letter-press and 9 Plates ; and three 

 Numbers of the Journal, Part II, containing 298 pages of letter-press 

 and 11 Plates ; and a fourth, bringing up the number of pages of matter 

 and of plates for the year to a total of 412 and 19 respectively, is in 

 type and will be issued shortly. 



Stock was taken towards the end of the year of the Publications 

 for sale in the Store Room consisting of the Society's Publications and 

 the Bibliotheca Indica. 



Building. 



The expenditure on the building during the year was Rs. 393 ; of 

 which Rs. 378 was for renewing beams and burgahs in the roof over the 

 staircase, and Rs. 15 for refixing a lightning conductor. 



