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have charge of the Journal, Part I; Pandit Haraprasad Sastri of the 

 Bibliotheca Indica ; and Mr. A. Hogg, of the Coins. 



The President's suggestion that some of the daily newspapers 

 received by the Society should be distributed amongst the Calcutta 

 Hospitals was sanctioned. 



July 1st, Ordinary Meeting. 



Read a letter from Mr. F. E. Pargiter stating that he had under- 

 taken the translation of the Markandeya Purana. 



An exchange of Publications with the Naturforschende Gesellschaft, 

 Danzig, was sanctioned. 



On the recommendation of the Philological Committee, Dr. Hille- 

 brandt's offer to publish in the Bibliotheca Indica the Baudhayaniya 

 Srauta Sutra and the Hiranyakesin Srauta Sutra, was accepted, on the 

 condition that the publication be not proceeded with by him unless he 

 had three complete MSS. of each work. Dr. Hoernle was permitted by 

 the Council to take with him to Europe such of the MSS. in the Society's 

 Library as might be useful in editing these works. 



An application from Mr. E. C. Oliver for the loan of any Chaghatai 

 coins in the Society's Cabinet, could not be complied with. 



In reply to a letter from the Government, North West Provinces 

 and Oudh, asking whether the Society would be willing to publish a 

 report by Mr. W. Hoey, with maps and plans, on the excavations and 

 exhumations at Sahet Mahet in the Gonda District, that Government 

 was asked whether they would publish the Maps and Plans, while the 

 Society undertook to publish the Report. 



A reprint of the Library rules, with list of presentations corrected 

 up to date, was sanctioned. 



Read a letter from the Superintendent, Baptist Mission Press agree- 

 ing to a reduction in the terms for printing the Journals and Pro- 

 ceedings. 



July 29th, Ordinary Meeting. 



An application from the Secretary, Provincial Museum Committee, 

 Lucknow, for complete sets of the Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit Series 

 of the Bibliotheca Indica to be supplied to the Museum Library gratis 

 was granted as far as the series were available. 



Mr. H. Beveridge was appointed to succeed Mr. Beames as Philo- 

 logical Secretary in charge of the Journal, Part I, on the resignation of 

 the latter. 



With reference to the recommendation of the Sub- Committee, dated 

 22nd December 1885 allowing a discount of 25 % in the case of " large 



