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orders" for " Publications " it was decided that " large orders " should 

 mean orders for Rs. 50 and upwards, and " Publications " should mean 

 only the Bibliotheca Indica and not the Proceedings and Journals. 



On the recommendation of the Finance Committee the following 

 periodicals were ordered to be discontinued after the end of the period 

 subscribed for : — Publishers' Circular : Revue des deux Mondes : Edin- 

 burgh Review : Quarterly Review : Westminster Review : Hesperos. 



As members had not taken advantage of the Library being kept 

 open until 10 P. M. on Thursdays during June and July, the arrange- 

 ment, tried as an experiment, was to cease from August 1st. 



It was ordered that Members on election should be in future in- 

 formed that a copy of the Library Catalogue was at their disposal if 

 they chose to apply for it. 



August 26th, Ordinary Meeting. 



An offer from Pundit Lai Trelok Nath Sing of a book named 

 11 Bhoobnesh Ank Brakar " on the Construction of Magic Squares, for 

 publication by the Society, was declined. 



A suggestion from Mr. F. J. Fleet that Major Kittoe's impression 

 of the Gupta Inscription from Aphsar in the Behar District, then in his 

 possession, should be presented by the Society to the India Office in 

 London, was declined. 



An application from Mr. H. G. Keene for permission to publish a 

 new edition of Beale's Oriental Biographical Dictionary, which had been 

 brought out by the Society in 1881, was granted on the condition that 

 the publication was to be at Mr. Keene's own expense and sole responsi- 

 bility. 



An examination of the beams over the staircase was ordered. 



September 30th, Ordinary Meeting. 



Mr. T. GL H. Moncreiffe resigned his seat as Member of the Council. 



An application from the Inspector- General of Education, Central 

 Provinces, for the grant of thirteen specified works in the Bibliotheca 

 Indica to the Jubbulpore College was sanctioned. 



In accordance with the Minutes of the Members of Council on 

 Mr. A. Grote's letter regarding the publication of Part III of Mr. Moore's 

 papers on the late Mr. Atkinson's Collection of Lepidoptera, the Trea- 

 surer stated that in pursuance of instructions, the Bank of Bengal had 

 sold Government Securities of the value of Rs. 1,500 and that the sum 

 £161-6-6 had been remitted to Mr. Grote. 



In accordance with the Minutes of the Members of Council regarding 

 a Catalogue of Sanskrit MSS. found in a temple at Pooree, and for- 



