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166 











120 











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Secretary's Office, 

 Building, 

 Vested Fund, ... 

 Coin Fund, 

 Income Tax, 

 Miscellaneous, ... 



12,925 0' 



LlBBARY. 



The Library has received an addition of about 450 volumes, during 

 the past year, the greater part of which are presentations from vari- 

 ous learned and scientific institutions and individuals with whom the 

 Society is in correspondence. Some Oriental works have been pur- 

 chased and a few scientific periodicals and Reviews. 



Coin Fund. 



The numismatic collection has received no addition of moment 

 during the period under review, some duplicate copper and silver 

 coins of the later Mahomedan kings of India, have been sold, and 

 other coins principally Bactrian, have been purchased. 



Exchanges which will fill several gaps in this interesting series 

 of medals, are now being made with Colonel Cunningham, and the 

 Coin Committee are taking advantage of Mr. E. C. Bayley's presence 

 in Calcutta, to introduce 3ome order into their Cabinet. 



Museum. 



The accessions to the Museum during the last year have been 

 varied and interesting. 



The most important of these additions is an extensive collection 

 of casts chiefly facial, illustrative of the various races of India and 

 Central Asia, prepared by the enterprising travellers Messrs. de Schla- 

 gintweit. This valuable collection has been transferred to the 

 Society's Museum from the Medical College by order of Government. 

 For the better arrangement and display of these casts, several new 

 stands and frames have been prepared. A small selection of twenty 

 casts from the series had previously been presented to the Society by 

 Herr R. de Schlagintweit. 



In the Mineralogical department has been added several magnifi- 

 cent aerolites which fell on the 12th of May last in the district of 

 Goruckpore. Five fragments of this fall have been received, speci- 



