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The total number of volumes, pamphlets, and periodicals added to 

 the library during the year is 572. 



With a view to the further improvement of the library, the Council 

 have requested the Library Committee to enquire into, and especially 

 report upon, its present condition, and to submit propositions for its 

 future arrangement ; so that future additions may be made system- 

 atically as the funds of the Society msy permit, and in accordance 

 with the demands of science. Special attention will be given to the 

 completion of those serials or other works, deficient sets of which now 

 exist in the library. 



COINS. 



The collection of these valuable relics has not received any accession 

 of moment. The only addition deserving of mention is from Baboo 

 Shibchunder Mulliek, who presented a trove of silver Mahomedan 

 coins from his zemindary in the Sunderbuns. 



MUSEUM. 



Owing to the severe illness of the Society's late curator, Mr. Blyth ? 

 which compelled that gentleman to proceed to England at the close 

 of 1862, the museum has been deprived of the supervision of a pro- 

 fessional curator during the whole of the year. 



Dr. Jerdon has, however, most kindly given much time and atten- 

 tion to the collections while engaged in the preparation of his Manual 

 on the Natural History of India, and Baboo Poorno Chunder By sack 

 having had charge of the collections mainly with a view to their 

 preservation, the Council are enabled to report that the collections 

 have been well cared for, and that recent additions have been mounted 

 and arranged so as to be equally available with the former for study 

 or inspection. 



The collection of fossil remains of invertebrate animals and plants 

 has been mounted, worked out, arranged, and catalogued, and the 

 collections of birds' eggs remounted and arranged in a cabinet espe- 

 cially provided for that purpose. 



Tiie valuable series of stuffed quadrumana which had been hitherto 

 exposed in one of the lower rooms, has been arranged in two large 

 glass cases, and it is trusted that they have been placed beyond 

 danger of future deterioration. A new case has been provided for the 

 Society's models and specimens of meteorites, and insect cabinets have 

 been ordered from England at a cost of Rs. 500 ; a cabinet of slide 



