1839.] Asiatic Society. 439 



I wish heartily it were in my power to offer the Journal to the Society on more 

 favorable terms, but the bills circulated to the Committee for the first quarter of the 

 periodical, shew that it is only the support of the Society to its present extent that can 

 permit the continuance of the Journal in a respectable shape. The plates alone for 

 No. 4 will cost over two hundred and seventeen rupees. 



The question as to this item of expense thus evidently becomes one of the existence 

 or discontinuance of the Journal. I am glad to say we have not lost more than six 

 subscribers since the commencement of the New Series — not quite the average number 

 of secessions in the same period of previous years. 



3. Secretary's Office and Contingencies — Items of expense : — 

 Salary to Herambanath Thakoor, .... " ..... 60* 



Sirkar, .. .. .. .. ..10 



3 Peons, . . . . . . 15 



Stationery, Postage, Lighting, Wax-cloth, Cooly hire, &c. 25 



Total, Rs. 110 



* This Officer's salary was increased from Sa. Rs. 40, (Co's. Rs. 42 : 10 : 8) by a 

 vote of the Society in January of this year. 



4. Museum — Total charge, Rs. 305. 



Items. 

 1st Taxidermist, 

 2nd Ditto, 

 2 Carpenters <g) 8/ 

 2 Farashes @ 5/ 



Curator, on scale paid to Messrs. Pearson 



Evans, and Jameson, 

 Contingencies on scale of last year (exceeded 

 in the months of this year) 



With reference to this Department, Dr. M'Clelland has favored us with a memo- 

 randum to the Committee, which I have had the pleasure to circulate in original.* 



Dr. M'Clelland in this Paper gives a brief History of our Museum — glances at 

 the principles on which it should be arranged — offers suggestions as to the furniture 

 required for our new rooms — and presents a plan (which appears to me an excellent 

 one) for securing a correct nomenclature, by a system of correspondence with acknow- 

 ledged authorities at home. Dr. M'Clelland then notices the expenditure for 

 the past year in this Department, and which exceeded the Government grant of 200 

 Rupees monthly, by about 100 Rupees per mensem (total 1171 Rupees) from which 

 only 240 Rupees were expended on cabinets or other permanent articles. 



Dr. M'Clelland observes that the Head Taxidermist cannot write, and therefore 

 cannot be entrusted with any important charge beyond his manual duties. The 

 necessity however of having some well-informed man constantly in attendance to wait 

 on visitors, &c. is justly pointed out, and it is recommended that the Assistant Libra- 

 rian, Mr. Bouchez, who now receives 30 Rupees, be appointed to the charge on an 

 increased salary, say to 50 or 60 Rupees. 



* Inserted in this Number, page 415. 



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