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desirable to issue. He suggests the employment of an Editor, and 

 native assistant, on salaries together not exceeding 150 Rs. per mensem, 

 the control of the work to be vested in the Oriental Section. 



Fully concurring in Mr. Laidlay's views, the Council advise their 

 adoption, and recommend the appointment of Dr. Roer as Editor, under 

 the superintendence of the Oriental Section. The Council are of opini- 

 on that in justice to Dr. Roer, a certain portion of his Edition of the 

 Vedas should form the 1st and 2d Fasciculus of the proposed work. 

 They are convinced that this publication will afford satisfactory proof of 

 Dr. Roer's high qualifications for the difficult and laborious duties he 

 has undertaken to perform. They also suggest the reinforcement of 

 the Oriental Section by the appointment of Mr. H. M. Elliot and 

 Mr. W. Scton Karr, who have recently arrived at the Presidency, and 

 whose attainments in Oriental literature are so well known to the 

 members of the Society. 



Considering the importance of obtaining the co-operation and advice 

 of eminent Oriental Scholars in India and in England, in order success- 

 fully to carry out the purposes for which the Government grant was 

 bestowed, the Council recommend that the following names of dis- 

 tinguished non-resident Orientalists be added to the Section, and 

 that these gentlemen be requested to lend as occasion may offer, their 

 earnest and effective assistance to the resident Committee as an addi- 

 tional assurance to the Hon'ble Court of the Society's anxiety, as well 

 as ability, to accomplish the objects of this grant. 



Professor Horace Hayman Wilson— Mr. Hodgson, Dr. Sprenger, 

 Mr. Walter Elliott, and Dr. Bird. 



Mr. Bushby at the same time desires to be relieved from the duties 

 of this Section. 



Library. 



The Library has been augmented during the year to the extent of 257 

 volumes, a new catalogue has been prepared by the Librarian and ap- 

 proved of by the Council, and should be printedwithout further delay. 

 The number of Books borrowed by subscribers during the year has been 

 1 150 volumes. The Council have every reason to be satisfied with the 

 manner in which the Librarian has discharged his duties. He has been 

 punctual in attendance, and has in all other respects acquitted himself 

 !v creditable manner. It deserves special notice that by his zeal 



