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W. Ritchie, Esq., M. A., Advócate General, proposed by Mr, 

 Atkinson, seconded by the President. 



J. G. Thomson, Esq., proposed by Mr. F. Fisk Williams, seconded 

 by Mr. Atkinson. 



The Kev. W. Ayerst, Rector of St. PauFs school, proposed by Mr. 

 Cowell, seconded by Mr. Atkinson. 



O. J. Campbell, Esq., C. E., Delhi, proposed by Lieut.-Col. H. 

 Yule, seconded by Oapt C. H. Dickens. 



Report of the Council. 



The Council beg to submit the folio wing report of the Philologi- 

 cal Committee for the approval of the Society. 



Report. 



The Philological Committee beg to recommend to the Council 

 that the Persian Historical work entitled Tarikhi Másáúclí be pub- 

 lished in the new series of the Bibliotheca Indica. Mr. Morley has 

 offered to send bis transcript of the original, prepared from several 

 MSS, for the Oriental Text Society, but which he is willing to hand 

 over to the Asiatic Society, to publish in their Bibliotheca. Indica. 

 The work would occupy about four fase iculi, and as it is the com- 

 position of Sultán Másáúdí's Secretary, Abúl Fuzl Báiháki, it offers a 

 contemporary picture of the period. For the importance of the time 

 itself, it will be sufficient to quote the following from Elphinstone's 

 Iiistory. 



"Másáúdí's period must have been one of the most deserving of 

 notice in the whole course of the career of the Muhammadans in 

 India. It must have been then that permanent residence in India, 

 and habitual intercourse with the natives, introduced a change into 

 the manners and ways of the invaders, that the rudiments of a new 

 language were formed and a foundation laid for the present national 

 character of the Muhammadan Indians." 



The Committee also beg to recommend the publication of the 

 Sanscrit text of the Aphorisms of Sandilya, which Dr. Ballantyne 

 has offered to edit, with a native commentary and an English trans- 

 lation. The text and commentary will only fill about onefasciculus, 

 and the work itself appears to be one on every account well deserv- 

 ing of being included in the Bibliotheca Indica. 



The report was adopted. 



