60 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [No. 1. 



LIBRARY. 



The Library has received important accessions of Scientific and 

 Oriental works to the extent of 300 vols., during the year under 

 report. The presentations from learned Societies and Institutions 

 have been rich and various, and the Society's purchases include 

 most of the leading scientific and other periodicals. 



Mr. Chaloner Alabaster has furnished the Society with a Catalogue 

 of the Chinese works in the Library, which will shortly appear in 

 the Journal, and the Librarian is preparing a list of incomplete 

 Works and Transactions of learned Societies, in order that the Vols. 

 wanting may be procured from Europe. 



Stacy Collection op Coins. 

 The Council having been in treaty during the last two years for 

 the purchase of this collection of coins, have at last succeeded in 

 securing it. A Committee which was nominated to examine the 

 coins, reports them to be complete, according to Mr. E. Thomas's 

 Catalogue, with a very few exceptions. The sum of 2,938 Eupees 

 originally subscribed for the purchase of this collection, was realized 

 in full, and the balance, Eupees 1,062, has been made up from the 

 Society's Eunds out of the grant of 1,200 Eupees, accorded for 

 that purpose by a special vote. The Committee hope ere long to 

 determine the best means of preserving and exhibiting this valuable 

 collection, together with other coins already in the Society's posses- 

 sion. 



Museum. 



The repairs of the building having occupied the greater part of 

 the year, the Museum has been closed to public inspection for a 

 lengthened period. The trouble of removing at every successive 

 stage the articles occupying the Society's premises, has protracted 

 the repairs considerably. They have, however, now been completed 

 and the objects in the Museum re-arranged. 



Journal. 



Owin°" to the continued troubles of the country, and the conse- 

 quent hindrance to the prosecution of scientific researches, only 4 

 Nob. of the Journal have been issued. 



