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Expenditure. 

 General charges for Library, Museum and Establish- 

 ment, 6000 



Journal, — say „ 1200 



7200 

 Income. 



100 Eesidents at Rs. 48, 4800 



100 Non-Residents at Rs. 24, , 2400 



7200 



The present number of members must therefore be nearly doubled, 

 if the Society is to be enabled to maintain the position it now occu- 

 pies. 



The Council do not disguise from themselves that the measure 

 they are proposing is one which is not free from risk. They are 

 satisfied that it ought to be successful, but they are no less impress- 

 ed with a conviction that to ensure success a resolute effort is 

 necessary. 



They therefore make an earnest appeal to all the members of the 

 Society, and more especially to such as have been the active promot- 

 ers of a reduction, that in the event of the measure being carried, 

 they will rise all their influence to obtain for the Society that 

 enlarged support without which its resources must be seriously 

 crippled, and its usefulness proportionally impaired. 



The Council entertain the fullest confidence that this appeal will 

 be responded to by all who have at heart the welfare of the Society 

 and the advancement of science and literature in India ; and with 

 this conviction they have no hesitation in recommending the pro- 

 posed measure to the adoption of the Society." 



The Secretary proposed that the ordinary general meeting in July 

 be made special for the consideration and final decision of the 

 question, and that in the interval the votes of non-resident mem- 

 bers be taken, in compliance with rule 45. 



This resolution was put and carried. 



The Curator exhibited the skull of a Tibetan Kyang (or so call- 

 ed ' wild Horse'), together with that of a Ghor-khur (or so called 



