ANNUAL -REPORT 
OF THE 
COUNCIL 
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OF THE 
mOvAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, 
FOR THE YEAR 1885. 
The Council for 1885, on retiring, have, they believe, a satis- 
factory Report to lay before the Society. 
During the year, the following new members have been elected 
provisionally by the Council, subject to confirmation at a general 
meeting :—the Hon’ble J. F. Dicxsoy, c.m.e¢., J. B. Excum, Esq., A. 
Hate, Esqg., Dr. Duncan Scortr, H. Crirrorp, Esq., A. GenTLp, 
Ksq., T. L. Gostine, Esq. 
The following member has been removed by death during the 
year 1885—Sir Harry Sr. GrorcE Orp. 
The Council are glad to announce the completion and approach- 
ing publication of two volumes of Miscellaneous Papers relating 
to Indo-China and the Malay Peninsula, which have been edited 
for the Society by Dr. Rost, and which are published by Messrs. 
Tripner & Co. The collection includes forty papers of various 
- degrees of scientific interest, extracted from Dalrymple’s Repertory, 
Asiatic Researches, and the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 
A supply of copies of this work will be sent to the Honorary 
Secretary as soon as it is published, and may be obtained from hin, 
by members only, at $5 for the two volumes. It is proposed to 
continue the series by the publication of two more volumes in 1886, 
