12G Proceedings of the Asiatic Society, [May, 



The following gentlemen arc candidates for ballot at the next meeting. 



J. Schroeder, Esq. 



Proposed by Dr. F. Stoliczka, seconded by Mr. Blochmann. 



J. Leupolt, Esq., C. S., Goruckpur. 



Proposed by the President seconded by W. Oldham, Esq. 



T. W. Rawlin, Esq., B. C S., Assistant Magistrate, Allahabad. 



Proposed by Lientenant-Colonel A. S. Allan, seconded by Mr. Bloch- 

 mann. 



Babu Udayachanda Datta, Civil Surgeon, Purulia. 



Proposed by Babu Rajendralala Mitra, seconded by Mr. Blochmann. 



W. C. Bonnerji, Esq., Bar.-at-law, Calcutta. 



Proposed by Maulavi Abdul-lateef Khan Bahadur, seconded by the 

 Rev. J. Long. 



The following gentlemen have intimated their desire to withdraw 

 from the Society — 



Colonel P. S. Lumsden. 



T. Martin, Esq. 



Mr. H. Perkins' election, in August last, was cancelled at that gentle- 

 man's own request. 



The Council reported that, on the recommendation of the Finance 

 Committee, they have sanctioned the sale of Government Securities 

 belonging to the Oriental Publication Fund to the amount of Rupees 

 1500, to pay off Printer's bills. — 



That they have adopted the following recommendations of the 

 Philological Committee. 



1. The Philological Committee recommend that Mr. J. Beames be 

 permitted to edit the poems of Chand for the Bibliotlieca Indica ; 

 that he be requested to embody the different readings of the Benares 

 and Agra MSS. in the results of his collation of the two MSS., consulted 

 by him in England, and that the Government of the N. W. Provinces be 

 requested to sanction the lending to Mr. Beames of the Agra MS., 

 now in the keeping of the Society ; — that when the copy of the 

 Baidlah MS. is received, it be put at his disposal for collation. 



2. The Committee also recommend that the following works be 

 published in the Bibliotlieca Indica: — 



a. Tandya or Panchavinsa Brahmana of the Sama Veda with com- 

 mentaries, to be edited by Pandita A'nandachandra Vedantavagis'a. 



