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Seven numbers of the Journal, viz. three of the Natural History 

 and four of the Historical part, have been issued, and ten numbers of 

 the Proceedings ; an eighth number of the Journal, making the fourth 

 of the Natural History part, is now nearly ready for issue, together 

 with the number of the Proceedings for December. 



Library. 



During the past year, 350 volumes, periodicals, and pamphlets have 

 been added to the Library, the greater part of which have been pre- 

 sentations. The heavy outlay which has been incurred in the repairs 

 of the building and the restoration of the Museum, has not permitted 

 the Society to expend any large sum on the Library. A series of works 

 on Zoophytes have however been purchased, with a view to the deter- 

 mination and arrangement of this part of the Zoological collection, which 

 Dr. Stoliczka has kindly offered to undertake. Considerable progress 

 has been made in the preparation of a new and classified catalogue, 

 long an urgent necessity ; the former catalogue having become in a 

 great measure obsolete, owing to the large additions made to the 

 Library since it was prepared. The catalogue now preparing will be 

 classified according to subjects, with a descriptive index arranged 

 alphabetically, and it is proposed to publish an annual Supplement 

 arranged in like manner. 



Bibliotheca Indica. 



Twenty-six numbers of the Bibliotheca Indica have been issued 

 during the past year, including portions of twelve different works. 

 One of these is Arabic, two are Persian, seven Sanskrit, and two 

 translations from the Sanskrit. 



In the new series, Major Lees has completed his edition of the Wis- 

 o-Bamin, an ancient Persian poem of great merit ; and Maulavis Abdul 

 Hak and Ahmed Ali have brought out three fasciculi of the Ikbal- 

 n&meh Jahangiri, a biography of Jehangir, which, with the Tojuk-e 

 Jehangiri, lately published at Alighar, will place at the disposal of the 

 Oriental scholar the most authentic materials available for a correct 

 history of the reign of that distinguished emperor. As a sequel to it, 

 the Council have lately sent to press the Alamgirndmeh of Mohamed 

 Kazim, and intend to follow it up by editions of the Bddshdhndmeh of 



