8 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [Jan. 



two more Nos. (one of eacli Part) are nearly ready for publication. A 

 Special Ethnological number, containing a treatise on the Ethnology 

 of India by the Hon'ble Gr. Campbell, with some important vocabu- 

 laries, has also been issued, the price of which to subscribers it has been 

 found necessary to fix at a higher rate than that of the ordinary 

 series. Ten numbers of the^Proceedings have also been published, in 

 addition to a number containing the Index and tables for the Volume 

 of 1865, and a double number, completing the Volume for the past 

 year, will be issued in a few days. 



All arrears of papers have now been cleared off, and it is believed 

 that in the ensuing year the cost of the publications will be somewhat 

 less therefore than during the past two years. But while the Council 

 fully recognise the necessity . for economy, they cannot recommend 

 any curtailment of the publications, so long as reductions can be 

 effected in other departments of the Society's expenditure. 



LlBRARY. 



Four hundred and sixty-nine volumes, periodicals and pamphlets 

 have been added to the library during the past year and the litera- 

 ture of certain departments of Natural History in which the library 

 was previously very deficient, has been largely added to. 



During the ensuing year, the finances will unfortunately allow but 

 a comparatively small expenditure on new works, but a book for re- 

 cording the names of works which it is desirable to add to the library 

 is kept open for the suggestions o£ members, and these will be consi- 

 dered, and such as are approved of, added to the library in the order 

 of their importance, as the means of the Society may admit, of. 



BlBLIOTHECA InDICA. 



The editors of the Bibliotheca- Indica continue to carry on that 

 serial with unabated zeal. They have brought out 24 numbers, including 

 portions of 10 different works, within the year under report. Twelve 

 of these are in Persian, one in Arabic, ten in Sanskrit, and one trans- 

 lation into English from the Sanskrit. 



In the new scries Mauluvis Xabir ul Din Ahmad and Abdul 

 Rahman have published the first three fasciculi of the Pddshdhndmeh 

 of Abdul Hamid Lahuri, a history of Shah Jehan which will be wel- 

 come to oriental scholars as a contemporary and authentic chronicle 

 of the reign of that emperor. ■ The work is being printed from a MS. 



