Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 

 Expenses. 



[Jan. 



Journal, 

 Library, 

 Museum, . . . 

 Secretary's Office, 

 Building, . . . 

 Coin Fund, 

 Miscellaneous, 



3,500 

 2,500 

 1,500 

 2,350 

 1,800 

 250 

 400 



12,300 



The receipt of the Government allowance for the Museum and the 

 expenditure thereon, are estimated for three months only, as the trans- 

 fer of the Society's collections to Government, already sanctioned by 

 the Society, will probably be effected in the early part of the present 

 year. 



Library. 



During the past year, all purchased additions to the Library with 

 the exception of periodicals and serials in continuation of those pre- 

 viously subscribed for, have been made under the direction of the Library 

 and Phil. Committees, 500 Volumes and periodicals have been added, 

 the majority of these being presentations from learned Societies and 

 authors. No new large and expensive works have been added to the 

 Library, and the majority of the works purchased have been either of 

 Philological or Antiquarian interest. The Library Committee are, 

 however, now engaged on the consideration of the wants of the Natural 

 History Department, and it is hoped that some of the more striking 

 deficiencies in this department may be supplied during the present year. 



The Society's Photographic Album has received two important series 

 of contributions, from Capt. Melville and Mr. Mulheran ; the Council 

 have also taken steps to procure by purchase a selection of photographs 

 representing the destruction caused by the Great Cyclone. 



The rooms devoted to the library are now barely sufficient to afford 

 the required accommodation ; and new and classified catalogues and a 

 reclassification and arrangement of the Library are much required, in 

 order that the latter may be placed on such a footing as to be readily 

 available to members. These latter necessaries will receive the imme- 

 diate consideration of the Council, but as their practical execution will 

 involve an amount of labour which no honorary officer of the Society 



