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older Grantham as well as Canarese inscriptions appear to be undeci- 

 pherable." 



The Chairman reported to the meeting that the Council had, in 

 compliance with Mr. Blanford's application for 3 months' leave, made 

 the following arrangements for the conduct of the Society's business 

 for that period. Mr. Blanford had expressed a wish to be temporarily- 

 relieved in order that he might devote himself to the completion of his 

 report on the late Cyclone. Babu Rajendralala Mitra, having resign- 

 ed his office of Vice-President, has been appointed Secretary. Dr. John 

 Anderson has been appointed to the Council vice Mr. Greoghegan, gone to 

 England. Babu JadavaKrishiia Singh hasbeen appointed vice-President 

 in the place of Babu Rajendralala Mitra resigned. Col. J. E. Grastrell 

 has been appointed Treasurer. Dr. John Anderson has also been 

 appointed Secretary. 



Mr. Heeley's letter of resignation was read by the Secretary. 



The Chairman explained that this letter had been kept back for 

 some months in hopes that Mr. Heeley might be able to resume his 

 duties of Joint- Secretary. Mr. Heeley, however, having been compelled 

 by the pressure of his official duties to press his resignation on the 

 Council, they had now brought it forward, and he hoped that the 

 meeting would agree to the vote of thanks which he would propose 

 in the following Resolution : — 



That the thanks of the Society be given to Mr. Heeley for the 

 manner in which he has discharged the duties of Secretary during the 

 last year and a half. 



The Resolution, being put to vote, was carried unanimously. 



The Council submitted a report on the recommendation of the 

 Philological Committee for the publication in the Bibliotheca Indica 

 of the Ikbal-nameh Jehangiri, a historical work treating of the reign 

 of Jehangir. The Chairman explained that this was one of the 

 histories enumerated by Sir H. Elliot in his Index, but that its value 

 had been apparently rather disparaged by the late Mr. Morley in his 

 Catalogue of historical MSS. in the Royal Asiatic Society's Library. 

 This being the case, the Philological Committee had asked one of 

 their members, Capt. Lees, who had agreed to edit their proposed 

 publication, to draw up a note on the several extant histories of 

 Jehangir's period, 



