No. 44.— 1893.] 



PROCEEDINGS. 



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All Papers read before the Society last year were printed before 

 being read, and proofs were issued to Members likely to interest 

 themselves in the subjects dealt with, or to take part in the discussion. 



A list of Members up to date (with their addresses) is in the Press. 



The Proceedings for 1 889-90 have been compiled and are ready in 

 manuscript. 



Since the year 1891 the following arrears have been caught up, 

 viz. :— Journals Vol. XI., No. 38, 1889 ; Vol. XI., No. 39, 1889, and 

 Proceedings, 1887-8. The numbers of the Journal which remain to be 

 issued are Vol. XI., Nos. 40 and 41, of 1890, and the Proceedings of 

 1889-90. These will be taken up as soon as the Government Printer 

 has leisure. He was unable to attend to this last year owing to heavy 

 official demands on the Government Printing Press. 



The Journal for last year, Vol. XII., 1892, No. 43, will be issued to 

 Members shortly. 



The Society has to acknowledge its obligations to the Government 

 Printer and his Assistants for their courteous attention and readiness 

 to help the Society in the printing of its publications. 



International Congress of Orientalists. 



Professor T. W. Rhys Davids was appointed (on the authority of 

 the Council) to represent the Society at the Ninth International 

 Congress of Orientalists held in London in September last. 



Library. 



The number of volumes (including separate parts of peri- 

 odicals) added to the Society's Library since the commencement of 

 1892 amounts up to the end of the year to 250. Many of the books 

 have been presented to the Society, and several others obtained in 

 exchange for the Society's publications. The names of the following 

 donors amongst others may be mentioned : — The Secretary of State 

 in Council for India ; the Bureau of Education, United States, 

 America ; the Ceylon Government ; the Trustees of the Indian 

 Museum ; the British Association for the Advancement of Science ; 

 the Trustees of the British Museum ; the Committee of the North- 

 West Provinces and Oudh Provincial Museum, Lucknow ; Dr. Adolph 

 Bastian ; the Director of Public Instruction ; and the Hamilton 

 Association. 



Cataloguing. 



A Catalogue of the Society's Library has not yet been printed. 

 One was begun as part of a Catalogue intended to embrace the 

 two collections of books in the Museum, that belonging to the 

 Society and the other to the Government, which were amalgamated 

 for the purpose. As, however, the collections were separated in 1891, 

 and as a fresh Catalogue of the Government Library has been com- 

 menced, the Catalogue of the Society's books should now be published 

 independently. The manuscript list is practically complete, and all 

 that remains to be done is to finally revise the arrangement of the 

 " slips " already written, to add the names of the books received since 

 the date at which the preparation of the Catalogue stopped, and to 

 pass the work through the press. The compilers deserve the thanks 

 of the Society for their efforts to bring out a Catalogue of the 



