24 Annual Report. [Feb. 
The purchase of several books was sanctioned for the Society’s 
library. 
On an application from the menial servants of the Society pray¬ 
ing for slight increase of pay, owing to the scarcity of grain, the 
Secretary was empowered to make enquiries from the Bengal Secre¬ 
tariat and grant compensation on the same scale and for the same 
period. 
The Treasurer was authorized to buy Government 4 per cent, 
paper up to Rs. 10,000. 
March \st, Ordinary Meeting, 
The President, International Congress of Orientalists, Geneva, was 
informed, in reply to his letter, that the Society would endeavour to 
depute a representative, or representatives, to the meeting. 
Surgeon-Major Ranking agreed to undertake the translation of 
“ Muntakhabu-t-Tawarikh ” for the Bibliotheca Indica. 
In reply to a letter from the Chairman of the Organizing 
Committee of the Sixth International Geographical Congress at London, 
permission was readily given to place the name of the President of the 
Asiatic Society of Bengal on the list of Honorary Vice-Presidents of 
the Congress in 1895. 
The purchase of several books for the Society’s library was sanc¬ 
tioned. 
A sub-committee composed of Colonel Waterhouse and Colonel 
H. S. Jarrett was appointed to consider the question of repairing 
the Society’s pictures, with power to invite the advice of Mr. E. V. 
W estmacott. 
With reference to the council order, dated 31st August 1893, sanc¬ 
tioning the appointment of an assistant on Rs. 13, for six months, for 
the purpose of putting the stock in order, an extension of one month 
was approved. 
The appointment of two bearers on Rs. 7 each, from 10th February 
1894, in the stock-room, for the purpose of dusting and re-arranging the 
books, was approved. 
March 29th, Ordinary Meeting. 
The purchase of certain Persian manuscripts, at prices recom¬ 
mended by Colonel Jarrett, was agreed to. 
An exchange of the Society’s Journal, Part III, for the publications 
of the Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, was 
sanctioned. 
On an application from Mr. E. Hartert, it was agreed that the 
