1895 .] 
Annual Report. 
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On an application from the Provost of the University of Pennsyl¬ 
vania, an exchange of publications was sanctioned. 
The question of repairing the Society’s pictures and re-gilding the 
frames, as recommended by the Sub-Committee, was referred to the 
Finance Committee for report. If funds were available, the work of 
cleaning the pictures was ordered to be given to Mr. Palmer with in¬ 
structions, that in cleaning he should not retouch any part of the picture 
without reference to the Sub-Committee. 
The thanks of the Society were voted to Mr. Hoey for the presenta¬ 
tion of a valuable copper-plate inscribed with A£oka characters. The 
gift was ordered to be reported at the General Meeting. 
May 31s£, Ordinary Meeting. 
The Council accepted the resignation of Dr. Walsh as Anthropolo¬ 
gical Secretary, and thanked him for his services. 
Lord Elgin’s acceptance of the office of Patron of the Society was 
ordered to be reported to the General Meeting. 
It was ordered that a reply should be sent to the Royal Society of 
London, on the feasibility of compiling a catalogue of scientific papers 
through International co-operation, to the effect that there would be no 
difficulty in co-ordinating the Society’s publications with other periodical 
publications in English, and that the Society would be prepared to make 
a moderate contribution to the maintenance of a bureau when the 
scheme took shape. 
On the recommendations of the Physical Science Committee, the 
offer of Dr. Lawrence Fernandez to present the “ Medical Reporter” 
from 1892 to date, and future issues, to the Society’s library was 
accepted with thanks. 
It was agreed, on the recommendation of the Finance Committee, 
that a sum of money up to a limit of one thousand rupees might, for the 
present, be spent on repairing the Society’s pictures. The question of 
re-gilding the frames was deferred. 
Copies of Wright’s Comparative Grammar of the Semitic Languages 
and of Lacouperie’s Western Origin of the Early Chinese Civilization 
were ordered to be purchased for the Society’s library. 
June 28th , Ordinary Meeting. 
The Honorary Central Secretaries, Indian Medical Congress, in 
reply to their letter asking the use of the Society’s building for the ac¬ 
commodation of some of the sections of the Indian Medical Congress 
which was to be held in Calcutta from the 24th to 29th December 1894, 
were informed that the Society would be glad to put its rooms at the 
