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Annual Report. 
[Feb. 
November 29th, Ordinary Meeting. 
Permission was given to Dr. Friedrich Schwally to borrow the 
Arabic manuscript “ Kitabul * Mahasinwal Masawi,” from the Society’s 
library, on the guarantee of the University of Strassburg. 
On an application from the Secretary, Koninklijk Institunt voor 
de Taal-Land-En Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indie, it was agreed 
that Journal , Parts I and II, should be sent in exchange for their 
“ Bijdragen.” The Society’s publications for the last ten years were 
ordered to be supplied. 
It was resolved that Mr. Lyall should be asked to continue to hold 
the office of President of the Society till February, when the term 
of his office expires. 
In consequence of the request of the Natural History Secretary for a 
special grant of £68-11-0 to meet the bill from Messrs. West, Newman, 
& Co. for the five Chromo-Lithograph plates of butterflies, issued in 
the Journal , Part II, No. 3 of 1894, it was resolved that in future no 
more than the third of the annual budget grant should be spent on 
plates; and that for the 1894 Journal , Part II will consist of the three 
numbers already published. 
The Secretary was directed to forward the report of the Philo¬ 
logical Secretary on the Subject of the conservation of Sanskrit manu¬ 
scripts to the Government of India, and to represent the desirability of 
continuing the grant for a further period of 5 years. 
It was ordered that two copies of Dr. Grierson’s Modern Verna¬ 
cular Literature of Hindustan be lent to the Society’s agents for the 
search of Sanskrit manuscripts from the reserve copies in stock. 
The purchase of several books for the Society’s library was sanc¬ 
tioned. 
December 2 8th, Ordinary Meeting. 
Permission was given to Dr. Bruno Liebech to borrow the manu¬ 
script of the “ Candra Vyakarana ” from the Society’s library on the 
guarantee of the University of Breslau. 
In continuation of the Council order of the 28th June, it was agreed 
that a reply should be sent to the Government of India, to the effect 
that the Society was not in a position to assume control of the Archaeo¬ 
logical Survey in Bengal, and that it recommended the adoption of the 
Lieutenant-Governor’s proposal to appoint an Archaeological Officer 
under the Bengal Government. 
The Report having been read, the Chairman invited the meeting 
to put any questions, or to offer any remarks, which any member might 
think necessary in connection therewith. 
