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LlBRATlY. 
The Library has received an addition of about 450 volumes, during 
the past year, the greater part of which are presentations from vari¬ 
ous learned and scientific institutions and individuals with whom the 
Society is in correspondence. Some Oriental works have been pur¬ 
chased and a few scientific periodicals and Reviews. 
Coin Fund. 
The numismatic collection has received no addition of moment 
during the period under review, some duplicate copper and silver 
coins of the later Mahomedan kings of India, have been sold, and 
other coins principally Bactrian, have been purchased. 
Exchanges which will fill several gaps in this interesting series 
of medals, are now being made with Colonel Cunningham, and the 
Coin Committee are taking advantage of Mr. E. C. Bay ley’s presence 
in Calcutta, to introduce some order into their Cabinet. 
Museum. 
The accessions to the Museum during the last year have been 
varied and interesting. 
The most important of these additions is an extensive collection 
of casts chiefly facial, illustrative of the various races of India and 
Central Asia, prepared by the enterprising travellers Messrs, de Schla- 
gintweit. This valuable collection has been transferred to the 
Society’s Museum from the Medical College by order of Government. 
For the better arrangement and display of these casts, several new 
stands and frames have been prepared. A small selection of twenty 
casts from the series had previously been presented to the Society by 
Herr R. de Schlagintweit. 
In the Mineralogical department has been added several magnifi¬ 
cent aerolites which fell on the 12tli of Maj r last in the district of 
Goruckpore. Five fragments of this fall have been received, speei- 
