32 Annual Report. [Feb. 
The new rules for the Library, drawn up by the Secretary, were ap¬ 
proved, with a few modifications. 
June 27tli, Ordinary Meeting. 
With reference to the question of a new boundary railing, it was 
finally decided that as no satisfactory offer had been received from the Mu¬ 
nicipality, the present wall should be altered and repaired after the rains. 
A recommendation of the Finance Committee that Its 1000 worth of 
Government Securities should be sold to meet the expense of the Atkinson 
papers was sanctioned. 
August 1st, Ordinary Meeting. 
Mr. H. Blochmann having resigned the Trusteeship of the Indian 
Museum, Mr. E. Gay was appointed a Trustee on behalf of the Society. 
The following minute was recorded on the death of Mr. H. Bloch¬ 
mann, Philological Secretary of the Society. 
“ The Council desires to place on record its sense of the very great loss 
that the Society and Oriental literature have sustained in the death of Mr. 
Blochmann, and to express its deep regret at the sad event that has de¬ 
prived the members of so valuable and estimable a colleague.” 
Mr. C. H. Tawney was appointed Philological Secretary temporarily. 
Mr. E. Gay having resigned the Treasurership on his departure for 
Bombay, Mr. H. Beverley was appointed in his place. 
Applications from the Industrial School of Distritz and the United Ser¬ 
vice Institution of India for an exchange of publications were declined. 
A Committee composed of Messrs. O’Kinealy, Croft, Dr. R. L. Mitra, 
Babu Prannatk Pandit, the President and Secretaries was appointed to col¬ 
lect subscriptions for a memorial to the late Mr. Blochmann. 
August 2 Qth, Ordinary Meeting. 
Mr. C. H. Tawney was appointed a Trustee of the Indian Museum in 
place of Mr. E. Gay. 
The recommendation of the Finance Committee that the Society’s 
5 ! per cent. Government Securities should be transferred to 4-j, was approved 
and confirmed, and the Treasurer ordered to effect the transfer. 
An offer from Mr. C. J. Lyall to continue the editing and publishing 
of the Persian text of ’Amar Khayyam was accepted with thanks. 
September 25th, Ordinary Meeting. 
In reply to a letter from the Society of Telegraph Engineers a copy of 
the Ronald’s Catalogue was ordered to be subscribed for. 
Read a letter No. 200, dated 31st August, from the Under-Secretary to 
the Government of Bengal, stating that the Lieutenant-Governor approves 
of the manner in which the Government grant for cataloguing Sanskrit MSS. 
had been applied. 
