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1879.] . Annual Report. 
A recommendation of the Finance Committee, with reference to an 
application from Dr. Rajendralala Mitra for a grant of Es. 360 for the 
General Catalogue of the Society’s Sanskrit MSS. and Rs. 340 for the 
cataloguing of the Hodgson MSS., that the latter should be sanctioned, 
hut that the expense for an additional pundit for the former could not he 
afforded at present, was approved. 
On the recommendation of the Secretary, it was ordered that the So¬ 
ciety’s publications should he sent direct by post to the Royal, Geological, 
Zoological, and Royal Asiatic Societies in London. 
It was ordered that £80 should he remitted to Mr. Grote to meet the 
expenses of publishing Part I of the descriptions by Messrs. Moore and 
Hewitson of Lepidoptera in the collection of the late Mr. W. S. Atkinson. 
With reference to a communication from Mr. J. Crawfurd, C. S., on 
the subject of the Treasure Trove Bill, it was ordered that the Government 
he asked that the Society may be allowed to purchase duplicates of such 
coins as the Government do not require for their own purposes at the price 
paid by the Government. 
March 28 th, Ordinary Meeting. 
It was ordered that the publications of the Society should he sent by 
post direct to the Oriental Society of Leipzig and the Asiatic Society of 
Paris. 
April 25th, Ordinary Meeting. 
A Committee composed of the President, Dr. Rajendralala Mitra, 
the Hon J. O’Kinealy, T. S. Isaac, Esq. and Capt. J. Waterhouse, was ap. 
pointed to meet Mr. Metcalfe, and discuss the question of the boundary 
railings. 
An application from the Geographical Society of Halle for an exchange 
of publications was declined. 
A similar application from the Societe Imperiale des Amis d’ Histoire 
Naturelle, d’ Anthropologie et d’ Ethnographie, of Moscow, was also declined 
on the ground that the publications were believed to bo in Russian. 
The question of publishing an- Index to Vols. 24 to 46 of the Society’s 
Journal, compiled by Mr. G. S. Leonard, Assistant Secretary of the Society, 
was considered, and it was ordered that if Mr. Leonard will publish the 
work on his own responsibility, the Society will take copies to the value of 
Rs. 500 for distribution. 
May 30; th, Ordinary Meeting. 
An exchange of Part II of the Society’s Journal for the Archives of 
the Museum d’ Histoire Naturelle de Lyon was accepted. 
An exchange of publications with the Royal Society of New South 
Wales was sanctioned. 
