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Annual Report. 
[Feb. 
New South Wales :—Royal Society. 
Oxford :—Bodleian Library. 
Paris :—Imperial Library. 
•-:—Anthropological Society. 
;-:—Asiatic Society. 
-:—Geographical Society. 
-:—Ethnological Society. 
-:—Zoological Society. 
Pisa :—Tuscan Society of Natural Sciences. 
Stettin :—Entomological Society. 
Stuttgardt:—Natural History Societyof Wurtemberg. 
St. Petersburgh :—Imperial Library. 
-:—Imperial Russian Geographical Society. 
---:—Imperial Academy of Sciences. 
Stockholm :—Royal Academy of Sciences. 
Trieste :—Academy. 
United States, America:—Geological Survey of the Territories. 
Vienna :—Imperial Geological Institute. 
-:—Anthropological Society. 
-:—Imperial Academy of Sciences. 
-:—Zoological Society. 
Washington :—Smithsonian Institution. 
--:—Commissioners of the Department of Agriculture. 
Yokohama :—German Oriental Society. 
-:—Asiatic Society of Japan. 
Abstract of Proceedings op the Council during 18/8. 
January 3 Qih, Ordinary Meeting. 
A letter was read from the Assistant Secretary, Government of Bengal, 
forwarding a letter from the Home Department, Government of India, 
No. 12, dated 3rd January, 1878, stating, with reference to the Society’s 
letter, No. 487, dated 8th August, 1876, that the Governor-General in 
Council accepts Dr. Rajendralala Mitra’s offer to prepare -an abstract of 
Harrish Chandra Shastri’s Analytical Catalogue of Sanskrit Books in the 
possession of the Maharaja of Bikanir at a cost not exceeding Rs. 5000. 
The letter was ordered to be recorded. 
February 28 th. Ordinary Meeting. 
An application for an exchange of publications with the Society of 
Telegraph Engineers was sanctioned. 
A copy of Scudder’s Catalogue of Scientific Series was ordered to be 
subscribed for. 
