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year will see it through the press. As, however, the Council have to rely 
entirely upon the gratuitous aid offered by already over-worked officers and 
Members of Council for the effective supervision of such important works, 
they trust that delays will be excused. 
Arrangements have been made with Messrs. Triibner and Co. for the 
quick despatch by Overland Parcel Post of the periodicals and Journals 
supplied to the Society, and these now come in monthly or fortnightly par¬ 
cels instead of being collected and sent out by the P. and O. Steamers. 
Publications. 
The publications of the Society issued during the year comprise 9 Nos. 
of the Proceedings, consisting of 188 pages of text with two plates ; No. 10, 
with Index, will be ready immediately. Three Nos. of the Journal, Part I, 
have been issued containing 257 pages of text, illustrated by 24 plates. Of 
the Journal, Part II, three Nos. have been issued, consisting of 174 pages of 
text illustrated by 8 plates (5 coloured). No. 4 is well advanced in the 
press and will shortly be ready. 
The Council hoped that the 1st Part of the Extra Number, containing 
descriptions by Messrs. Moore and Hewitson of the Indian Lepidoptera, 
found in the collections of the late Mr. W. S. Atkinson, would have been 
ready for distribution during the year. Some delay has, however, occurred 
in the drawing of the plates, and it is uncertain when the first part will be 
ready. 
Building. 
The amount expended on repairs to the Society’s premises and for fur¬ 
niture during the year has been very trifling, amounting only to Es. 632. , 
With reference to the erection of the railing in front of the Society s 
premises, the Council have decided on having the present wall altered and 
repaired,' as they do not consider it advisable to diminish the funds of the 
Society further at present. The arrangement the Council had hoped to 
conclude with the Municipality to give a small strip of land to the latter 
in exchange for a sum that would have sufficed to pay part of the expense 
of erecting railings has not been carried out, no acceptable proposal having 
been made by the Municipality. 
Coin Cabinet. 
The accessions to the Coin Cabinet during 1878 were 2 gold, 6 silver, 
and 41 copper coins purchased ; 5 silver Burmese coins presented by the 
Trustees of the Phayre Museum, llangoon ; one gold and two silver coins 
received from the Bajah of Suket through the Foreign Office ; and 3 silver 
and 5 copper coins received from Col. C. Martin. 
