plete, six days at least before the Meeting at which they are to be read;" the contrary practice leading the public to expect in the Society's Journal "Papers" which have never been received. Journal.—The printing of the 21st Number of the Society's Journal, which will contain the first part of Volume V., is nearly completed, and will be issued during next month. It will include, with the exception of the "four Papers" above mentioned, all that have been read before the Society from the date of last publication up to the present day, together with abstracts of the "Proceedings." The Shastri.-At each of the last four Anniversary Meetings your Committee have expressed more or less anxiety respecting the progress of the Shastri. They now have to report that during the past six months (as will be seen by the "Proceedings")* the subject has seriously occupied their attention, and they have the unpleasant duty to state that the labours of the Shastri (who died in June last) have been pronounced by the majority of the Members of the Cave-Temple Commission to be "utterly valueless." + Finance.-The sum of receipts during the past year (that is, up to the 31st October last) amounts to Rs. 6,842-8.0, which, added to the balance of 1859-60, makes a total of Rs. 10,568-9-6. That of the disbursements has been Rs. 5,328-15-0. The present "liabilities" of the Society amount to Rs. 2,218-13-4, thus leaving a balance of Rs. 3,025-13-2 in favour of the Society; with outstanding subscriptions of Rs. 275. Adding, then, the remaining portion of the "Malcolmson-Testimonial Fund," viz. Rs. 2,873-8-5 (now the property of the Society, with Messrs. Forbes & Co.), to this balance, we have a total of Rs. 5,899-5-7 in favour of the Society, plus the outstanding subscriptions, most of which have since been paid. This balance may appear large, but when it is considered that it consists of Rs. 1,942 retained (to pay for the new catalogue) from the allowance of Rs. 200 per mensem for book-binding—a sum, although the utmost that the Society can afford, yet totally inadequate to meet the " wear and tear" of the Library; that the Catalogue, if it had been prepared and printed would have cost the Society Rs. 5,000, and that the printing of the number of the Society's Journal, now in the press, is not included in the "liabilities,”—the apparent balance in favour of the Society will be re-placed by a deficiency. After a short discussion, it was proposed by the Rev. Dr. Wilson, Honorary President, seconded by D. J. Kennelly, Esq., and carried unanimously, "that the Report be received with the best thanks of the See p. xciv. et seq. ante. + See p. xcvii. id. Society to the Office-bearers for their valuable services during the past year." The Meeting then proceeded to the election of Office-bearers for the year 1861-62, when the following gentlemen were chosen for the different Committees and Auditors respectively: John Harkness, Esq., LL.D. H. Newton, Esq., C. S. Revision of the Periodicals.—The proposed discontinuations and additions in this list having been submitted seriatim to the meeting, resulted in the "Fortnightly Overland Times of India" being discontinued, and the "Art Journal" added to the list of periodicals. |