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was this Society which first gave him the opportunity of satisfying 

 his inexhaustible craving for knowledge, wo must gratefully admit 

 that he has amply repaid the debt by the contributions that he has made 

 to Oriental learnin ", and by the lustre that his name and attainments 

 have shed upon the Society, of which he was one of the most distin- 

 guished in the long roll of Presidents. When the Centenary Review of 

 the Researches of the Society was in preparation in 1883, Dr. Rajendra- 

 lala Mitra was at once selected as the man to write its history. It was 

 an appropriate and happy choice, and the duty laid upon him and 

 cheerfully undertaken was admirably discharged. His eminence in the 

 field of learning was recognised by the University of Calcutta, which 

 conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor in Law, and by Her 

 Majesty the Queen Empress, who admitted him to the Order of the 

 Indian Empire. But his most enduring title to fame lies in the work 

 which he has done, the extent and solidity of which are acknowledged, 

 not only within the walls of this Society, or even in India, but wherever 

 in the civilised world Oriental scholarship is valued. 



Surgeon Major A. Barclay was a man whose premature death 

 was a heavy loss to that distinguished service of which he was one of 

 the most prominent member's, and whose honour and interests he had 

 ever at heart. A man of wide and varied cultivation and untiring 

 energy, it was to the study of parasitic fungi that he devoted his 

 special attention ; and the scientific world knows well the value of the 

 contributions that he made to that obscure and important subject, not 

 merely in advancing the bounds of our theoretical knowledge, but in 

 suo-o-esting remedies for some of the most dangerous and destructive 

 pests of both animal and vegetable life. His kind and gentle disposi- 

 tion endeared him to all who had the privilege of his friendship. 



John Boxweh had been a member of our Society for 23 years. 

 Amid the engrossing occupations of a Magistrate and a Commissioner 

 in Bengal, he gave up his rare moments of leisure to the literature 

 of India and the traditions of her people. The character of his learning 

 was varied: he knew the Rig Veda, and he knew the fairy tale ; but 

 unhappily the hand of death removed him before he could enshrine 

 the results of his studies in any permanent form. But 



" The world which credits what is done, 

 Is cold to all that might havo been," 

 ;i ikI so In' has missed the fame which otherwise might have been his. He 

 was a man of a singularly winning and simple nature ; and the cross 

 i hat murks his grave at Dacca fitly describes him as one cum dortrina 

 turn moribvs exornatus. 



C'h.omj, Sib Ouvi;k B. St. John, k. c. s. i., r.i:., was another worker 



