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Journal in the succeeding twelve years* He resigned this post in 

 December J89J, bnt continued to-give the Society the benefit of his learn- 

 ing and of his experience as a member of the Council. He was elected 

 President in the year ]897. He has thus served the Society in nearly 

 every possible capacity. As an Ordinaiy Member, he enriched its 

 Journal wifcli essays which upheld its reputation among European 

 scholars; as the Editor of Part 1 of that Journal, he maintained its 

 character, and with kindly words of encouragement and advice intro- 

 duced to its pages younger students who have since themselves helped 

 to maintain the high repute of the Society ; and as Pi'esident, he suc- 

 cessfully guided the Society thi-ough a year of no common difficulty. 



Dr. Hoernle's scientific writings are numerous, — how numerous it 

 is unecessary to tell readers of our Journal. It must suffice to mention 

 a few of his moi'e important works. His Comparative Orammar of the 

 North-Indian Vernaculars has alread}'' been mentioned. It at once 

 established his fame throughout Europe, as a philologist of the first rank. 

 It was followed, in the year 1880, by his edition of Caada's Prahrta- 

 laksana, a Grammar of an ancient form of the Prakrit Language. His next 

 work was the Comparative Dictionary of the Bihari Language, written 

 in collaboration with Dr. Grierson, which was commenced in 1885, the 

 further issue, after the first two numbers, being temporarily suspended. 

 In 1888-90 appeared the two volumes of his edition and translation 

 of the seventh Anqa of the Jains, entitled, the JJcdsaga-dasao, in which 

 he first appeared as an authority on the religion of that important sect. 

 Since 1892, he has been principally occupied with the examination of 

 the ancient Sanskrit literature discovered in Central Asia, and the fruit 

 of these studies has been his magnificent edition of the Bower Manus- 

 cript, which has been issuing in parts since the year 1895. It is as a 

 numismatist, as an archaeologist and as an epigraphist that Dr. Hoernle 

 has been best known to the scientific world of late years, and his numerous 

 papers on this subjects in our /o?w?jaZ and m the Indian Antiquary are 

 accepted universally as of the greatest and most material value. 



It is with much pleasure, and with the greatest confidence that the 

 Council have the honor of proposing his name as that of an Honorary 

 Memberof the Asiatic Society, the highest distinction which it can give. 

 While on the eve of his departure from India, they regret the approach- 

 ing loss of a friend who has endeared himself to all who know him, they 

 wish him all happiness and prosperity and further honours, amidst his 

 new surroundings. 



Babu Hiralal Sen, Moulvie Mahomed Yusoof, Khan Bahadur, Mr. 

 R. B. S. Thomas and Mr. H. Luson, expi'essed a wish to withdraw from 

 the Society. 



