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Dr. M. A. Stein's request", to published his paper on the Ancient 

 Geofrraphy of Kashmir as an Extra Number of Juuriud, Part I for 1899, 

 was approved. 



Decetuher 19th. 



A nieeiing of the Conufnl was called early in order that the re- 

 commendations undei- Rule 44 of the President, Vice-Presidents, Secre- 

 taries and other Membei's of Council for the ensuing year might be 

 prepared and circulated to Re.sident members before the 1st January 

 in accordance with that Rule. 



It was recommended that Dr. A. F. R. Hoernle be proposed as au 

 Honorary Member in tlie place of Dr. G. Biihler, deceased. 



Also that Lord Curzon, the Viceroy and Governor-General of India, 

 be asked to become the Patron of the Society. 



The Report having been read and some copies having been distributed, 

 the President invited the meeting to consider it at their leisure. 



The Peesident announced that the Elliott Prize for Scientific Research 

 would not be awarded for the year 1898. 



The President then delivered the annual address. 



ANNUAL ADDRESS, 1899. 



Gentlemen, 



As the chief aims of this Society are scientific, and the main 

 purpose of this addi'ess is to review the scientific work of the year, I 

 shall content myself with a brief x'eference to those administrative facts 

 which are fully stated in the Annual Report. We have elected during 

 1898, 31 new Members, the largest record of admissions since 1889 ; 

 and our numbers, after allowing for deaths and withdrawals, are now 

 higlier than in any year since 1893. Fourteen Societies mostly Foreign 

 and Colonial, have applied during the year to receive our Journal in 

 exchange for theirs ; and the number of original papers offered to us 

 for publication has been so great as to cause some embariasment to the 

 Secretaries in respect of ways and means. 



As to finance, the Treasurer's statement shows that we closed the 

 year with a sum of Rs. 147,205-1-1 to our credit. This is less, by 

 Rs. 6,250, than the closing balance of the year immediately preceding 

 (1897), and less, by Rs. 5,849, than the average closing balance of the 



