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 PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



For April, 1899. 



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The Montlily General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was 

 held on Wednesday, the 5th April, 1899, at 9-15 p.m. 



Colonel T. H. Hendley, CLE., I. M.S., Vice-President, in the 

 chair. 



Twenty-five Members and six Visitors were present: — 

 The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



Twenty presentations were announced. 



Lt.-Col. Gr. Manera, I.S.C., Mr. H. E. Kempthorne, and Major E. 0. 

 Hare, I. M.S., were ballotted for and elected Oi'dinary Members : — 



Rai Rambrahma Sanyal Bahadur, Superintendent of the Alipore 

 Zoological Garden, and Pandit Visnu Prasad Raj Bhandari, Chief 

 Librarian of the Darbar Library, Nepal, were ballotted for and elected 

 Associate Members. 



Rai Rambrahma Sanyal Bahadur is descended from one of tho 

 most respectable Vai'endra Brahmana families in the district of Mur- 

 shidabad. His ancestors were the spiritual guides of the Rajas of 

 Lalgota in the same district. The Rai Bahadur early in life evinced 

 a spirit of activity in research which attracted the attention of Rai 

 Kanai Lai De Bahadur, who availed himself of his services in the com- 

 pilation of his Bengali work on Chemistry. From a subordinate position 

 on the staff of the Alipore Zoological Garden Rai Rambrahma has 

 risen to be its Superintendent, and his chief work, entitled " Treatment 

 of Animals in Captivity in Lower Bengal," is the first of its kind, and 

 has been described in the pages of " Nature " as a remarkable produc- 

 tion. Rai Rambrahma's scientific attainments have procured him the 

 honour of election as Corresponding Member of the London Zoological 

 Society, and it is to bo hoped that our own Society will readily grant 

 him a corresponding distinction here. 



