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PROCEEDINGS 



OP THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



For February, 1873. 



The Annual meeting of the Society was held on Wednesday, the 5th of 

 February, 1873, at 9 o'clock p. m. 



T. Oldham, Esq., LL. D., President, in the chair. 



According to the Bye-Laws of the Society, the President ordered voting 

 papers to be distributed for the election of Officers and Members of Council 

 for 1873, and appointed Mr. F. W. Peterson and Dr, Waldie, scrutineers. 



The President then called upon the Secretary to read the Annual 

 Report. 



Annual Report for 1872. 



In presenting the Annual Report for 1872, the Council, while regretting 

 that the financial resources of the Society have not increased so much as 

 could have been wished, have, however, the satisfaction of congratulating 

 it on an undiminished career of usefulness as evinced by the amount of its 

 publications and the number of admissions of new members. 



At the close of 1871, there were 446 Ordinary members, of these 286 

 were paying (112 being resident in Calcutta and 174 in the mofussil) and 

 160 absent from India. 



During the year under review 32 new members have been elected, but 

 only 25 of these have paid in their admission fees, and have been entered 

 in the member list, whilst the Society has sustained a loss of 28 Ordinary 

 members, viz., 18 by resignation, 2 by cancelling and 8 by death. 



