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With less originality perhaps than either Blyth or Bryan Hodgson, he has yet 

 done more than any other individual for the Natural History of India, hy 

 his valuable Manuals. And it is much to be wished that the series may be 

 completed and brought up to date by some of his successors. Dr. Jerdon 

 was an officer of the Madras army, and although in the course of his mili- 

 tary service he had visited parts of Central India, it was not till late in his 

 career that he had an opportunity of visiting and enjoying the glorious 

 scenery of the Himalaya, which he did with a peculiar freshness and keen- 

 ness of delight. 



Sir Donald McLeod was one of the oldest members of the Society. 

 He joined our ranks in 1837, more than the third of a century since, and 

 since that, has been an un deviating friend and supporter of the Society, tak- 

 ing the liveliest interest in every step that marked its progress, or that 

 tended to improve our knowledge of the peoples of this country and their his- 

 tory. He was not an active contributor to our Journal, but was always an 

 earnest supporter of science, and an able and disinterested adviser on all 

 points. Of unbounded hospitality, which was exercised with a simplicity of 

 courteousness and thoughtful kindness, which led all to look to him as a 

 friend, of the widest and purest sympathies, Sir Donald McLeod possessed 

 the singular power of attaching to himself all with whom he came in con- 

 tact ; a power, which gave him a command over his fellow men, due rather to 

 the influence of his individual character than to the grasp or power of his 

 intellect. He was in fact a singularly loveable man, and will ever be re- 

 membered by those among whom he lived so long, and over whom he had 

 exercised a benevolent sway for years, as a friend and benefactor. The Society 

 will feel his loss as an earnest and enlightened promoter of sound education. 



During the year we have also lost in Mr. C. Home, C. S., a valued con- 

 tributor of several Archaeological papers to our Journal. He came to India 

 at the age of 20 in 1843, and finally returned to England in 1869. He had 

 been a member of this Society since 1863 up to the time of his death last 

 year. 



Colonel Sykes, whose connection with Inctia dated almost from the very 

 commencement of the century, had ever been an earnest cultivator of the 

 Natural Sciences, and as Director of the East India Company a steady and 

 warm supporter of every effort to promote the welfare of this empire. He 

 had contributed to various journals many very excellent papers on the Geo- 

 logy, Ornithology and Meteorology of India. 



From among our corresponding members, one name of high note has 

 been removed by death. Theodore Goldstiicker, who died in Marcli 1872, at 

 the early age of 51, was a native of Konigsberg. He commenced the study 

 of the Sanskrit under Professor von Bohlen, at an early age. He also studied 

 the Hegelian philosophy under Rosenkranz. At Bonn, he continued his 



