22 Annual Address. [Jan. & Feb. 



and the matter will be considered by the Council. I trust that our 

 Journal will be fuller during the present year. 



Of the papers read at our meetings many have appeared in our 

 Proceedings and Journal, and the rest should be published shortly. 

 The list is a long one, comprising 45 papers, and we are much indebted 

 to the contributors. Mr. Finn, our late Natural History Secretary, 

 favoured us with several of his always interesting papers on Birds, and 

 Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Shastri, our Joint Philological Secretary, 

 gave us much information on subjects which lie within his special 

 branch of research ; while among the papers which I have not noticed 

 in referring to the issues of our Journal, I would specially mention the 

 thoughtful and suggestive paper On Tidal Periodicity in the Earthquakes 

 of Assam, by Mr. Oldham, the excellent Anthropological Notes on 

 Calcutta Juvenile Criminals by Major Buchanan, the Inspector-General 

 of Jails in Bengal, and Dr. Mann's Notes on the Tea Bug, or Mosquito 

 Blight, of Assam, and on the enzymes of the Tea Leaf, both of which 

 record the results of enquiries of great importance to the Tea Industry. 

 Major Buchanan's Notes indicate the marked similarity in physical and 

 anatomical peculiarities which exists between the boy criminal of this 

 city and his social type in the European cities. H^ has disarmed pro- 

 test on behalf of those well-behaved and worthy members of society 

 to whom nature has inconsiderately given one or more of these peculiar- 

 ities, by disclaiming any intention of proving more than that the pecu- 

 liarities are found in far greater number in the individual criminal, 

 and among criminals as a class, than among normal individuals. 



It is my duty to refer to the death during the past year of 

 our Treasurer, Captain McArdle, and our late President, Sir John 

 Woodburn. The Council recorded resolutions of sympathy and con- 

 dolence on these sad events, and a similar resolution on the death of 

 our late President was passed at the last monthly meeting, which has 

 been respectfully conveyed to Lady Woodburn. Captain McArdle had 

 at an early age attained distinction as a naturalist, and his premature death 

 has been a loss to science, and to this Society, in whose proceedings he 

 would have taken a prominent part. The late Lieutenant-Governor 

 was for many years a member of the Society, and he gave practical 

 evidence of his interest in its work by holding in 1900 and 1901 the 

 position of its President, and taking a share in the duties of the Council, 

 amidst the ceaseless labours of his great official charge. In the uni- 

 versal regret at his death none felt more than the members of this 

 Society, who always received from him the genial and patient courtesy 

 which won the admiration of all. You will remember, gentlemen, his 

 promise on the last occasion on which he addressed us, that he would 



