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Obituary. I grieve to say that the hand of death has removed from 

 among us many of our valued Honorary and Ordinary Members during 

 the year. 



Among the Honoraiy Members : — Colonel Sir Henry Yule, R. B. 

 K. C. S. I., C. B., joined the Society as an Ordinary Member on the 

 2nd July 1856, and was elected an Honorary Member in April 1876. He 

 contributed several papers to the Journal, including " Notes on the Kasia 

 Hills and People," and " an account of the ancient Buddhist remains 

 at Pagan." In 1855 he was attached to Sir A. Phayre's mission to the 

 Court of Ava and wrote a very valuable and graphic account of it. The 

 Map of Burma which accompanied it was until quite recently almost the 

 standard map of that country. He retired in 1862 and devoted his 

 leisure to geographical and philological studies, resulting in his publish- 

 ing several valuable works, the first of which was " Cathay and the way 

 thither," an account of the attempts to reach China overland during the 

 Middle Ages. This was followed by his well-known scholarly edition of 

 the "Book of Ser Marco Polo." In 1886 he brought out a " Glossary of 

 Anglo-Indian Terms," which was commenced in connection with 

 Dr. Burnell, and is sometimes known as " Hobson Jobson." His last 

 work was illustrating and annotating the " Diary of William Hedges," 

 a work which contains much that is interesting regarding the early 

 history of Calcutta and other early English settlements in India, and the 

 third and last volume of which was published last year by the Hakluyt 

 Society, of which he was for a long while President. 



Nominated a life member of the India Council in 1875 he did much 

 to encourage geographical work in this country, both officially and pri- 

 vately, by his readiness to assist any one interested in such woi-k by 

 kindly help and support, as I can personally testify. I think I shall 

 only faintly express the general sentiment when I say that in Sir Henry 

 Yule, Indian, though I ought more properly perhaps to say Asiatic, 

 Geography has lost one of its best friends and most able exponents. 



Dr. William Wright, Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge, and 

 Sir Thos. Adams' Professor of Arabic died on the 22nd May. He was 

 elected an Honorary Member in December 1881, and enjoyed a cosmo- 

 politan reputation as an Arabic scholar. Among his works may be 

 cited an Ai'abic Dictionary ; Opuscula Arabica, collected from the MSS. 

 in the University of Leyden, and the ^' Kamil" of El-Mubarrad. He 

 had lately been preparing for the press the " Dewan ", of Jarir, and 

 the " Nakaid ", of Jarir and al-Tarazdak. 



A man of genial nature and sterling character, always ready to 

 assist his brother Orientalists, his loss is severely felt not only at 

 Cambridge, where he was best known, but universally. 



