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for some years in the construction of the Danish railways, he came to 

 India in December 1876, and took up the management of a tea-garden 

 in the Sikkim Terai, but owing to ill-health he took the appointment of 

 first assistant on the Tukvar tea estate near Darjeeling. In Europe, he 

 had devoted much of his leisure to the study of Birds' eggs and Lepidop- 

 tera ; in India he followed with ardour the same pursuits and in addition 

 made a large collection of bird skins. He sent numerous notes on the 

 nidification of Indian birds to Mr. Allan Hume, which will be found 

 spread over the latter's works on the Avi-fauna of India. He made the 

 most extensive collection ever got together of the Lepidoptera of Sikkim 

 and Bhutan, of which the rhopalcerous portions alone numbered nearly 

 600 species. In conjunction with Mr. J. H. Elwes, he wrote a paper on 

 the Butterflies of Sikkim, published iu the Transactions of the Ento- 

 mological Society of London, for 1888. He died on January 25th, 1889, 

 at the early age of 41. 



Shams-dl-Ulama Maulvi Kabir-ud-din Ahmad Khan Bahadur was 

 first elected an ordinary member in June 1869, and had long been con- 

 nected with the work of the Society in the Bihliotheca Indica. He was 

 for many years Resident Munshi and Assistant Examiner of the Central 

 Madrassa Examinations, and was afterwards appointed Munshi to the 

 General Board of Examiners, which post he held till he died. He was 

 oue of the Persian Editors of the Bihliotlieca Indica for upwards of twenty 

 years. He also started a press and published a large number of Arabic 

 and Persian works. He was made Khan Bahadur in 1875, and the title 

 of Shams-ul-Ulama was conferred on him a year or two ago. 



MAHAR.4JA IsvARiPRAsHAD SiNGH, C. S. I., of Benares, was one of 

 the oldest members of our Society, having been elected an ordinary 

 member in 1853. 



The Hon. Rao Sahib Visvanath Narayana Mandlik, C. S. I. was 

 elected a member in May 1880. He was best known for his ' Commen- 

 taries on the Institutes of Mami,' and did not contribute to the Society's 

 Journal or Proceedings. 



Annual Review. 



I propose now, as last year, to place before you a brief review of 

 the progress of Science and Oriental Literature and Philology in India 

 and its neai'er borderlands during the year, so far as I have been able, 

 under the difficulties already mentioned, to collect them. I had, indeed 

 at one time lately felt myself obliged, owing to j^ress of work, to give up 

 the idea of giving you an address in this form ; but as I felt that it was 

 most desirable, if possible, to keep up the sequence of these annual 

 reviews I have endeavoured to do what I could, and trust that you will 

 excuse any shortcomings. 



