30 Bihliotheca Indica Budget, [Feb, 



Indian Epigraphy and Palaeography. In the former department he 

 has published in English, an excellent Sanskrit Grammar for students 

 ■which has been translated into German by Dr. Solf. His edition of 

 the Vyakarana Mahabhashya of Pataiijali is a standard work on Sanskrit 

 Grammar. He has contributed numerous valuable papers on Indian 

 Epigraphical subjects to our own Journal, as well as the Indian 

 Antiquary, the JEpigrapJiia Indica and other learned periodicals. The 

 British Government has acknowledged his eminence as an Oriental 

 scholar by the bestowal on him of the honour of a C.I.E. 



Professor Charles Rockwell Lanman, Professor of Sanskrit in the 

 Harvard College, Cambridge, in the United States of America. He 

 is — since the death of Professor W. D. Whitney of the Yale Univer- 

 sity — the most distiuguished Sanskrit scholar in America. He is 

 the author of a very excellent Sanskrit Reader with Vocabulary and 

 Notes, and has published numerous valuable papers on a variety of 

 points touching the grammar and religion of the Vedas as well as 

 Indian subjects generally, which were contributed to the Journals of 

 the American Oriental Society and other learned Societies, our own 

 included. He is also one of the Secretaries of the first-named Society. 



The following gentlemen are candidates for election at the next 

 meeting : — 



F. MacBlaine, Esq., I. C. S., Nowgong, proposed by Dr. G. A, 

 Grierson, seconded by C. R. Wilson, Esq. 



Maulvi Abdul Karim, B.A., Assistant Inspector of Schools for 

 Muhammedan Education, Presidency Circle and Orissa Division, proposed 

 by Maulvi Abdul Wali, seconded by Dr. A. F. R. Hoernle. 



T. N. Das, Esq., B.A., (Oxon.) Bar.-at-Law, Assistant Professor, 

 Hooghly College, proposed by S. C. Laharry, Esq., seconded by Dr. 

 G. A. Grierson. 



Sati9 Candra Banerjie, Esq., M.A., LL.B., proposed by S. C. 

 Laharry, Esq., seconded by Dr. G. A. Grierson. 



C. H. Bompas, Esq., proposed by Dr. G. A. Grierson, seconded by 

 C. R. Wilson, Esq. 



H. N. De, Esq., proposed by S. C. Laharry, Esq., seconded by 

 Dr. Grierson. 



The following gentleman has expressed a wish to withdraw from 

 the Society : — 



W. Crooke, Esq., C.S. 



The President laid on the table the Budget of expenses on the 

 Bihliotheca Indica for 1896 drawn up by the Philological Committee and 

 approved by the Council, 



