March, 1919.] Proceedings of the Asiat. Soc. of Bengal. ccxxxi 
a Mr. H. G. Graves Dr. G. E. Pilgrim, Dr. Beni Prasad, 
G H. Tipper, Dr. Satish Chandra Vidyabhusana, Mr. E. 
two 
Visitors :—Mr. G. D. Allen, Babu Brindaban Ch. Bhatta- 
charjee, Miss O. Cleghorn, Mr. B. Das-Gupta, Mahamaho- 
padhyaya Pandit Rai Jadabeswar Tarkratna. 
The minutes of the December Ordinary Monthly Meeting, 
the Annual Meeting and the February Ordinary Monthly Meet- 
ing were read and confirmed. 
Thirty-six presentations were announced. 
The General Secretary reported that Mr. E. Moloney, an 
dense! member, had expressed a desire to withdraw from the 
ciety 
So 
The General Secretary also reported the ronda of Dr A. 
F. R. Hoernle, an Honorary Fellow of the Societ 
Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Shastri read an obituary 
notice of Dr. Hoernle. 
Dr. A. R. Hoernle, Ph.D., M.A., came to India as a 
professor of ae Jaynarayana Missionary College of Benares. 
There he attracted the attention of the learned world by his 
ptovince to province. This gave an opportunity to young 
Hoernle to master the spoken dialects of these different pro- 
vinces. He improved upon this opportunity later by studying 
them systematically and scientifically. In the eighties few 
studied epigraphy and paleography but Dr. Hoernle employed 
the whole energy of his mind to their study and deciphered 
with wonderful accuracy the Buxali fperaee ay _ ‘His lin- 
great work is his Bower MSS.. written on ‘birch bark in age 
Indian PeeWee of the 4th and 5th centuries A.D., on medi- 
cine, on necromancy and on astrology. The work: which 
appeared in several parts, is a monument not only of the 
