ceexxxii Proceedings of the Asiat. Soc. of Bengal, [March, 1919. 
talents and skill of Dr. Hoernle in deciphering and explain- 
ng technical terms but also of the liberality of the Govern- 
ment which supported him. The medical work in the Bower 
MSS. is sometimes called Navanitaka, i.e. the cream of 
the medical science. It is from the study of this work that 
Dr. Hoernle acquired a taste for the medical sciences of the 
Hindus to which he devoted the latter years of his life. His 
great work, the Osteology of the Hindus. showed how the 
Vaidik Aryans at that remote period of antiquity knew and 
studied the anatomical structure of men and beasts. Dr. 
Hoernle was preparing a translation of the two standard works 
on Hindu medicine and surgery, viz. the Caraka Samhita and 
Susruta Samhita, and it is a great loss to the scientific world 
that he has been called to the other world before completing 
it. For nearly 20 years he was an ornament and an attrac- 
tion to the cent and his ee address in 1898 
still rings in my ears as a supreme effort of wide reading 
and deep isholandiny. How keen the admiration of the pub- 
lie was after the delivery of the address may be gauged by 
the offers he received from various sinbsepeltien to serve them 
in various capacities. He could not however avail himself of 
these offers as he was hapa home after his retirement and 
collecting together the vast materials which he projected to 
work upon in his quiet retreat at Oxford. 
The following two gentlemen were balloted for as ordinary 
members :— 
Mr. H. W. B. Moreno, B.A., Ph.D., M.R.A.S., Professor 
of English Literature, Central College, ‘12, Wellesley tes 
Calcutta, proposed by Mr. E. Vredenburg, seconded by Dr. W. 
A. K. Christie; Babu Sivaprasad Gupta, Zemindar, atest sav! 
ana, Benares City, obs W by re map Haraprasad 
Shastri, seconded by Dr. W. A. K. Christie 
The General SaaS read the names of the following 
gentlemen who been appointed to serve on the various 
committees during 1919 :— 
Finance Committee. 
President, Treasurer, Secretary (ex officio), Dr. N. Annan- 
dale, Dr. Satis Chandra Vidyabhusana, The Hon. Justice Sir 
Asutosh Mukhopadhyaya, Kt., Dr. F. H. Gravely. 
Library Committee. 
President, Treasurer, Secretary, Anthropological Secretary, 
Biological Secretary, Physical Science Secretary, the two Philo- 
logical Secretaries, Medical Secretary, Hon. Librarian (ex 
<seg od. &: Chapman, Esq., D. R . Bhandarkar, Esq., The 
Mr. W. C. Wordsworth. 
