Jan., 1920.] Proceedings of the Asiat. Soc. of Bengal. v 
Indian Geology’’ and the second edition of the ‘‘ Manual of 
the Geology of India.” The study of seismological questions 
seems to have attracted him at an early date and his publica- 
and the Gangetic trough. 
Mr. Oldham was a member of the Asiatic Society while 
he was in India, and served on the Council from 1897-99 and 
as Vice-President in 1902 and 1903. 
Sir David Prain. 
Sir David Prain was Curator of the Herbarium of the 
Royal. Botanic Gardens, Sibpur, from 1887 to 1898 and 
Superintendent of the Gardens from 1898 to 1905. From 
1905 he has been Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens of 
ew. 
He has published monographs and papers on :— 
Sir Joseph Larmor. 
Sir Joseph Larmor was born in 1857, and graduated as 
Senior Wrangler and first Smith’s Prizeman in 1880, Sir J oseph 
John Thomson being second Wrangler and second Smith's 
Queen’s University, Ireland. He next became Lecturer in 
Mathematics at Cambridge from 1885 to 1903, when, upon the 
death of Sir George Stokes, he was appointed Lucasian Pro- 
fessor of Mathematics. -He has published numerous original 
1899. In recognition of the high merit of his contributions 
to Mathematics and Mathematical Physics, the Cambridge 
