vi Proceedings of the Asiat. Soc. of Bengal. [Jan., 1920. 
Sir James George Frazer. 
Sir James George Frazer was born in 1854; he stands in 
the front rank of Anthropologists of the present generation. 
He began life as a Barrister, but since 1907 he has been 
Professor of Social Anthropology at Liverpool. His great work, 
known as the ‘Golden Bough,” was first published in 1890. 
A second edition, greatly enlarged, was brought out in 1900. 
has published a monumental work on Pausanias in 6 Vols., 
which includes a translation and a commentary. The variety 
of his literary Interests is indicated by his well-known volumes 
of annotated selections from Sallust, Pausanius, the Bible, the 
letters of Cowper and the essays of Addison. He is a Fellow 
of the British Academy, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal 
Society of Edinburgh and a corresponding member of the Royal 
Prussian Academy of Science. 
Prof. J, Takakusu. 
Prof. Takakusu of Japan is a distinguished Oriental 
scholar. He made his mark by the publication of the transla- 
tion of the Amitayur-dhyana-Sutra in the Sacred Books of the 
East Series, He received his education in England and is 
well known for his translation with critical notes of It-sing’s 
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Malay Archipelago. It is a record of the Buddhist practices 
in accordance with Arya-Mula-Sawastivadanikaya with its 
three sub-divisions Dharmagupta, Mahisasaka and Kasyapiya, 
prevailing in Udyana, Kharachara and Kustuna. This is a 
7th century A.D. Prof. Takakusu’s articles in the J.R AS 
Paramartha’s life of Vasu- 
The Hon. Justice Sir Asutosh Mukhapadhyaya communi- 
cated an obituary notice of Lord Rayleigh, an Honorary Fel- 
low of the Societ : : 
in th iver: 
Fellowship in Trinity College the very next year. On the 
death of Professor James Clerk Maxwell he was appointed 
