xxviii | Proceedings of the Asiat. Soc. of Bengal. {Dec., 1920. 
MAHAMAHOPADHYAYA HARAPRASAD Suastri, M.A., C.LE., 
F.A.S.B., President, in the chair 
The following members were present :— 
Mr. D. R. Bhandarkar, Mr. K. N. Dikshit, Mr. F. Doxey, 
Major R. Knowles, Mr. N. G. Majumdar, Mr. Johan van 
Manen, Mr. Panchanan, Mitra, Mr. Nirmal Chandra Chatterjee, 
Kumar Sarat Kumar Roy, Hon. Mr. F. J. Monahan, Prof. 
Ramaprasad Chanda, Mr. A. H. Harley. 
Visitor :—Mr. 8. P. Agharkar. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
Twenty-one presentations of books, etc., were announced. 
The President announced that Dr. 8S. W. Kemp had been 
appointed Biological Secretary and until next election to carry 
on the duties of Anthropological eeiary in the place of Dr. 
N. Annandale. 
bid aisles ing gentlemen were proposed as associate 
member 
Ma ‘i iaktapeat vive Pandit Vindhyesvari Prasad Dube, 
Gobardhan Serai, Benares City, : Protessor Shahay Ram 
Bose, Carmichael College, Calcutt 
MaHAMAHOPADHYAYA nae Veni PrasabD 
DcBE. 
He is a retired Librarian of the Benares Sanskrit College 
and is a remarkable man. He does not know English, yet his 
knowledge of the chronology of Sanskrit Literature is quite of 
a European standard. It is both accurate and systematic. He 
knows more about Sanskrit manuscripts than any man living. 
He is a great help to any scholar desirous of editing Sanskrit 
works. Many of the Sanskrit libraries in Europe and India 
have got manuscripts through him 
Jommand of manuscripts has made him an —. 
editor and he has edited for various Sanskrit series, such a 
the Bibliotheca Indica, the Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series, ae 
Benares Sanskrit Series, and so on. Though his command of 
Sanskrit manuscripts covers the whole field of that literature, 
yet he prefers works on Nyaya and his prefaces to these are 
always helpful in determining their age and position in litera- 
ture. His preface to the Nyaya-Varttika is a pelaabie history 
of the development of the Nyaya system, both ancient and 
modern. 
Professor SHaway Ram Bose. 
Papers already pubiished. 
(1) F =e - deises, (Agaricaceae and Polyporaceae), Pro- 
gs of Indian varices for Cultivation of 
Somme Vol. IV, Part IV, p, 1 
