JANUARY 1906. 
The Monthly General Meeting of the ecu was held on 
dasrecied the 3rd January, 1906, at 6-30 Pp. 
is n. Mr. Justice ASUTOSH widkadraiietek M.A., D.L., 
ul President, in the chair 
— following members were present :— 
r N. Annandale, Mr. L. L. Fermor, Babu Amulya Charan 
Ghosh Vidyabhusana, Babu Hemendra Prasad Ghose, a a - 6 
Hayden, Mr. T. H. Holland, Mr. J. aes Major D. C. Phil- 
lott, 23rd Cav. F.F., Major L. Rogers LM.S., Pandit Yogesa 
Chandra S‘astree. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
Thirty-five presentations were announced. 
It was announced that Mr. R. O. Lees, Mr. F. J. » Mr. 
W. S. Meyer, Mr. J. Bathgate, and Mr. J. Nicoll had cexteed a 
a to withdraw from the Society. 
r. T. H. Holland contributed an obituary notice of the late 
Dr. W. '’. Blanford, and announced the steps already taken to put 
up a bust in his memory. 
W. T. Blanford, A.R.S.M., LL.D., C.LE., F.R.S. 
The publications of this Society more nearly represent Dr. Blan- 
ford’s sree activity in — than those of the Department of 
Government of which he was such a distinguished member. 
though offically a geologist, ik researches extended over much of 
the related sciences of geography and reret and his work in 
either branch wou ave been sufficient to mark his name as a 
prominent worker in Natural History. 
. Blanford jemned the Asiatic err in 1859, as an ae 
nary Member, and was elected an Honorary Member in 1883, t 
year after his retirement from the tae service. Although 
he was one of the most prolific contributors to the Journal during 
his 27 years’ service in India, his continual absence from Calcutta 
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turned to Caleutta to revise the Manual of Indian Geology, he was 
elected Vice-President of the Society, and during the following 
two years, 1878 and 1879, filled the office of President. His death 
on the 23rd June 1905, at the age of 73, removed one of the most 
distinguished of our members, 
