XXXIV Annual Report. [ February, 1906. 
at any rate we have distinctly lost ground since the days of 
Sprenger and Blochmann; and I trust that under the guidance of 
r. Ross, whose devotion to these studies is well known, a serious 
effort will now be made to retrieve our reputation in this 
direction. 
ave now given you a brief, and, | am afraid, a 
epee account of the work done by the Society during the at 
year, and I have ventured to indicate some of the directions in 
which research may be profitably carried on. Our illustrious 
founder i aaied the bounds of our investigation to be the geo- 
graphical limits of Asia, and he sought to include within the scope 
of our enquiries whatever is performed by man or produced by 
nature. It is manifest that although our Society has been in 
existence for about a century and a quarter, the field of in- 
vestigation has been by no means exhausted. True it is that we 
are no longer in a position to repeat the triumphs of the early 
years of our existence when Sir William Jones discovered Sanskrit 
and James Prinsep deciphered the edict of Asoka. Yet the 
problems in eee, scholarship, both literary and scientific, which 
still await solution, are so numerous and so fascinating, that I can- 
not conceive any adequate reason why our Society should ever 
languish. 
e Chairman announced that the scrutineers reported the 
result * cane election of Officers and Members of Council to be as 
follows: 
President. 
His Honour Sir A. H. L. Fraser, M.A., 1.L.D., K.C.S.1. 
Vice-Presidents. 
The hen Justice Asutosh Mukhopadhyaya, M.A., D.L., 
T. H. Holland, oat ete F RS. 
A, Earle, Esq., 1.C.S 
Secretary and Treasurer. 
onorary General Secretary :—J. Macfarlane, Es 
Honor 
a :—The Hon. Mr. Justice Asutosh dxkchopath yaya, 
. D.L,, P.B.S.E. 
Additional Secretaries. 
. D. Ros Ph.D, 
Natural History Bicester I. H, Burkill, Esq., M.A. 
Anthro a Secretary:—N. Annandale, Esq., D.Se., 
C. 
Joint ania Secretary : :—Mahamahopadhyaya Hara- 
M.A. 
