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February, 1906. ] Annual Report. XXXV 
Other Members of Council. 
W. K. Dods, Esq. 
ge ok Hayden, Hsq., B.A., F.G.S. 
E. Thornton, Esq., F.RILB.A 
Mahamahopadhyaya Satis Chandra Vidyabhushan, M.A. 
Lieut.-Col. D. C. Phillott, 23rd Cavalry F.F. 
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The Meeting was then resolved into the Ordinary General 
Meeting. 
The Hon. Mr. Justice Asutosh Muxknopapuyaya, M.A., D.L., 
F.R.S.E., Vice-President, in the chair 
The minutes of the last Baer were read and confirmed, 
Fifty-five presentations were announced. 
was announced that Mr. M. G. Simpson had expressed a 
wish to withdraw from the Society. 
cancy having occurred owing to the death of Dr. W. T. 
Muiitah. the Council recommended the Right Hon’ble Baron 
Curzon of Kedleston, M.A., D.C.L., F.R.S., for election as an 
ae od Member at the next meeting, 
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awarded the Patron’s gold medal of the Royal Geographical 
Society for his great work on the Geography, History, Archeology 
and political questions of Persia; for journeys of exploration in 
Indo-China ; and for an expedition to the Hindu Kush, 
the Pamirs and the Oxus. For many years, like the distinguished 
scientific man whose lamented no has created a vacancy in our 
list of Honorary Members, Lord Curzon was a Member of 
Council and Vice-President of the Geographical Society of which 
e has been a Fellow since 1888. 
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1898 before 
his departure for India. 
Lord Curzon’s personal interest in the welfare of this Society, 
shown on so many occasions, was an expression of his devotion 
to the questions which itis our main object to study, His address 
to this Society, at the Annual Meeting in 1899, on the value of 
ancient historical monuments in the country, found practical 
expression in his resuscitation of the Archeological Department 
for the gag 20 and study of historical marks that would other- 
wise have been lost. 
f all the  divtngulet men who have accepted our Honorary 
Membership, there is none who has been more closely linked with 
the special ‘problems that form the peculiar province of the 
