XxiV Annual Address. [February, 1909. 
The Report having been read and some copies having been 
distributed, the Hon. Mr. Justice Asutosh Mukhopadhyaya, 
President of the Society, delivered an address. 
Annual Address, 1908. 
GENTLEMEN, 
It has been customary for your President, during many 
years past, to address the society once at least during the term 
of his office. It has been, however, my special privilege to 
spirit as on previous occasions. 
The first circumstance, to which our attention is necessarily 
directed on an occasion like this, is the numerical strength of 
the society. For, unlike other civilised countries, we have here 
to maintain ourselves almost entirely out of our own resources 
without any subvention from the imperial or local government, 
except for purposes of special work. The financial prosperiti 
of the society is, therefore, necessarily a matter of the deepest 
concern to all of us. It is a matter for congratulation that 
during the last 12 months there has been a considerable acquisi- 
tion to our strength, and the number of members on our rolls 
that this will prove to be a source of constant supply of strength, 
if we find ourselves in a position, as we hope we may, to 
ide an adequate medical library for reference and research. 
But, although the numerical strength of the society has been 
not merely fairly maintained, but perceptibly improved, we 
have to lament the loss from our ranks of more than one distin- 
guished worker, Sir Richard Strachy, who passed away last 
year, full of years and honours, had been one of our honorary 
members since® 1895, but long before that, in the earlier years 
of his career, he had contributed to our Journal and Proceedings, 
valuable papers on the zoology of the Himalayas. The death 
of Professor Keilhorn has removed from the roll of our honorary 
members the name of a Sanskritist of world-wide reputation, 
who had, during his stay in India, rendered signal service to the 
