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and Burn—investigations apparently of a dry and uninteresting 
character, but really of supreme importance in furnishing the 
missing links, in the divers complicated chains of Indian 
History and Chronology. We have had also papers of great 
interest and importance in the field of Anthropology in which 
ome of the most profitabie workers have been Sir Herbert 
Risley, Gait and Dr. Annandale. 
have hitherto confined myself to the domain of history 
and antiquities, but similar remarks apply to workers in the 
field of the pure and applied sciences. In the domain of the 
natural sciences, amongst all the papers published by us during 
the other contributions by Sir George, King as also the re- 
searches of Barclay, Prain, Briihl and Burkill, have consider- 
ably widened and deepened our knowledge of Indian Botany 
In the field of Indian Zoology, we have had a host of enthu- 
siastic workers, amongst whom one can easily recall the names 
of Atkinson, Lydekker, Stebbing, Woodmason, Giles, Walsh, 
Alcock, Annandale and Finn, the last of whom gave us stimulat- 
ing papers on Warning Colours and Mimicry. Of. Butterflies, 
DeNicéville and Doharty have made a speciality to such an ex- 
tent that any subsequent investigator can afford to ignore their 
work only at considerable risk. In the domain of Indian Geo- 
no doubt because the energies of our members in this direction 
In the field of Meteorology, I can easily recall important 
papers by Sir John Elliot, Sir Alex. Pedler, Hill and Little, 
while some of the most important researches of Dr. Bose were 
t communicated to the Scientific world through the medium 
interesting papers on Malaria by Dr. Rogers, which were com- 
municated and published before the foundation of a medical 
Section of the Society. 
