JULY, 1900. 
The Monthly General Meeting of a Sig was held on 
Wednesday, the 7th July, 1909, at 9-15 
Srk THomas Hoiuanp, K.C.1.E., D.Sc., F.R.S., F.G.S., 
President, in the chair 
The following members were present :— 
Babu Rakhal Das Bannerji, Prof. P. J. Briihl, Mr. I. H. 
Burkill, Babu Nilmani Chakravarti, Mr. L. L. Fermor, Rai 
Bahadur Matilal Ganguli, Mr. H. G. Graves, Mr. H. H. Hayden, 
. B. G. Horniman, Dr. W. C. Hossack, Mr. C. H. Kesteven, 
Mr. A. H. Lewes, Dr. Indumadhab Mallick, Captain C. L. Peart, 
LA., Rev. A. C. Ri dsdale, Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad 
Shastri, Prof. E. Sommerfeldt, Captain F. H. Ste ILMS., 
r. G. Thibaut, C.IL.E., Mr. G. H. Tipper, Kaviraj Tociadtanati 
a Vidyabhusana, Mr. W. A. Wood, Rev. A. W. Young. 
The minutes of the last-meeting were read and confirmed. 
Sixty-two presentations were announced. 
The Council reported that no meeting was held in June as 
& quorum of members was not present. 
na General Secretary reported :— 
That Miss Cornelia Sorabjee, Dr. E. Houseman, Munshi 
Fone Sahai, and Captain J. H. Rope pa I.A., had expressed a 
a withdraw tein the Society. 
That Prof. Michael Jan DeGoeje, an Honorary Mem- 
ber it the Society, was dead. 
The President announced :— 
1. That Major C. R. Stevens, I.M.S., had withdrawn his 
resignation of membership 
2. That Prof. E. P. Harrison had been aponts a mem- 
ber of the rear in the place of Prof. J. A. Cunningham, re- 
signed ; and Dr. G. Thibaut as Acting Philological Secretary 
vice Dr. Satis Chandra Vidyabhusana, gone on deputation 
The proposal to create a distinction among the members 
of the Society, and of obtaining official recognition for the 
gent as a Metropolitan Institution, of which intimation had 
y been given by circular to all members, was brought up 
for an disposal. 
The votes of the members were laid on the table and the 
President requested any members, who had not expressed their 
opinions, to take the present opportunity of filling in voting 
