AUGUST, 1909. 
The Monthly General Meeting of the ae was held on 
Wednesday, the 4th August, 1909, at 9-15 p 
Str THomas eens K.C.1.E., D.Se., E.RBS., F.GS., 
President, in the chai 
The following members were present :— 
r. N. Annandale, Mr. R. P. Ashton, Babu Rakhal Das 
Banerji, Babu Nilmani Chakravarti, Dr. Gopal Chandra cre 
terjee, Mr. B. L. Chaudhuri, Mr. L. i Fermor, Dr. W. C. Hos- 
sack, Mr. T. H. D. LaTouche, Hon’ ble Mr. Justice T. W. Rich- 
ardson, Mahamahopadhaya Haraprasad Shastri, od te : £08 - 
Stewart, I.M.S., Mr. G. H. Tipper, Rev. A. W. Y 
Visitors : Sige G. N. Bower, Babu Bidhu Bhushan. Dutta, 
Mr. T. K. Ghos 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
One hundred and two presentations were announced. 
The President read a letter from the Secretary to the Trus- 
tees of the Parsee Punchayet Funds and Properties, Bombay, 
relative to Prof. James Darmesteter Memorial Prize. 
The ete Secretary reported :— 
1, at Mr. C. Michie and Captain | A. peels LM.S., 
had expressed a wish to withdraw from the Soc si 
That — Sanjib Coe Sanial, fan r Ramessur 
Malia, and Mr. J. N. Das the Khalispur High School, 
Daulatpur P, a Hise, Sei rgely in arrears of their sub- 
scriptions, have been declared difactiols and that their names 
dag be Pog ey in the meeting room in accordance with 
The General Secretary laid on the table the following 
Report of the Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress 
of Applied sya submitted by Mr. D. Hooper as the 
delegate of the Soci ces 
The Gitcas sc Congress of Applied Chemistry is held 
®very three years ; the last was held in Rome in 1905, and the 
gatherings had previously met in Belgium, France, Austria and 
"many. The Seventh Congress was held this year in London, 
and as a delegate of the Asiatic Society of Bengal a short report 
of the proceedings is submitted to the Council. 
