DECEMBER, 1909. 
The Monthly General Meeting of the Society was held on 
Wednesday, the Ist December, 1909, at 9-15 p.m. 
Dr. E. D. Ross, Px.D., in the chair. 
The following members were present :— 
Dr. N. Annandale, Mr. R. ©. Bannerji, Mr. P. Brown,,. 
Prof. P. J. Briihl, Babu Monmohan Chakravarti, Mr. B. L. 
Chaudhuri, Mr. D. Hooper, Mr. T. H. D. LaTouche, 
Lieut.-Colonel F. P. Maynard, I.M.S., Lieut.-Colonel D. C. 
Phillott, Mr. E. Vredenburg, Rev. A. W. Young. 
Visitors :—Mons. F. de Basaldur, Mr. J. E. Woolacott. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and con- 
firme 
Fifty-four presentations were announced. 
The Chairman announced :— 
1. That the Council has appointed Dr. N. Annandale to 
officiate as General Secretary in the place of Mr. G. H. Tipper, 
gone on tour, 
2. That Mr. D. Hooper has resumed charge of the duties 
of Treasurer from the Hon’ble Mr. Justice Asutosh Mukhopa- 
dhyaya. — 
3. That Lieut.-Colonel D. C. Phillott has been appointed 
a Member of the Council. 
The General Secretary reported that Mr. H. M. Lefroy, 
Sir H. H. Risley and Sir James Wilson have expressed a wish 
to withdraw from the Society. 
The following is the obituary notice of Dr. T. BuLocH, 
Pu.D., which was read at the November meeting :— 
Ernst Theodor Bloch was born on the 8th May, 1867, at 
Christiansfeldt in the Duchy of Schleswig Holstein. His 
f, 
belonged to a colony of gentlemen farmers who had migrated 
from Denmark. In 1880 he was placed in an ecclesiastical 
seminary, in which he passed his school examinations and 
distinguished himself by winning numerous prizes in various 
subjects. In 1887 he entered the Upper Primary Latin High 
School in Halle-am-Siene. His University studies were 
chiefly carried on at Leipzig, where he resided from Easter 
