JANUARY, 1914, 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Society was held on 

 Wednesday, the 7th January, 1914, at 9-15 p.m. 



D. Hooper, Esq., F.C.S., F.L.S., F.A.S.B., Vice-President, 

 in the chair. 



The following members were present : 



Maulavi Abdul Wali, Dr. N. Annandale, Dr. P. J. Briihl, 

 Mr. G. R. Clarke, Mr. F. H. Gravely, Mr. H. G. Graves, Mr. 

 K. A. K. Hollowes, Mr. L. K. Anantha Krishna Iyer, Rev. W. 

 R. LeQuesne, Mr. R. D. Mehta, CLE., Roy Bahadur Lalit Mohan 

 Singha Roy, Lieut.-Col. L. Rogers, I. M.S.. Mr G. Stadler, Mr. T. 

 Southwell, Dr. Satisa Chandra Vidyabhusana, Rev. J. Watt, and 

 Rev. A. W. Young. 



Visitors: — Babu Susil Kumar Acharya, Mr. H. G. Carter, 

 Babu Gauripati Chatter jee, Babu Hem Chandra Das Gupta, 

 Babu Dwijendra Kumar Mazumdar, Babu Manindranath 

 Maitra and another. 





The minutes of the last meeting were read and continued. 



Thirty-four presentations were announced. 



The General Secretary reported that Mr. K. N. Knox, 

 I.C.S., had expressed a wish to withdraw from the Society. 



The following gentleman was balloted for as an Ordinary 

 Member : — 



Dr. 0. Strauss, Professor, Calcutta University, proposed 

 by the Hon. Justice Sir Asutosh Mukhopadhyaya, Kt.. 

 seconded by Dr. G. Thibaut, CLE. 



Dr. N. Annandale exhibited a bull roarer from Chittagong. 



exhibited 



pera 



tures 



The following papers were read : 



1. On a Demonstration Apparatus for determining Young's 

 Modulus. By Gouripati Chatterji. Communicated by Dr. 

 E. P. Harrison. 



2. A new Species of Diospyros from the Tinnevelly Hills. 

 By M. S. Ramasvvami, M.A. 



