February, 1914.] Annual Report. v 



Asutosh Mukhopadhyaya, Kt., C.S.I. , had ceased to represent 

 the Society upon the Board of Trustees under clause II (3) 

 of the Indian Museum Act of 1910, the Council reappointed 

 Sir Asutosh Mukhopadhyaya to fill the vacancy on behalf of 



the Society. 



At the instance of Dr. N. Annandale, regarding the Cen- 

 tenary celebration of the foundation of the Asiatic Society's 

 Museum whiich afterwards developed into the Indian Museum, 

 a Special Committee, to represent the Society, was formed 

 to work out a scheme. The first meeting was held in April 

 1913 and the Proceedings were approved by the Council. The 

 second meeting of the Trustees was held in December 1913, 

 when final arrangements were made for the celebration of the 

 Centenary of the Museum in conjunction with the Science 

 Congress to be inaugurated by the Society during January 

 1914. H.E. Lord Carmichael was nominated as the chairman 

 of the Centenary Committee appointed jointly by the Trustees 



and the Council of the Society. 



The Council also gave permission to the Trustees of the 

 Indian Museum to make use of the Society's publications, 

 especially the Centenary volume in the preparation of a history 

 of the Indian Museum, and to reproduce the portrait of Mr. 

 Edward Blyth in the possession of the Society. 



Deputations. 



On an invitation from the 12th International Geological 

 Congress held at Toronto in August -1913, Sir Thomas Hol- 

 land, K.C.I.E., attended the Congress as a delegate on behalf 



of the Society. 



The IXth International Congress of Zoology was held at 

 Monaco from the 25th to 30th March, 1913, and Capt.K. B 

 Seymour Sewell, I.M.S., represented the Society. Capt. SewelJ 

 submitted his report as the delegate of the Society and copies 

 of the report were forwarded to the Government of India, Dept. 

 of Education, and to the Indian Museum for information. 



Indian Science Congress 



Referring to the meeting held in the Society s Rooms on 

 the 2nd November, 1912, for a preliminary Science Congress, a 

 Special Committee was appointed to work out the scheme, and 

 the Council accepted the proposal for holding a Science Congress 

 in January 1914 At a meeting of the Special Committee held 

 on the 20th November, 1913, the Special Committee was mood, 

 structed. H.E. Lord Carmichael was appointed to be J-acroii 

 and Sir Asutosh Mukhopadhyaya to be President with Mr. JJ. 

 Hooper as Honorary Secretary and Treasurer. It wa s nnai g 

 arranged that the meetings of the Science Congress be held 



